Annalisa Barron (b. 1987) is an interdisciplinary artist based in New York City and Rochester, NY. She graduated from Penn State University with a BFA in Painting and Drawing in 2013 and with an MFA in Sculpture from the Pratt Institute in 2017. Her work has been exhibited at the Cooper Union, University of Rochester, Southern Oregon University, BunkerPROJECTS Gallery (Pittsburgh, PA), U.S. Embassy in Nicaragua, NO/GLOSS film festival (UK), and the Anthology Film Archives (NYC). 'The Kingdom of Back’ (2017) was featured in Berlin, Germany as part of GRRL HAUS Cinema’s 2018 European tour. She served as a panelist for the 2020 NYFA Craft and Sculpture Fellowships and is a recipient of NYSCA’s 2021 DEC Regrant Program/Individual Artist Grant. She has received support from the New York Foundation for the Arts, The New York Film and Video Council, The Parcours des Arts in Hyeres, France, the Rochester Institute of Technology, the AAUW, the New York State Inspire Grant, Penn State University and the Simmons-Jansma Project Renew Grant. Currently, Annalisa teaches sculpture at The University of Rochester and The Rochester Institute of Technology.
About
As an researcher and artist, my itinerant practice is inspired by my observations as a woman in filmmaking and as a blue-collar tradesperson. My work – which takes on various forms, including public art, painting, projecting sculptures, metalwork, and film – reconfigures light, color, sound and space to produce surreal environments built to explore and examine the fluctuation between personal, physical, and hyper realities. I pull from extremes, incorporating surreal world-building and my love of physics and historical research into my studio practice.
Annalisa Barron