Artist: Anna Shteynshleyger

I'm really drawn to the work of Anna Shteynshleyger. In a way I feel like her Siberia series captures what I am looking for in my own work. She captures a scene in ways that it imbue it with a kind of bleak feeling, a sense that things could and should be better. In her land scapes there are a number of things or objects that have been left by humans and because of that I feel like there was someone there to remember it.

Example works:




Bio:

EDUCATION:

2001 MFA Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT

1999 BFA Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2010 Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL (forthcoming January-February)

2005 Moti Hasson Gallery, New York, NY (catalogue available with essay by Tim Davis)

2004 Museum of Contemporary Art (12x12), Chicago, IL (curated by Dominic Molon)

2001 MFA Thesis Exhibition in Photography, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT

1999 BFA Thesis Exhibition,The Whole Gallery, Baltimore, MD

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND SCREENINGS:

2007 Loaded Landscapes, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL

2006 The Lie of the Land, Murray Guy Gallery, New York, NY

2006 Adventura: Photography of Unexpected Places, Moti Hasson Gallery, New York, NY

2006 New Trends in Chicago Photography, Version Fest, Chicago, IL

2005 Into the Woods, Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago, IL

2004 Frozen in Ligh, Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL

Art Basel Miami Beach, Jacob Karpio Gallery, Miami, FL

Museum of Contemporary Photography: work on loan as part of the Midwest

Photographers Project, Chicago, IL

SELECTED GRANTS/ AWARDS:
2009 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship

2008 Illinois Art Council Finalist Award

2006 Illinois Arts Council Finalist Award

Quote:

"There is a challenge inherent in her pictures, and an invitation: Here is what I don’t have, she seems to be saying. Here is what I imagine you do have, which I will possess, however briefly, from the safe distance of an observer behind a lens. Here I am, forever on the outside, pressing my face against the glass of your life — as you are doubtlessly doing to mine." ~JESSICA REAVES

Review/ Interview:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/22/arts/design/22cncanna.html

Artist Website:
http://www.shteynshleyger.com/index.php

Gallery:
http://www.renaissancesociety.org/site/Exhibitions/Intro.Anna-Shteynshleyger.609.html