JOHN HENDRIX, born in St. Louis, has been drawing since shortly after that moment.

Despite years of wasting money on comic books, John discovered that one might be able to draw pictures for a living. Inevitably, John attended The University of Kansas to study graphic design and illustration. Rock Chalk Jayhawk.

After working for a few years as a designer, John moved from Kansas to New York City to become famous. John attended The School of Visual Arts in the Graduate Illustration as Visual Essay program and graduated in May 2003 with honors and debt. During his 4 years illustrating in New York, John also taught at Parsons School of Design and worked at The New York Times as Assistant Art Director of the Op-Ed page for several years.

At this very moment, John is teaching undergraduate illustration at Washington University in St. Louis, working on several picture books for children, hoping to start an apiary, and changing diapers. He lives in St. Louis with his wife Andrea and son Jack.

If you would like to look at some of Andrea's drawings of our late cat, click below:

Miss Kitty's Soul Harvest
Miss Kitty's Fun in the Sun
Kitty Curry
Kitty's Night Fight

CLIENTS

Sports Illustrated, Entertainment Weekly, Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, The New York Times, Scholastic Books, Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, New York Magazine, The Village Voice, The New York Times Book Review, Foreign Policy, Seed, The New York Press, The Progressive, The Graphic Artists Guild, Harper-Collins, PASTE Magazine, The Walrus, Retail Traffic, Random House, Field & Stream, Money Magazine, PlanSponsor, SPIN, Boston Globe, Books & Culture, San Francisco Magazine, PC Magazine, Men's Health, Boy's Life, Nickelodeon, Christianity Today, Town & Country, Premiere, Esquire, St. Martins Press, Absolute Magazine, The New York Times Magazine: PLAY, Salt Water Sportsman, Boston Magazine, SPOT CO., Mother Jones, Harcourt Publishing, Farrar-Strauss-Giroux, Spirit Magazine, Rabbid Rabbit, Runner's World, Time/Life, Penquin Books, Outside Magazine, Arrive, LA Magazine, Vanity Fair, WIRED, The Atlantic Monthly, Golf Magazine, The New York Times Magazine, Atlanta Magazine, Garden & Gun, The LA Times, W, PC World, Best Life, This Old House, Associations Now and others...

Advertising clients include- Mercedez-Benz, Travelocity, The NBA, Edward Jones, EMC, Quest, ESPN and others...

AWARDS

• NEWER! Icons & Images: 50 Years of Illustration
• NEW! American Illustration 27
• NEW! Communication Arts 2008

• NEW! Society of Illustrators- Annuals 46, 47, 48, 49, 50!
• Alt Pick 2007 3rd Place Jury Selection
• 3x3 Illustration Anuual 2008
• Silver Medal, Society of Illustrators-Los Angeles, 2006
• SPD Spot Show 2006- Exhibitor
• Parkway School District Alumni Hall of Fame, 2006
• Communication Arts Illustration Annual 2005, 2006, 2007
• SOCIETY OF ILLUSTRATORS: Silver Medal, 2006
• American Illustration - Annuals 22, 23, 24, 25,
• American Illustration - Web Shows 26
• SPD 40 Award of Merit, 2005
• Communication Arts Fresh List -March/April 2005
• SPD SPOT Competition 2004- Exhibitor
• 3x3 2004 Annual- Exhibitor
• Society of Illustrators: Artist Member, 2004


EXHIBITIONS, BOOKS, and JURIES


• NEW! June 2008, "AI 25th Anniversary Timeline" Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA

• Spring 2008, "Artist's Sketchbooks" -LK Publishing- Will include several pages from my sketchbooks.
• Society of Illustrators 50th Annual Exhibition, Feb-March New York, NY
• Solo Show: "John Hendrix: Drawing on Deadline!" Subterranean Books Gallery, Sept. 14- Nov. 12, St. Louis Missouri
•"Then and Now" SVA Gallery, Fall 2007, New York NY
• "AI 25th Anniversary Timeline" Universidad de Palermo in Buenos Aires, October 2007, Buenos Aires, Argentina
• Society of Illustrators 49th Annual, Sequential Jury Member
• Society of Illustrators 48th Annual Traveling show, 7/2006-7/2007
• "Being There: Drawing on Location from the MFA Illustration as Visual Essay program at School of Visual Arts" SVA Gallery, New York, New York -Fall 2006
• "Post Deux" Mark Todd's Post-It Show, Giant Robot 2 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA August 2006
• "Dear Old Kansas" Group Show, Signs of Life Gallery, Lawrence, Kansas 4/2006-8/1/2006
• TASCHEN, "Illustration NOW!- 150 Illustrators" -2005 artist
• IAM Conference Exhibition, "Artist as Reconciler," New York, New York, 2/2006
• "Narration and Markmaking: Contemporary Illustration," Bradley University, 11/2005 & Indiana State University, 2/2006
• Society of Illustrators Traveling Exhibition, 6/2005-7/2006
• "Handwritten" by Mirko Illic/Steven Heller -2005 contributor
• Dialogue: The Fine Art of Conversation: San Diego, CA 2004
JURY: Society of Illustrators Student Scholarship Competition, 2004
• Society of Illustrators Traveling Exhibition, 8/2004-7/2005
• MFA Thesis Group Show- May 8, 2003 -P.P.O.W., New York, NY
• "The Magazine Rack" Group Show-SVA Gallery- New York, NY 2003
• AIGA Book Show- New York, NY 2002
• Blue Cube Juried Show- Columbus, OH- Honorable Mention 2002
• CMYK Magazine-Best of Student Illustration Spring 2003
• CMYK Magazine-Best of Student Illustration Spring 2002
Third Place- National Strathmore Illustration Competition 1999
Gold Medal- Illustration- Brass Ring Awards 1998
Silver Medal-Best of Show- Brass Ring Awards 1998