Anna Sew Hoy (born 1976, Auckland, New Zealand, lives and works in Los Angeles, CA) received her MFA from Bard College in 2008. Solo presentations of Sew Hoy’s work have been mounted at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Koenig & Clinton Gallery, New York; the Aspen Art Museum, the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York; LAXART; Various Small Fires, Los Angeles; the San Jose Museum of Art; and the California Biennial 2008 at the Orange County Museum of Art. Her work is in the collections of the Hammer Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego. She was awarded a Creative Capital Grant for Visual Art in 2015 to support her public sculpture Psychic Body Grotto. She was awarded the California Community Foundation Grant for Emerging Artists in 2013, and the United States Artists Broad Fellowship in 2006. She is represented by Various Small Fires, Los Angeles, and Koenig and Clinton, New York.
Selected Press
Teplitzky, Alex, Creative Capital Blog, 2017
Wagley, Catherine, LA Weekly, 2017
Jaffe, Tali and Slenske, Michael, Cultured, 2016
Plagens, Peter, The Wall Street Journal, 2016
Schwendener, Martha, The New York Times, 2016
Smith, William S., Art in America, 2016
Miranda, Carolina A., The Los Angeles Times, 2015
Gill, Jenny, Creative Capital Blog, 2015
Wagley, Catherine, LA Weekly, 2014
Osborne-Bartucca, Kristen, Artillery, 2014
Knight, Christopher, The Los Angeles Times, 2014
Guillen, Bianca, San Francisco Art Quarterly, 2013
Pagel, David, The Los Angeles Times, 2013
Pagel, David, The Los Angeles Times, 2013
Koll, Juri, The Huffington Post, 2013
Smith, Roberta, The New York Times, 2011
Smith, Roberta, The New York Times, 2011
Pagel, David, The Los Angeles Times, 2011
Hodge, Brooke, T Magazine, 2010
Myers, Holly, The New York Times, 2010
Miles, Christopher, Artforum, 2008
Cheng, Scarlet, The Los Angeles Times, 2008
Berardini, Andrew, Artforum, 2007
Pagel, David, The Los Angeles Times, 2007
Myers, Holly, Art Review, 2007