About

About

Anna Queen (b.1990) is an interdisciplinary artist working in sculpture and video. She graduated in 2013 from Maryland Institute College of Art earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Ceramics. Anna has been a Resident Artist at the Ellis-Beauregard Foundation, Monson Arts, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Vermont Studio Center, and The Banff Centre. In 2015 she was a participant at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.

She has had solo and two-person exhibitions at Postscript Gallery (U-Penn), Philadelphia, PA, Interloc Projects, Rockland, ME, New System Exhibitions, Portland, ME, and Firecat Projects, Chicago, IL. She has been included in recent group exhibitions at Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland, ME, Winter Street Gallery, Martha’s Vineyard, MA, Penn State Abington Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, Critical Distance, Toronto, ON, Knot Project Space, Ottawa, ON, and Skowhegan, New York, NY.

From 2019-2021 Queen was part of the collective, SISTERED, hosted in Portland, Maine. SISTERED is a multi-use project space, providing a platform for artists working across mediums to experiment with, show, and produce work at all stages of creation. She continues a curatorial practice alongside her studio work. Queen currently lives and works in Rockland, Maine.

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EDUCATION

2015: Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture

2013: B.F.A, Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA)

2012: Testing Theories: Models and Prototyping Workshop, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts

RESIDENCIES

2019: Ellis-Beauregard Foundation, Rockland, Maine Monson Arts, Monson, Maine

2015: The Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta, Canada

2014: Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont

2013: Anderson Ranch Art Center, Snowmass, Colorado

SOLO AND TWO PERSON

2023: Interloc Projects, Thomaston, ME

2019: Crane Arts, Philadelphia, MA - LASTRE, two person exhibition with Heryk Tomassini

Interloc Projects, Rockland, ME - PROCESS / PROGRESS 2018: New Systems Exhibitions, Portland, ME - ASSIST

Interloc Projects, Rockland, ME - SET PIECE

2017: Firecat Projects, Chicago, IL - REALLY REAL Exhibitions

GROUP

2023: (Upcoming) Rockefeller Gardens, Bar Harbor, ME - EBF ALUMNI GROUP SHOW

Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland, ME - BIENNIAL EXHIBITION

NADA Curated, LIKE A CHILD curated by Daonne Huff

Dacha Space, Rockland, ME - HAUNTED SUMMER

2022: Interloc Projects, Rockland, ME - FORM AND GESTURE Portland Public Library, Portland, ME - HOLE HISTORY SHOW III

2021: Cove St. Arts, Portland, ME - ELLIS-BEAUREGARD FOUNDATION RECIPIENTS

2020: Winter Street Gallery, Martha’s Vineyard, MA - VOL. 1
Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland, ME - [On Now] Exhibition, LUSH, HUSH

Penn State Abington, Philadelphia, PA - SOM

Sistered, Portland, ME - FREE FALL, curated by Joshua Reiman

2019: Space Gallery, Portland, ME - ARENA, Three person exhibition

The Magenta Suite, Exeter, NH - A SALON AT SUGAR MOUNTAIN

Critical Distance, Toronto, Ontario, CA – PUBLIC SYNTAX

2018: Saw Video Media Centre, Ottawa, Ontario, CA – ALL THINGS BEING EQUAL

2017: Portland Mural Initiative, Portland, ME - POP-UP

Skowhegan Office, New York, NY - SMALL OBJECTS

CURATORIAL / PROFESSIONAL

2023: (Current) Curator at The Francis Hotel, Portland, ME

Jamie Gray Williams, Interloc, Thomaston, ME

Visiting Artist Lecture at Roger Williams University

2018-2022: Curator at Dowling Walsh Gallery, Rockland, ME

2019-2020: Ran a collaborative curatorial project and space, SISTERED, in Portland, ME

2022: Sensing Place, Group Exhibition curated in collaboration with Justine Kablack, University of New England, Portland, ME

2020: In the Clear, Two person exhibition of Reggie Burrows Hodges and Jordan Seaberry, Sistered, Portland, ME

2019: Alley Oop, Group Exhibition, New System Exhibitions, Portland, ME

GRANTS / AWARDS

2018: Ellis-Beauregard Foundation Project Grant

2014: Mary Beacon Bishop and Francis Sumner Merritt Scholarship, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts

2013: Artist's Grant, Vermont Studio Center

Louis Abbene Meagley '13 Award in Digital Fabrication