b. 1957
Marc Yankus’s fine art and publishing experience span a period of more than forty years. Yankus’s work has been included in exhibitions at The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York; the George Eastman House, Rochester, New York; the South Street Seaport Museum, New York City; and the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. His artwork has graced the covers of books by Salman Rushdie, Philip Roth, and Alan Hollinghurst, among many others. His images have also been used for theatrical posters for such acclaimed Broadway shows as “Jane Eyre”; August Wilson’s “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”; and John Patrick Shanley’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, “Doubt.” Yankus’s work is represented in the permanent collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the New York Historical Society, New York City; and the Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C.
