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 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.