New York University
Tisch School of the Arts

John Canemaker is professor and director of the Animation Program at New York University Tisch School of the Arts. An internationally recognized animator and animation historian, Canemaker began making films in 1973.

His body of work includes commercial projects such as The World According to Garp (Warner Bros.); the Academy Award-winning You Don't have to Die (HBO); and the Peabody Award-winning Break the Silence: Kids Against Child Abuse (CBS) among others.

As a key figure in the development of independent animation in America, Canemaker's personal short films are part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, where his most recent film, The Moon and the Son, premiered on January 5, 2005. A DVD collection of several of his films, John Canemaker: Marching to a Different Toon, is distributed by Milestone/Image Entertainment.

Canemaker is author of nine books on animation history including, Walt Disney's Nine Old Men and the Art of Animation. An expanded version of his acclaimed 1987 biography, Winsor McCay - His Life and Art, will be re-issued by Abrams Publishing in Fall 2005.

He is also a frequent contributor to The New York Times, and has lectured on animation throughout the United States, and in Brazil, Canada, England, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Slovakia, Switzerland, and Wales.

He has served as creative consultant and commentator for several DVD releases, including Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Dumbo, The Fantasia Anthology, Peter Pan, and Winsor McCay: The Master Edition.

Canemaker began teaching animation at Tisch School of the Arts in 1980. He has directed the Animation Program since 1988 and was Acting Chair of the NYU Undergraduate Film and Television Department from 2001-2002. In 1989, The John Canemaker Animation Collection opened to scholars and students in the Fales Collection of NYU's Bobst Library.

For more information on John Canemaker, visit www.johncanemaker.com.

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