Anna Sörenson,
1983, based in Brooklyn, New York and Stockholm, Sweden. Currently lives and works in Brussels.
Contact: sorenson.anna(at)gmail.com
Exhibition, Solo
Your Application is Pending, Cigarrvägen 13, Stockholm 2013
Suitcase Paintings, WIP Konsthall, Stockholm, 2013
Recording of Material Location, Opus Gallery, New York 2012
Valence in Everyday Objects, Ed Varie, New York, 2012
Marsh 5-9, Collage och gouache på papper, 106 x 113 cm, DeKalb Gallery, 2012
Exhibition, Group
’Your Appication is Pending’, Paulig Residence, Brussels, 2013
Color War, Recession Art, New York, 2013
Alternative Galleries, Galleri Verkligheten, Umeå, 2013
Graduate Fine Art, group show, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York, 2012
Paper :Work, group show curated by Kelly Worman at Ground Arts Organization, 2012
Postcards from the edge, a benefit for Visual AIDS, hosted by Cheim & Read, New York, 2012
Excavation: Artifact, group show, curator Lindsay Aveilhe, Ed Varie, New York, 2012
Vårsalongen, Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm, 2012
No Trend, group show, curator Jamilla James, Steuben South Gallery, New York, 2011
The Pratt Harlem Project, Group show, New York, 2011
Tourist Attraction, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, 2009
Light Club, Galleri 60, Umeå, 2009
MADE, Norrlands Operan, Umeå, 2009
25 art videos, by Galleri Maskinen, at Saga Teatern, Umeå, 2009
Homeland, at Death by Audio, Williamsburg, New York, 2008
Vårsalongen, Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm, 2007
Vårsalongen, Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm, 2008
Grants and Awards
Pratt Institute International Scholarship, 2012
Minimalism and Land art workshop series, project founded of the American Embassy in Stockholm, 2011
Pratt Institute Fine Art Department Scholarship, 2011
Fulbright Scholarship, 2009
Fredrika Bremer Scholarship, 2008, 2010
Anna Whitlock Scholarship, 2008
Petersenska Hemmets Scholarship, 2008, 2010
Residencies
The Wassaic Project, Wassaic, 2013
Vermont Studio Center, 2012
Ed Varie, New York, 2012
Professional Experience
Archivist and art fabricator at Joseph Kosuth Archive, 2012
Research assistant for the book The Reckoning: Women Artist of the New Millennium by Sue Scott, Helaine Posner, Nancy Princenthal and Eleanor Heartney, 2012
Guest lecturer at Hunter College, Focus and Motivation Series, 2012
Painting assistant to Pat Steir, Under the Cover of Daylight, Rivington 1, New York, 2012
Intern at Sue Scott Gallery, 2012
Painting assistant to Pat Steir, The Nearly Endless Line, at Sue Scott Gallery, New York, 2010
Moderna Museet, pedagogue, guide, information and service provider, Stockholm, 2004-2012
Dockteatern Tittut, stage, costume and puppet designer for
Mamma mammornas Ö, 2008, Dansråttan, 2005,and assisting stage and puppet designer in Flyg med mig Tummelisa! 2006,Stockholm
Publication
Participate in the publication Teorier, metoder och praktiker, Konstfack University, Stockholm, 2011
Articles at www.omkonst.com, an artist run webpage for art criticism, 2010
Three full page illustrations in the National Universities Board’s annual catalogue, 2008
Article and illustrations in Dans Tidningen nr 2/2008, translated in to English, published in German Ballettanz, 2008
Education
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York, Master of Fine Arts, 2010-2012
Konstfack, Art theory, Stockholm, 2009-2010
Umeå Konsthögskola, Umeå, Bachelor of Fine Arts, 2006-2009
Parsons the New School for Design, 2006
Gerlesborgs Konstskola, Stockholm, 2004-2006
Basis Konstskola, Stockholm, 2002-2004