ANNA VON MERTENS

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Objects (100 Emojis), 2021
colored pencil on paper
39 x 51" framed

Nature, 2019
colored pencil on paper
23.25 x 30.25" framed

Every text from Joy that includes an emoji (Jun 18, 2016), 2017
colored pencil on paper
56.25 x 45.25"

Mental States (June), 2014
hand-dyed cotton on wooden stretcher
52 x 52"

Mental States (May), 2014
hand-dyed cotton on wooden stretcher
54 x 100"

Structure Within a Cube, 2016
hand-stitched cotton
74 x 74"

Anasazi 12th Century Migration, 2013
hand-stitched cotton
55" diameter

Anasazi 12th Century Migration (detail), 2013
hand-stitched cotton
55" diameter

BIO

Anna Von Mertens was born in Boston and currently lives and works in New Hampshire. She received her MFA from California College of the Arts, and BA from Brown University. Most recently Von Mertens exhibited a solo show in 2018 at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University (Cambridge, MA); in 2023 this exhibition Measure then traveled to the University Galleries of Illinois State University and Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College. MIT Press will be publishing a book on her expanded Radcliffe project in September 2024. Other recent exhibitions include a 2013 Rijswijk Textile Biennial (Netherlands), 40 under 40: Craft Futures at the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Renwick Gallery (Washington, DC) and the 2012 DeCordova Biennial (Lincoln, MA). Von Mertens's work is in the permanent collections of the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum (Saratoga Springs, NY), the Boston Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, MA), the Berkeley Art Museum (Berkeley, CA), the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Renwick Gallery (Washington, DC) and the Museum of Art at the Rhode Island School of Art and Design (Providence, RI), among other institutions.

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