Template:Short description Template:Infobox person/Wikidata Amy Hwang is a cartoonist for The New Yorker[1][2] and is probably the first Asian woman to have drawn cartoons openly for the magazine.[3]
Hwang was born in Arlington, Texas.[3] She graduated from Barnard College in 2000 with a degree in architecture.[4] As a first-year at Barnard, Hwang started drawing cartoons for the Columbia Daily Spectator in 1997.[4][5] After graduating, she worked at an architecture firm, which she later left so that she could become a cartoonist full-time.[4][5] She has worked as a cartoonist with The New Yorker since 2010.[1][4][5] Hwang won National Cartoonists Society's 2019 Silver Reuben Award for gag cartoons.[5] She also curated an art exhibit with the cartoonist Jeremy Nguyen called "Asian Babies: Works from Asian 'New Yorker' Cartoonists".[6] The exhibit ran from October 4, 2019, to January 12, 2020, at Pearl River Mart, where Hwang held an artist-in-residence position.[6][7] The exhibit featured the works of ten cartoonists of Asian descent, including Monroe Leung, the first Asian American cartoonist to be published in The New Yorker.[6] In 2021, Hwang spoke on a virtual New Yorker Festival panel titled "Some Very Funny Ladies" alongside Liza Donnelly, Roz Chast and Liana Finck.[8] Hwang is mentioned in Liza Donnelly's 2022 book, Very Funny Ladies: The New Yorker’s Women Cartoonists.[3]
Hwang's cartoon style predominantly consists of clean lines, soft gray washes, with pen and ink on paper.[3]