Anna Plesset (b. 1977, Mt. Kisco, NY) is an interdisciplinary artist who uses painting, sculpture, and drawing to reframe familiar historical narratives and examine how history, memory, and knowledge are constructed and mediated. Recently, her work was featured in New York in group exhibitions at Jack Barrett, the Shirley Fiterman Art Center at BMCC, and JDJ | The Ice House; and in solo exhibitions at PATRON in Chicago, Hunter Harrison Gallery in London, and The Armory Show 2020 with Jack Barrett in New York. In 2016, Plesset was awarded the Joan Mitchell Foundation Emerging Artist Grant. Additional awards and residencies include the Terra Foundation for American Art Summer Residency Fellowship in Giverny, France and the AIRspace residency program at Abrons Arts Center in New York City. Plesset’s work has been written about and reviewed in The New York Times, Artforum, T Magazine, Hyperallergic, frieze, ARTnews, Cultured, Bomb Magazine, Modern Painters, Time Out, and The Brooklyn Rail. She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
Anna Plesset
b. 1977, Mt. Kisco, NY
Lives and works in New York
Education
2011 MFA Painting, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
1999 BFA Painting, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Solo Exhibitions
2022 Various Records, Kenderdine Gallery, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada
2021 Value Studies, PATRON, Chicago, IL
2020 The Armory Show, solo presentation with Jack Barrett, New York, NY
2019 Various Records, PATRON, Chicago, IL
2019 Various Records, Hunter Harrison, London, UK
2013 Observe, Notice, Understand, The Horticultural Society of New York, NY
2013 A Still Life, UNTITLED, New York, NY
2009 Headlines, Jeffrey Boone Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 Women, Land, + Art: Reframing the American Landscape, Thomas Cole National Historic Site, Catskill, NY
2020 ID: Formations of the Self, Shirley Fiterman Art Center at BMCC, New York, NY
2019 HOME/WORK, JDJ | The Ice House, Garrison, NY
2019 Place/Image/Object, Jack Barrett, New York, NY
2016 Though You’ve Hit a Bump, 315 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2015 I am a Lie and I am Gold, curated by Marco Breuer, Yossi Milo Gallery, NY
2015 Mirror Mirror, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
2015 Let’s Be Real, Projekt722, Brooklyn, NY
2013 White House, Galerie Clemens Gunzer, Zurich, Switzerland
2013 AIRspace 2013, Abrons Arts Center, New York, NY
2013 Jew York, Zach Feuer and UNTITLED, New York, NY
2013 The Wall, Marlborough Chelsea, New York, NY
2013 Thanks, Lu Magnus, New York, NY
2011 Small Crowd, Mixed Greens, New York, NY
2011 Graduate Thesis Exhibition, Rhode Island Convention Center, Providence, RI
2011 We Care A Lot, Sol Koffler Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
2011 Break It Down, Chace Center, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
2010 Leaving Room, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
2009 Rotation X: Curating as Academia, Rhode Island School of Design, RI
2009 Between the Lines, Gallery Atsui, Vancouver, Canada
2009 Redrawn, Jeffrey Boone Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2008 Hybrid, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA
2005 The Nature of Paper, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
2004 Gallery Jones, Vancouver, BC
Awards, Fellowships, and Grants
2020 Nominee, American Academy of Arts & Letters Invitational Exhibition
2016 Joan Mitchell Foundation Emerging Artist Grant
2011 Terra Summer Residency Fellowship, Giverny, France
2010 Vermont Studio Center Artist Grant, Johnson, VT
2009 Graduate Fellowship, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
1999 Faculty Medal in Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
1998 Edith and Walter King Stone Memorial Prize for Promise in Art, Ithaca, NY
1997 David R. Bean Prize in Fine Arts, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Residencies
2021 Keyholder Residency, Lower East Side Printshop, New York, NY
2012 AIRspace Residency, Abrons Arts Center, New York, NY
2011 Terra Summer Residency Program, Giverny, France
2010 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT