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ANNA MAYER
lives in Houston, TX
SELECT SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 Jung Center, Houston, TX, Pale Clay (Influence and Contagion)
2021 Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, TX, Forms of Inheritance
2020 Visitor Welcome Center, CA, Funeral Fringe
2019 A-B Projects, Los Angeles, CA, Seep Fields
2018 AWHRHWAR, Los Angeles, CA, As I Say Dying
2018 Adjunct Positions, Los Angeles, CA, Admit, Emit
2018 University of Houston MD Anderson Library, Reguarding Room*
2015 Occidental College Weingart Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, With Respect To*
2014 Glasgow International (biennial), Scotland, Openaries
2013 Planthouse, New York, Try Them or Free Them
2013 Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock, Los Angeles, CA, Permissionary Work*
2012 Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Vatic Link
2010 Sea and Space Explorations, The People Concerned, Los Angeles, CA
2009 Dan Graham, Emodes of Research, Los Angeles, CA*
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 Greenwich House Pottery, New York, NY [forthcoming]
2025 Galveston Artist Residency, Galveston, TX, Residents’ Exhibition
2024 Moody Center for the Arts, Houston, TX, Resonant Earth: Contemporary Perspectives on Land and Body
2023 Blaffer Art Museum, Houston, TX, Intimate confession is a project
2023 Jundt Art Museum, Gonzaga University (WA), Facing Fire
2022 Los Angeles Valley College Art Gallery (CA), We Became the River on Fire
2022 St. George Art Museum (UT), Facing Fire
2022 Artpace, San Antonio, TX, Carbonate of Copper
2021 NCECA Annual: Social Recession invited artist, curated by Shannon Stratton
2020 Inman Gallery, Houston, TX, Animal Crossings
2020 California Museum of Photography, Facing Fire: Art, Wildfire, and the End of Nature in the New West, Riverside, CA
2020 Jonathan Hopson, Houston TX, Tove & Melton & Lisa & Gareth & Charles & &c.
2019 Wilding Cran, LA On Fire, Los Angeles, CA
2019 Front Gallery, Houston TX, Spree
2019 Ronald H. Silverman Fine Arts Gallery at CSULA, Makings
2018 Sam Francis Gallery at Crossroads School for Arts and Sciences, Introspection: Stories Beneath the Surface
2017 University of Houston galleries, Go Forth from Houston: Women in the Arts Take Action
2016 Ballroom Marfa, TX, Grey Goo Gardens
2016 LAND at the Gamble House, Pasadena, CA, On the Verge of an Image
2016 Ms Barbers, Los Angeles, CA, Let Love Burn in All the Lamps
2016 metro pcs, Los Angeles, CA, Mushrooms & Honey, curated by Nick Kramer
2016 SideCar Gallery, Hammond, IN, Ugly Feelings, curated by Karolina Gnatowski
2015 Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA, After Victor Papanek: The Future Is Not What It Used to Be*
2015 Storefront Lab, San Francisco, CA, Indigo Mind: Celebrating the Work of Oliver Sacks
2014 Galerie Catherine Bastide, Brussels, Belgium, Forever Young
2014 Commonwealth & Council, Los Angeles, CA, Presents
2014 Machine Project, Los Angeles, CA, Out of Sight, Out of Mind
2014 High Desert Test Sites and Monte Vista Projects, 29 Palms, CA, Spectacular Subdivision
2013 Commonwealth & Council, LA, CA, Volitionaries, two-person exhibition with Rosha Yaghmai
2013 Luckman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Ground Truths
2013 University Art Museum, California State University Long Beach, CA, Chockablock
2012 Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA, Venice Beach Biennial
2012 Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA, Two-Headed Monster*
2012 Kendall Koppe, Glasgow, Scotland, Laying down and kissing the love in the mist
2011 Cypress College Art Gallery, Cypress, CA, The Quotidian World*
2010 A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, At Her Age
2010 Cerritos College Art Gallery, Norwalk, CA, Inscription: Text-Image-Action
2010 Roots and Culture, Chicago, IL, Ox-Bow Centennial Show: The Contemporary at Ox- Bow
2009 ThreeWalls, Chicago, IL, No Other One Is*
2009 Fellows of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, Performing Economies*
2008 Karen Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Mystery of the Magic Clock
2007 Klaus Von Nichtssagend, New York, NY, Signs of Some Precarity
2007 Calarts Feminist Project, Valencia, CA, Exquisite Acts & Everyday Rebellions
SELECT WORKSHOPS, LIVE PERFORMANCES & PANEL DISCUSSIONS
2025 No Doubt Will Weather mobile kiln firing, Basket Books, Houston, TX
2025 Art in the Face of the Climate Crisis, Moody Center for the Arts, Houston, TX
2021 Going to the Meadow, ArtYard, NJ
2021 Ceramics + Geologic Time panel discussion, with Kahlil Robert Irving, Courtney M. Leonard, and Dr. Mika Tosca
2021 Conversation with James C. Watkins at Houston Center for Contemporary Craft
2019 Raku/Obvara Workshop, Westridge School, Pasadena, CA
2018 Powerful Vulnerable video screening, Aurora Picture Show, Houston, TX
2018 Regarding Room workshops, University of Houston, TX*
2016 Finger Casting, Rob Pruitt’s Flea Market, Los Angeles, CA
2015 Miniatures Workshop, Occidental College, multiple sessions*
2014 Ceramics Workshops, Glasgow, Scotland (for Glasgow Biennial)
2014 As We Had All Been Flesh Together, Now We Were Mist, KCHUNG @ the Hammer Museum
2014 Wearing Witness, CUADRO/Rubin Center for the Visual Arts, El Paso, TX*
2013 Phantom Geographies: Superimpositions of Memory and Place, West Hollywood Library, CA
2012 Negative Sessions, part of The Bureau of Experimental Speech and Holy Theses (BESHT), Pomona College Museum of Art, Pomona, CA
2012 Remarks, Human Resources, Los Angeles, CA
2011 Study for Durational Performance, OccupyLA, Los Angeles, CA*
2011 WORD THE WORD (ongoing series), Experimental Meditation Center, Art Los Angeles Fair, Verse | Chorus | Verse, curated by Liz Glynn
2010 WORD THE WORD (ongoing series), Experimental Meditation Center, Los Angeles, CA
2010 Watched Pot, Eternal Telethon at Machine Project, Los Angeles, CA
2010 Live One Here, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2010 Diamonds in the Sky screening, Ecstatic, Brooklyn, NY
2009 Things That Have Once Been in Contact, Ben Russell, Chicago, IL*
2008 From Brain to Labia and Back Again, The Lounge at REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA
2008 Swoon Soon Suit, Wildness at the Silver Platter, Los Angeles, CA*
*indicates the work of CamLab, my collaboration with Jemima Wyman begun in 2005
GRANTS/AWARDS
-Guggenheim Fellowship in Fine Arts, 2025
-Houston Artadia Award, 2024
-Smithsonian Artist Research Grant, 2023-2024
-The Wendy Wagner Foundation 2023 Spring Creative Award
-University of Houston Division of Research Small Grant, 2022
-MMI Teaching Prize for Innovative Uses of Media (funded by UH Media and the Moving Image), 2021
-McGovern College of the Arts Culturally Inclusive Curriculum Grant, 2021
-University of Houston Division of Research Small Grant, 2019
-Let Creativity Happen Grant awarded by the City of Houston and Houston Arts Alliance, 2019
-Innovation Grant awarded by the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts, Houston, TX, 2018
-New Faculty Research Grant, University of Houston, 2018
-The Woman's Building and Metabolic Studio's Special Projects in Archiving Fellowship, 2017*
-CalArts Scholarship, 2005 and 2006
-CAAP grant, Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, 2005
RESIDENCIES
-Galveston Artist Residency, TX, 2024-25
-Seeing Fire – Perspectives through Art and Science, research residency project with scientists from the Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society (UK), 2021
-Going to the Meadow residency at ArtYard, Frenchtown, NJ, 2021
-Wanlass Artist in Residence, Occidental College, 2015
-Artist in Resident at CUADRO/Rubin Center for the Visual Arts, El Paso, TX, 2014*
-Chloe Flores Residency, 2013
-ThreeWalls Residency, 2009
-Ox-Bow School of Painting and Sculpture Professional Artist in Residency, 2005
-Ox-Bow School Painting and Sculpture Lenore Tawney Summer Fellowship, 2003
RECENT INVITED LECTURES
University of California, Berkeley (2025)
Rhode Island School of Design (2023)
University of Colorado, Colorado Springs (2023)
California State University Los Angeles (2022)
De Montfort University, Leicester, UK (2021)
Dartmouth College (2021)
Rice University (2024, 2021)
Cooper Union Climate Group (2020)
Greenwich House Pottery, guest in Creative Conversations class (2020)
A-B Projects’ State of Ceramics series, inaugural lecture (Los Angeles, 2019)
West Valley College Annual Earth Stewardship Symposium Keynote (Saratoga Springs, CA, 2018)
California State University San Bernardino Ceramics Program (2018)
University of California, Santa Cruz Sculpture Program (2016)
COLLECTIONS
McEvoy Family Collection
City of Houston Civic Art Collection
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
Diaconov, Valentin. Intimate confession is a project, e-flux Criticism, January 16, 2024
Teets, Jennifer. Moonlight Over Texas, Terremoto, January 27, 2022
August, Laura. Anna Mayer Reconstitutes Loss in Houston, Momus, April 20, 2021
Cheng, Sherry. Forms of Inheritance: Anna Mayer Goes Meta at the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Arts and Culture Texas (online), February 12, 2021
In the Wake of Fire, roundtable conversation about my work with Candice Lin and Poppy Coles, X- TRA Contemporary Art Quarterly, Spring 2019 print issue
Wagley, Catherine. A Decade Ago, a Local Artist Predicted That Malibu Would Be Ravaged by a Wildfire, Los Angeles Magazine (online), February 12, 2019
Lassner, Georgia. Little show, big, big, sophisticated heart: Anna Mayer’s “As I Say Dying” at AWHRHWAR, Unpublished (blog), February 27, 2018
Rodgers, Bill. Commentary | Themes in Clay that May have Escaped Our Notice, Cfile.Daily, March 3, 2016
Wagley, Catherine. Review, LA Weekly, November 11, 2015
Mizota, Sharon. Designs for real people's real problems showcased in group show at the
Armory, Los Angeles Times, May 29, 2015.
Mizota, Sharon. Review: Visions by Anna Mayer and Rosha Yaghmai lightly collide, Los Angeles Times, October 17, 2013.
KCET / Robby Herbst, "LA Artists and the 'Squareness' of Clay", July 12, 2013.
Griffen, Jonathan. Alika Cooper, Frieze Magazine, January – February 2013.
Wagley, Catherine. What Land Art Would You Create If Money Were No Object? Three Artists' Proposals, LA Weekly, May 24, 2012.
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Social Practice at MOCA 2008-2012, 2012.
Stratton, S. CamLab, artUS, Issue 18: May-June, pg 44, 2007
MEMBERSHIP
Clay Houston, Houston TX - Member (since 2017), Board Member “At Large” (2020-2022)
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Authority, Role, and Boundaries: Navigating the Unconscious and the Complexities of the “Back to Normal”: Fall 2022 Group Relations Conference, Teachers College, Columbia University, NY
EDUCATION
2007 California Institute of the Arts: Master of Fine Arts in Studio Art
2004 The School of the Art Institute of Chicago: Bachelor of Fine Art in Sculpture
1996 Washington University of St. Louis: Bachelor of Arts in Literature and Women’s Studies