Anna Plesset is a New York-based artist who uses painting, sculpture, and drawing to reframe familiar historical narratives and examine how history, memory, and knowledge are mediated. She received her BFA from Cornell University and an MFA from Rhode Island School of Design. Recent solo exhibitions include Various Records, Kenderdine Art Gallery, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada; Value Studies, PATRON, Chicago, IL; The Armory Show Presents, Jack Barrett Gallery, New York, NY; Various Records, PATRON, Chicago, IL; and Various Records, Hunter Harrison, London, UK. Recent group shows include ID: Formations of the Self, Shirley Fiterman Art Center, BMCC, New York, NY; Home/Work, JDJ | The Ice House, Garrison, NY; Place/ Image/ Object, Jack Barrett Gallery, New York, NY; and I am a Lie and I am Gold, curated by Marco Breuer, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, NY.
Plesset has received awards and fellowships including The Lower East Side Printshop Keyholder Residency, New York, NY; Joan Mitchell Emerging Artist Grant; Abrons AIRspace Residency; and the Terra Summer Residency and Fellowship, Giverny, France. Her work has been written about and reviewed in publications including The New York Times, Artforum, T Magazine, Hyperallergic, Frieze, ARTnews, Cultured, Bomb Magazine, Modern Painters, art-agenda, and The Brooklyn Rail.
Anna Plesset is a New York-based artist who uses painting, sculpture, and drawing to reframe familiar historical narratives and examine how history, memory, and knowledge are mediated. She received her BFA from Cornell University and an MFA from Rhode Island School of Design. Recent solo exhibitions include Various Records, Kenderdine Art Gallery, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada; Value Studies, PATRON, Chicago, IL; The Armory Show Presents, Jack Barrett Gallery, New York, NY; Various Records, PATRON, Chicago, IL; and Various Records, Hunter Harrison, London, UK. Recent group shows include ID: Formations of the Self, Shirley Fiterman Art Center, BMCC, New York, NY; Home/Work, JDJ | The Ice House, Garrison, NY; Place/ Image/ Object, Jack Barrett Gallery, New York, NY; and I am a Lie and I am Gold, curated by Marco Breuer, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, NY.
Plesset has received awards and fellowships including The Lower East Side Printshop Keyholder Residency, New York, NY; Joan Mitchell Emerging Artist Grant; Abrons AIRspace Residency; and the Terra Summer Residency and Fellowship, Giverny, France. Her work has been written about and reviewed in publications including The New York Times, Artforum, T Magazine, Hyperallergic, Frieze, ARTnews, Cultured, Bomb Magazine, Modern Painters, art-agenda, and The Brooklyn Rail.
