John Jude Palencar

Personal life Palencar lives in Medina County, Ohio with his wife Lee. The couple have two boys, Ian and Kit. Palencar maintains a personal collection of skulls and articulated skeletons that serve as inspiration and reference for many paintings. Between Worlds, Canton Museum of Art, 2019 University of the Arts, Richard C. von Hess Gallery, 2008 Laguna College of Art and Design, 2005

Group La Mars Art Center, Exhibition of the American Watercolor Society, 2020 Society of Illustrators, Masters of The Fantastic, 2019 Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Unveiling Visions: The Alchemy of the Black Imagination, curated by John Jennings and Reynaldo Anderson, 2015 Kosart Studios & Gallery, Maleficium: Dark Art Exhibition, 2015 Butler Institute of American Art, 2013 Allentown Art Museum, At the Edge: Art of the Fantastic, curated by Patrick and Jeannie Wilshire, 2012 Nucleus Gallery, At the Mountains of Madness:A Tribute to the Writings of Lovecraft, 2010 Images of Ireland, National Museum, Dublin Gold Medal, American Water Color Society, for The Dark Line, 2020 Gold Medal (Institutional), Spectrum 27, 2020, for The Stranger: The Seventh Faith Silver Medal (Institutional), Spectrum 26, 2019, for The Nights Watch Hamilton King Award, Society of Illustrators, 2010, for cover of Muse and Reverie by Charles de Lint Gold Medal, Society of Illustrators, 2010 Spectrum Grand Master Award, 2008 Gold Medal (book), Spectrum Awards 1996, for Blood Debt Gold Medal (book), Spectrum Awards 1995, for Becoming Human Chesley Awards Winner 2006, 2001, 2000, 1999, 1995