Kevin Mutch is a visual artist and graphic novelist. Originally from Winnipeg, he received an MFA in painting from the University of Victoria in 1990. He showed his paintings and drawings in the Canadian “parallel gallery” scene in the early 1990’s, with one person shows at both Ace Art and Plug-In gallery in Winnipeg, and Access Gallery in Vancouver.
In the mid 1990’s he moved to the United States, where he showed his work in Los Angeles, Detroit, and New York City (including a two person show in Manhattan with fellow Canadian Roland Brener), as well as in Spain and Russia. In 2004 he co-founded the ArtLexis gallery, which was an exhibition space for experimental contemporary art in Brooklyn.
From 2007 to 2017, Mutch served as the lead digital artist for one of the world’s largest music and entertainment companies, working on projects for many of the world’s most well-known musicians. He has continued to work in this field since then as the owner of studioM.
Mutch’s first graphic novel, Fantastic Life, received a Xeric Award in 2010 and was excerpted in Houghton Mifflin's The Best American Comics 2011 and in Visual Storytelling: an Illustrated Reader from Oxford University Press. A French edition was published as Une Vie Fantastique et Autres Histories by Komics Initiative in 2024. His second graphic novel, The Rough Pearl, was published in the USA by Fantagraphics in 2020 and in French by Komics Initiative in 2022. His third graphic novel, The Moon Prince, is scheduled to be published by Fantagraphics in 2025.
In 2018 Mutch returned to Canada to live in Hamilton, Ontario, where he continues to make art and comics.