Anne Walsh
American visual artist (born 1962)
Anne Walsh (born 1962, New York City) is an American visual artist, art editor, curator and teacher. She works with video, performance, audio, photography, and text. Her works often re-mediate the works and lives of other artists and her own family. Walsh has said that her artistic medium is “study.” Walsh's book Hello Leonora, Soy Anne Walsh (2019, no place press/MIT Press) epitomizes the aggressively indexical, personal, and analytical nature of her practice. A visual and written ‘adaptation’ of Leonora Carrington's 1950 fantastical feminist novella The Hearing Trumpet, the book traces Walsh's decade-long, multi-part response to the novella—including meeting the author and corresponding with her. Other recent adaptations include Walsh's live performances with poet Jocelyn Saidenberg of Camille Roy's play Sometimes Dead is Better, and her video installation Anthem, in which Walsh performed, with a troupe of Oakland elders, the Oscar-winning song Let It Go, from the 2014 Disney film Frozen.
In addition to exhibiting her work nationally and internationally, Walsh is associate professor of art practice at University of California, Berkeley.
Biography
Anne Walsh was born in 1962, in New York City. She graduated from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (BA degree), and the California Institute of the Arts (MFA degree).
Walsh is associate professor of New Genres in the Department of Art Practice at University of California, Berkeley, where she teaches video, graduate studies, and critical theory.
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