Anna Craycroft

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2022 Only Breath, Words EMPAC, Troy NY

2018 Motion into Being, The New Museum, NYC NY
2017 Tuning the Room Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, LA CA
2013 C’MON LANGUAGE! Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland OR
2011 Drawn to Repeating Patterns, Tracy Williams Ltd, NY NY
2010 Subject of Learning / Object of Study The Blanton Museum of Art, Austin TX
2009 Staging the Phenomenal Character, Tracy Williams, Ltd., NY, NY
2008 The Agency of the Orphan, Tracy Williams, Ltd., New York, NY
2005 Intimate Furnishings of Ignis Fatuus, Le Case D’Arte, Milan, Italy

TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2015 Wilson Exercises Fundacio Miro, Barcelona Spain
2014 Wilson Exercises REDCAT Gallery LA, CA
2008 Fiction Friction collaboration with Ian Cooper, Sandroni Rey LA, CA

SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS

upcoming 2021 Motion into Being, Reframed xhibitE, Vienna Austria

To Begin Again, ICA Boston, MA

2020 Visionary New England, deCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, MA

2018 The Live Creature, La Kunsthalle Mulhouse, FR
2016 The Artist’s Museum, ICA Boston, MA
2104 The Ties that Bind University at Albany, SUNY
2013 Champs Elysees Palais de Tokyo Paris FR
2012 Workspace Program Exhibition Dieu Donne NYC NY
2011 Sequential Bodies, Tracy Williams Ltd, NYC
2010 Pictures & Statues, Country Club, Cincinnati OH
2008 Freedom: American Sculpture, Den Haag Sculptuur, The Hague NL
2007 Art in The Parks: Celebrating 40 Years, 1967-2007 NYC, NY
The Line of Time the Plane of Now, Harris Leiberman, NY, NY
2006 Bunch Alliance and Dissolve: Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
Jagdsalon, Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany
2005 Greater New York, PS1 Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
Set and Drift, LMCC, Governors Island, NY
2004 Emerging Artist Fellowship Exhibition, Socrates Sculpture Park, NY
Dance Dance Revolution, LeRoy Neiman Gallery, New York, NY
2003 One Friend & 20,000 Enemies, Kunstochschule, Kassel,Germany
2002 Group Show, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, NY

PERFORMANCES & WORKSHOPS
2017 Tuning the Room, Impossible Measures, Ben Maltz Gallery, Los Angeles CA
2014 Wilson Exercises, Rogaland Kunstsenter Stavangar Norway
2013 Small Talk – Group Portrait PICA, Portland Oregon
2011 Patterning the Independent Behavior of Movement Tracy Williams LTD NYC NY
Pivotal Points Parallel Growth. Collaboration Ohad Meromi. Art In General NYC
2010 How Learning Takes Shape Blanton Museum of Art, Austin TX

PUBLISHED WRITINGS
2017 To Listen Art Journal Open
To Record To Interpret To Comment Art Journal Open
Mapping an Archive from Alternating Positions. Aurelien Froment
2016 We Shall Study Motions of Bodies, Lucy Raven Edge of Tomorrow, Serpentine
The Earth is a Magnet, The Artists Museum, ICA Boston
2015 Building Blocks as Tall as Buildings, ==#2
Practice Practice Practice, OR Matt Keegan, Publication Studio
2012 The Education of Art and the Art of Education. Draw It With Your Eyes Closed
Interview with Game Designer Eric Zimmerman Garage Magazine #4
“==”Ron Eglash talks with Anna Craycroft Garage Magazine #2
2011 Developing Patterns by Anna Craycroft
2008 The Agency of the Orphan by Anna Craycroft
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2018 Scott, Andrea “Museum Listings: Anna Craycroft” Motion into Being”,
The New Yorker February 26, 2108
Carrigan, Margaret “New Museum’s Artist In Residence Puts Her Process on
View”, January 25 2018
2017 Campbell, Andy “Critics Pick” Artforum.com
2016 Ragain, Melissa “Critics Pick” Artforum.com
Cranley, Ellen “The ICA Turns Artists into Curators” Boston Magazine Nov.16
2013 Murkett, Sarah, the Huffington Post.
Hammer, Lauren …mightbegood #155
2011 Demeuse, Sarah “Mystic Truths an Offbeat Revelations” …mightbegood #175
Barliant, Claire “Museum Listings” New Yorker October 17, 2011
2010 Hamer, Lauren “Interview: Anna Craycroft” ..mightbegood issue #155
Ruud, Claire “From the Editor” ..mightbegood issue #147 2010
Evans, Ariel “Anna Craycroft: The Blanton Museum of Art” ArtLies #65 2010
2008 Shirreff, Erin “Orphan Theory: Anna Craycroft” ArtPapers July/August
Freedom: American Sculpture. DenHaag Sculptuur © 2008
Johnson, Ken; “Anna Craycroft: The Agency of the Orphan” The New York
Times, April 11, 2008,
Baker, R.C., “Best in show: ‘The Agency of the Orphan,’” Village Voice, April 1,
2008
Finch, Charlie, “Childhood’s End,” Artnet, Feb 26, 2008,
2007 Scott, Andrea, “Museum Listings: In the Belly of the Beast”,
The New Yorker, August 6 2007
Bunch Alliance and Dissolve, Public Holiday Projects, © 2006
2006 Socrates Sculpture Park , Alyson Baker and Ivana Mestrovic, Socrates
Sculpture Park, © 2006
“The Artist’s Artist: Best of 2006”, Artforum, December 20, 2006, XLV no.4
Murg, Stephanie, “Walking the Green Carpet”, Artnews, vol. 105/no. 2
2005 Greater New York 2005 , ed. Klaus Beisenbach, © 2005, PS1 Contemporary Art
Jagdsalon, Wolfgang Hartmann-Preis 2005
“Works in Progress”, V Magazine, no.36
Heartney, Elanor, “Report from New York 1” Art in America, June/July 2005
North Drive Press Issue #2, New York

AWARDS & COMMISSIONS
2016 The Earth is a Magnet, ICA Boston, MA
2011 Workspace Residency, Dieu Donne, NYC
2008 Commissioned Artwork for DenHaag Sculptuur, The Hague, NL
2005 Commissioned Artwork for Bloomberg LP Art in General, NYC
Commissioned Artwork for Set and Drift LMCC, NYC
2004 Emerging Artist Fellowship Socrates Sculpture Park, NYC

CURATORIAL
2013 Performances and Workshops C’mon Language PICA Portland OR
2012 Guest Curator for First Year MFA Thesis Exhibition Columbia University NYC
2011 Guest Curator for First Year MFA Thesis Exhibition Columbia University NYC
2010 Performances and Workshops Subject of Learning / Object of Study
The Blanton Museum of Art, Austin TX
2009 Performances and Workshops Staging the Phenomenal Character,
Tracy Williams, Ltd., NY, NY

ART DIRECTION and THEATRICAL PRODUCTION
2012 Fashion Editorial for Garage Magazine #3 Memory Theatre of Mind Manifestation
Fashion Editorial for Garage Magazine #2 Fractal Affinities
2011 Video Projection Design Robert Ashley’s Vidas Perfectas Irondale, Bkln NY