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 American Paradise, Jack Barrett Gallery, New York, NY; 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 Light of Winter, Perrotin, New York, NY; Women Reframe American Landscape, Thomas Cole National Historic Site, Catskill, NY and also presented at The New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT; ID: Formations of the Self, Shirley Fiterman Art Center, BMCC, New York, NY; Home/Work, JDJ | The Ice House, Garrison, NY; and Place/ Image/ Object, Jack Barrett 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, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Artnet, Artforum, T Magazine, Hyperallergic, Frieze, ARTnews, Cultured, Bomb Magazine, Modern Painters, e-flux, 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 American Paradise, Jack Barrett Gallery, New York, NY; 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 Light of Winter, Perrotin, New York, NY; Women Reframe American Landscape, Thomas Cole National Historic Site, Catskill, NY and also presented at The New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT; ID: Formations of the Self, Shirley Fiterman Art Center, BMCC, New York, NY; Home/Work, JDJ | The Ice House, Garrison, NY; and Place/ Image/ Object, Jack Barrett 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, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Artnet, Artforum, T Magazine, Hyperallergic, Frieze, ARTnews, Cultured, Bomb Magazine, Modern Painters, e-flux, and The Brooklyn Rail.
