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 mediated. Recently, her work has been featured in group exhibitions at the New Britain Museum of American Art, the Thomas Cole National Historic Site, Jack Barrett, the Shirley Fiterman Art Center at BMCC, and JDJ; and in solo exhibitions at the Kenderdine Art Gallery at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, Canada, 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 Lower East Side Printshop Keyholder Residency, 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 publications including The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, Artnet, Artforum, Hyperallergic, frieze, ARTnews, Cultured, Bomb Magazine, and The Brooklyn Rail.


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

2024 American Paradise, Jack Barrett Gallery, New York, NY

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

2024 Light of Winter, Perrotin, New York, NY

2024 NADA NY, Jack Barrett, New York, NY

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

Selected Press

2024

Velie, Elaine. “A Painting-Centric Fair Marks 10 Years of NADA in New York,” Hyperallergic, May 3, 2024

2023

Amin, Lakshmi. “Your Guide to Art Excursions Outside NYC This Fall,” Hyperallergic, August 29, 2023.

Cascone, Sarah. “Susie Barstow, a 19th-Century Artist Who Hiked Mountains in Bloomers to Paint Stunning Landscapes, Finally Gets a Museum Retrospective,” Artnet, July 4, 2023.

Diehl, Travis. “What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries in August and Early September,” The New York Times, August 3, 2023.

Jaeger, William. “Women rule the landscape – then and now – in Cole exhibits,” Times Union, June 28, 2023.

Kennicott, Philip. “Susie Barstow lived a grand adventure but her art was erased,” The Washington Post, July 24, 2023.

Pontone, Maya. “A Brief History of Art in the Hudson Valley,” Hyperallergic, July 21, 2023.

Velie, Elaine. “What to See at New York’s 2023 Upstate Art Weekend,” Hyperallergic, July 13, 2023.

Whyte, Murray. “Forgotten women of the American landscape,” The Boston Globe, December 21, 2023.

2022

Bennett, Jocelyn. “Five gallery exhibitions to see in September,” Saskatoon Star Pheonix, September 01, 2022.

2021

Brazil, Kevin. “When is a Painting?,” e-flux Criticism, September 10, 2021

Gat, Orit. “What we’re doing this summer,” art-agenda, July 29, 2021.

2020

Petratou, Kiki. “Special Feature: The Armory Show 2020,” Art Viewer, April 9, 2020.

Westall, Mark. “10 Artists to see at Armory 2020,” FAD Magazine, March 4, 2020.

2019

Block, Louis. “The Past Pushes Forward in an Exhibition About Memory,” Hyperallergic, February 13, 2019.

Heinrich, Will. “What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week: ‘Place/Image/Object’,” The New York Times, January 30, 2019.

Vu, Mimi. “T Suggests: A Rediscovered Funk Record, a New Gallery Upstate and More,” T Magazine, July 12, 2019.

“Anna Plesset at Patron Gallery, Chicago,” ARTnews, April 1, 2019.

“Sci-Fi Mosquitos & Smoke: 7 Cinematic Exhibitions Around the Globe,” Cultured, February 22, 2019.

2018

Franco, Josh T. “Role Call,” Emerging Artist Grant 2016 catalogue, New York: Joan Mitchell Foundation, 2018.

Greenberger, Alex. “Brooklyn’s 315 Gallery Moves to Lower East Side, Rechristens Itself Jack Barrett,” ARTnews, December 19, 2018.

Silva, Patricia. “Sightlines,” Emerging Artist Grant 2016 catalogue, New York: Joan Mitchell Foundation, 2018.

2016

Alipour, Yasaman. “Artseen: I Am a Lie and I Am Gold,” The Brooklyn Rail, March 4, 2016.

2015

Taylor, Leah. “Fact, Fiction, Reality & Illusion: An Interview with Anna Plesset,” BlackFlash Magazine, Issue 32.2, p.10. Reprinted on ARTHAPS.com, May 2015.

2014

Gat, Orit. “Portfolio by Anna Plesset,” BOMB Magazine, May 12, 2014.

2013

Balestin, Juliana. “Anna Plesset at UNTITLED, New York,” purple.fr, February 7, 2013.

Gat, Orit. “Highlights 2013,” Frieze Magazine, December 2013.

Keeting, Zachary and Christopher Joy. “Anna Plesset at UNTITLED,” Gorky’s Granddaughter, February 2013.

Lee, Nathaniel. “Critics’ Picks: Anna Plesset,” Artforum, February 2013.

Smith, Roberta. “Anna Plesset: ‘A Still Life’,” The New York Times, February 14, 2013.

Wilson-Goldie, Kaelen. “Rumours & Recognition,” Frieze Magazine, October 2013. 208.

Wolin, Joseph R. “Anna Plesset, ‘A Still Life’,” Time Out New York, February 14, 2013.

“Reviews in Brief: Anna Plesset at Untitled,” Modern Painters, May 2013.