Anna Plesset

Anna Plesset is a New York-based interdisciplinary artist whose work reframes familiar narratives and examines how history is authored, shaped, and shared. Recent solo exhibitions include American Paradise, Jack Barrett Gallery, New York, NY; Various Records, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada; Value Studies, PATRON, Chicago, IL; and Various Records, PATRON, Chicago, IL. Recent group shows include Light of Winter, Perrotin, New York, NY and Women Reframe American Landscape, Thomas Cole National Historic Site, Catskill, NY and presented at The New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT. Plesset has received awards and fellowships including a Joan Mitchell Emerging Artist Grant, the Abrons AIRspace Residency, and the Terra Summer Residency and Fellowship in 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, e-flux, and The Brooklyn Rail.

I recently reread an article written in 2023 by Ligaya Mishan titled “When Women Artists Choose Mothering Over Making Work” and have been thinking a lot lately about your decision to start having children in your early thirties, not long after grad school.

Portrait of Lumin Wakoa, pencil on paper by Phong H. Bui.

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