Painting for a billboard in Calgary (10th ave) as part of Lisa Lipton’s boxing exhibition “Chambers' Ring”

“Chambers’ Ring explores the history, spectacle, and materiality of boxing. Through the lens of media archaeology and process art, the work analyzes the rhythmic active body, how its perception is influenced via the mediation of technology, as well as the rules and formalized structures of game.”

7.875" x 10.5"
48 Pgs
Edition of 1000

A Fashion Fumetti in 3 Acts By Shahan Assadourian, Fatine-Violette Sabiri, Connor Willumsen & starring Carole Methot

Nov 21 2024

Group show Curated by Adam Bartholl, Socrates Stamatatos and Theo Triantafyllidis, a one-night exhibition exclusively on phones.

from Sept 26
to Nov 20

A continued collaboration with artist Theo Triantafyllidis' videogame/performance/sculpture "Feral Metaverse" for which I participated in development with writing and conceptual art. For this show I also contributed designs for the tapestries, writing and storyboarding for the promotional video, and the poster illustration.

On view
Sept 26 - Nov 17
2024

"Onassis ONX is pleased to announce Group Hug, a landmark exhibition of large-scale, site-specific video game installations. Presented with Water Street Projects in collaboration with curators Julia Kaganskiy, Serpentine Arts Technologies, and Rhizome, the exhibition invites visitors to play together and lose themselves in the sensorial worlds of each game through sight, sound, and touch."

148 x 210mm
28 pages

A selection of sketchbook illustrations by Connor Willumsen, from his recent time in Greece.

On view
April 29 - Sept 2
2023

In 2023 I collaborated with Theo Triantafyllidis on concepts for his videogame project "Feral Metaverse". The game debuted at Galerie Nagel Draxler, Berlin, where my original concept drawings were on display

8.5" x 11"
120 pages

"Bradley à Bradley est un véritable tour de force. L’auteur canadien virtuose Connor Willumsen montre une impressionnante maîtrise graphique, dans une histoire mêlant réalité et imaginaire avec en toile de fond Las Vegas, symbole d’une société en trompe l’œil dévorée par le consumérisme, la fascination pour les célébrités et l’ultra capitalisme."

148 x 210mm
28 pages

A selection of sketchbook illustrations by Connor Willumsen, from his recent time in Greece.

5.25" x 8"
8 pages

8 pages

Writing, Layout & Story:
Connor Willumsen
Direction & Photography:
Fatine-Violette Sabiri
Styling:
Shahan Assadourian
Casting:
Michèle Arismandez
Makeup:
Carole Méthot
Models:
Pleure, Henri, Boudah & Caroline

New strip 3 times each week.

8.5" x 11"
120 pages

LA Times Book Prize:
Best Graphic Novel (Nominated)
Ignatz Awards:
Outstandng Book (Nominated)
Doug Wright Awards:
Best Book (Nominated)

Anti-Gone is a vague and expansive ocean world in which every comfort is availabe to those willing to kill their time searching for it - a book designed to chart an outline around the invisible territory that gratification excludes.

8.5" x 11"
80 pages

Koyama Press (ENGLISH ED)
Alpha Decay (SPANISH ED)
Éditions çà et là (FRENCH ED)

Doug Wright Awards:
Best Book (Nominated)

The runner believed life was a linear mechanical process of perpetual momentum endured in activewear, and the impersonator saw it as self-actualizing power struggle for identity and a quest for gold. Burdened by their own success and an aimless desire, they embark on an odyssey that takes them from the cavernous buffet halls of the near future Las Vegas strip, and into the a scorched earth stretched out before them.

6.5" x 8.25"
18/192 Pages
Edited by Wren McDonald

A genre-based comics anthology: Cyberpunk. Featuring comics by Freddy Carrasco, Sophia Foster-Dimino, Kelly K, Giannis Milonogiannis, Mushbuh, Jonathan Djob Nkondo & Tonči Zonjić. Cover by Freddy Carrasco.

11" x 14"
13/168 pages
Edited by Sammy Harkham

Eisner Award
Best Anthology (Nominated)

Curated by cartoonist Sammy Harkham, KE10 features work by R. Crumb, Dash Shaw, David Collier, Anouk Ricard, C.F., Jason Murphy, Blutch, Shary Flenniken, Johnny Ryan, John Pham, Ron Regé Jr., Simon Hanselmann, Anna Haifisch, Ivan Brunetti, David Amram, Helge Reumann, Frank King, Steve Weissman, Aisha Franz, Leon Sadler, Adam Buttrick, Archer Prewitt, Connor Willumsen, Bendik Kaltenborn, Will Sweeney, Rick Altergott, Kim Deitch, Marc Bell, and Harkham himself.

Art Directed by Nathan Huang

Eisner Award:
Best Short Story (Nominated)

"I Needed The Discounts" is a full tabloid sized comic printed in the January 5th 2020 edition of The New York Times as part of "The Privacy Project", a section of original art and writting covering the subject of tech and privacy. A web version was also made available on nytimes.com.

A full tabloid comic that appears monthly in Frank Santoro's Hype Pup zine.

60 Pages

Doug Wright Awards:
Best Micro-Published Book

Painting for a billboard in Calgary (10th ave) as part of Lisa Lipton’s boxing exhibition “Chambers Ring” “CHAMBER’S RING — An immersive exhibition by Lisa Lipton that transforms Truck Contemporary Art into a living, breathing training ground. * ”

On view
Sept 26 - Nov 17
2024

"Onassis ONX is pleased to announce Group Hug, a landmark exhibition of large-scale, site-specific video game installations. Presented with Water Street Projects in collaboration with curators Julia Kaganskiy, Serpentine Arts Technologies, and Rhizome, the exhibition invites visitors to play together and lose themselves in the sensorial worlds of each game through sight, sound, and touch."

Excerpt

Illustration and Packaging Design in Collaboration with Art Director Eric Skillman

Illustration and Packaging Design in Collaboration with Art Director Eric Skillman

11" x 17"
with Adam Abouaccar

Cinema1999 is a 35mm film screening series produced and conceived by Adam Abouaccar and presented at Bar Le Ritz in Montreal, QC. For each screening I prodcued a limited edition silk screen print.

Illustration and Packaging Design in Collaboration with Art Director Eric Skillman

Painting for a billboard in Calgary (10th ave) as part of Lisa Lipton’s boxing exhibition “Chambers Ring”

“Chambers’ Ring explores the history, spectacle, and materiality of boxing. Through the lens of media archaeology and process art, the work analyzes the rhythmic active body, how its perception is influenced via the mediation of technology, as well as the rules and formalized structures of game.”

Nov 21 2024

Group show Curated by Adam Bartholl, Socrates Stamatatos and Theo Triantafyllidis, a one-night exhibition exclusively on phones.

from Sept 26
to Nov 20

A continued collaboration with artist Theo Triantafyllidis' videogame/performance/sculpture "Feral Metaverse" for which I participated in development with writing and conceptual art. For this show I also contributed designs for the tapestries, writing and storyboarding for the promotional video, and the poster illustration.

On view
April 29 - Sept 2
2023

In 2023 I collaborated with Theo Triantafyllidis on concepts for his videogame project "Feral Metaverse". The game debuted at Galerie Nagel Draxler, Berlin, where my original concept drawings were on display

Sundance Film Festival
New Frontier Official Selection

"Anti-Gone is a new mixed reality performance by inspired the comic book of the same name by Connor Willumsen. Anti-Gone incorporates live performance with real time simulation to explore the social impacts of technology, privilege and the beginnings and ends of worlds."

"As part of Parallel Lines, Connor Willumsen’s project consists of live portrait sessions over video chat with other home-ridden individuals from around the world. His drawings are made simply and directly, allowing him to only draw what he can see on screen. Bizarre glitches, visual artifacts, and low resolutions are incorporated into the drawing process, resulting in a somewhat deformed but accurate depiction of a video chat."

In collaboration with New School Policy and Design for Outer Space

In collaboration with other artists and writers, this is a video in which each produces a short segment. Mine is a collection of free-form digital drawings rendered with out of date early 3D sofrware over decomposed sound effects.