Annick Ibsen

Annick Ibsen is a sculptor and painter. Born in Paris and a resident of Des Moines for the past 15 years, she also experienced a breadth of cultures living in Africa and Asia. Her sculptures displace the viewer's expectations to unveil the actual. In her search for realism, she also establishes connections between figurative and sculptural art forms with mixed media paintings that explore negative space.

Perhaps sculpture is not the form that fills space, but how the form opens space in relationship to it, including in the mind of the viewer.

Masters of Fine Arts student at MIU, IA due to graduate January 2027
Resident Artist at the Ankeny Art Center, Ankeny, IA, 2015-2016
Des Moines Art Center Ceramics, Des Moines, IA, continuing education 2008-2001, 2013
ESCP Business School Grande Ecole, Masters degree in Management, 1989
Eureka College, Eureka, IL, BA, 1987

MUSEUM EXHIBITS
Charles H. MacNider Art Museum, Mason City, IA, Aug- Oct 2025
Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Land/Scape juried exhibition, IA, Feb-May 2024
Rock Island Gallery in conjunction with the Figge Museum and Quad City Arts, “Finding Inspiration: Monet to Matisse” juried exhibit, Gallery, Rock Island, IL, 2019
Blanden Museum of Art, Oak Hill Juried Exhibit, 2017
Des Moines Art Center Gala Exhibition “Built” - Des Moines, IA - 2016
Ankeny Art Center, solo exhibit, “JAZZ”, Ankeny, IA, 2016
Fisher Center for the Arts, solo exhibit, Marshalltown, IA, 2016
San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, 21st San Angelo National Ceramic Competition, TX, 2016

SELECT GALLERY and JURIED EXHIBITS
Surreal Salon 16, juried by Beth Cavener Stichter, Baton Rouge Gallery, LA, Jan 2024
Moberg Gallery solo show, Des Moines, IA, 2023
Principal Financial Group Exhibit, Des Moines, IA, 2020-2021
Warren Cultural Center solo show, Greenfield, IA, 2018
Black Earth Gallery, Sawdust & Shards, Cedar Rapids, IA, 2018
Heritage Gallery Invitational, Des Moines, IA, 2016
ARC Gallery juried exhibition, It Figures: The Body in Art, Chicago, IL, 2016
BNIM Architects installation, “The Three Graces”, Des Moines, IA, 2013-2014
Sioux Falls Art Walk, South Dakota, 2012-2013...