Eleanna Anagnos

Eleanna Anagnos

Brooklyn, NY, United States

About Eleanna Anagnos

Eleanna Anagnos (1980) is an abstract visual artist who creates work which shapes perceptions of light & space. Her work challenges the spectator to pause, reflect and reconsider their sensory perception. She achieves this by visually manipulating negative and positive space.

Education:

Temple University, Tyler School of Art, MFA Painting, Elkins Park, PA, 2005
Kenyon College, BA Studio Art with Concentration in Women’s and Gender Studies, Gambier, OH, 2002
(Graduate with Honors and Distinction)

Events:

+ I am currently a resident at Yaddo! www.yaddo.org

+ I am a Co-Director of the Brooklyn-based artist collective and curatorial project space, Ortega y Gasset Projects. http://oygprojects.com

+ Art In America (Feb. 2017) reviewed the exhibition I curated! A solo debut of Monica Palma's work at Ortega y Gasset Projects.

+ I was a BAU Institute Fellow at the Camargo Foundation in Cassis France in August, 2016.

+ In June 2015, I curated the exhibition, Love Child, which highlights the dialogue and exchange that takes place when two creative people make something together. A block-buster group of artists were exhibited.
highlights the dialogue and exchange that takes place when two creative people make something together.
http://oygprojects.com/love-child/

Exhibitions:

2017
Spring Break Art Show, Black Mirror, curated by Kristen Racaniello, New York, NY (forthcoming)

2016
Automat, Philadelphia, PA
Trestle Contemporary, Plus One, Brooklyn, NY
Ground Floor Gallery, Portal, Brooklyn, NY
E.Tay Gallery, Verblist, curated by Mark Joshua Epstein, New York, NY
Pop-up at Art Helix, A Decalogue of Tenebrous Luminaries, organized by William Norton, Brooklyn, NY
Ess Ef Eff, Grow(th), curated by Kristen Racaniello, Brooklyn, NY
Proto Gallery, Newman Plus One, Hoboken, NJ
Maass Gallery, Purchase College, Physical Painting, curated by Jennifer Samet, Westchester, NY

2015
Satellite Contemporary, Satellite Squared, curated by Zahar Vaks and Nicole Langille, LasVegas, NV
Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 12x12, Salt Lake City, UT
Trestle Projects, GAME GENIE, curated by Polly Shindler and Will Hutnick, Brooklyn, NY

2014
68 Projects, Person, Place or Thing: Works on Paper, curated by Quang Bao, Berlin, Germany
Sidecar Gallery, EARTHTWERKS and other celestial familiars, Hammond, IN
Rema Hort Mann Foundation, LA Initiative Benefit Art Auction, organized by Stanley Hollander, Los Angeles, CA
Bushwick Open Studios 2014, Do it yourself, curated by Julie Alexander, Brooklyn, NY

2013
Sardine, Special Guests, Brooklyn, NY
The Diplomat, November show, curated by Jonathan Torres, Brooklyn, NY
President Clinton Projects, Location! Location! Location!, curated by Sun You, Brooklyn, NY
Radius, Horwitz Hall Gallery, curated by Marcella Hackbardt, Gambier, OH
Three Legged Dog, Art Lottery, Issue Project Room Benefit, New York, NY

2012
Sardine, Peaces, curated by Jon Lutz, Brooklyn, NY
DIE AUSSTELLUNGSSTRASSE, “To keep us in the dark ages of color”, curated by Elsa Koenig, Vienna, Austria
Consulate General of France, American Friends of the Louvre, Young Patrons Circle's Annual Benefit, New York, NY

2011
CENTER, Gucci, curated by The 62nd Dimension, Milwaukee, WI
Samson Projects, Chain-Letter, Boston, MA
South Bend Museum of Art, Biennial 26, Juried by Betsy Carpenter of the Walker Art Center, South Bend, IN
Rebekah Templeton Contemporary Art, Spotlights, Juried by Jon Lutz, Philadelphia, PA
Marianne Boesky, BWYlove, Rema Hort Mann Foundation, New York

2009
(solo*) CAMEO, Eleanna Anagnos, Brooklyn, NY
Galerie Vaclava Spaly, Symbio, Prague, Czech Republic
National Hellenic Museum, Neolaia Pathos, Chicago, IL
Brooklyn Academy of Music, Annual BAMart Silent Auction, Brooklyn, NY
Kouros Gallery, Accrochage, New York, NY

2008
Kouros Gallery, Accrochage, New York, NY

2007
Kouros Gallery, Accrochage, New York, NY
Sam Quinn Gallery, Beyond, Philadelphia, PA

2006
(solo*) TAI Gallery, The Actors Institute, Kefi, New York, NY
Avery Art Center, Fluxus, Statesboro, GA

2005
Tower Investments, Art on the Walk, Philadelphia, PA
(solo*) Temple Gallery, Kefi, MFA Thesis Exhibition, Philadelphia, PA

2004
Temple Rome Gallery, MFA Candidates, Rome, Italy

2002
(solo*) Olin Gallery, Underneath, BA Thesis Exhibition, Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio

RESIDENCY PROGRAMS
2017
Yaddo Fellow, Saratoga Springs, NY

2016
BAU at Camargo Fellow, Cassis, France

2013
The Old American Can Factory, Brooklyn, NY

2011
Anderson Ranch Residency, Snowmass Village, CO

2009
Atlantic Center for the Arts Residency, New Smyrna, FL

2008- 2010
Chashama Studio Program, New York, NY