about Anna Fox Ryan
Since 2007 Anna's paintings and drawings have examined power dynamics. Between 2008-2020 Anna lectured at over 20 art institutes and universities across the US, presenting over 200 lectures on advanced color theory, oil painting materials and techniques. She was slotted for TedX Sedona 2020, until the event was cancelled due to Covid-19. Since that time Anna has taken time to reassess her role and contributions as an artist in the shifting terrains of power throughout our worlds.
In 2016 Anna was accepted into a painting residency with visionary artists Alex Grey & Allyson Grey at the Chapel of Sacred Mirrors. In 2014 Anna attended the Barnes Artist Residency in Umbria Italy. In 2013 her paintings were presented by Neiman Marcus in King of Prussia Pennsylvania. Anna's work was exhibited in Provincetown Art Museum in 2016 and 2017.
From 2013-2015 Anna studied Shamanic Energy Medicine with the Four Winds Society, Alberto Villoldo Ph.D., learning and receiving initiations from the lineage of the Q'ero Shaman of the high Andes. This Energy medicine, combined with Jungian psychology, and western ethics in counseling practices continues to deeply inform her work. These initiations and healing practices were not merely a set of steps and skills. The experiences constituted a soul-to-cellular remembering that informed her entire life's course. From there, from 2015-2017, Anna participated in and co-facilitated an international conscious women's group.
Anna was awarded a year long artist residency with ArtHub Artist Residency in Arizona, in September 2017. During this time Anna closed her relationships with former galleries to allow space to reset and regenerate. From 2018 to 2019 she was awarded the role of Residency Program Director, Chief Curator and a permanent artist in residence. During her time with ArtHub she expanded the program by bringing artist lectures to the local high school and hosting events for the local art community. During the inaugural semester of the new program, ArtHub reached over 200 students through class visits and field trips hosted at artist's studios. At the close of 2019 Anna advised on the merger between ArtHub and the local arts center, working with a team to establish an art education program that continues to thrive today.
Anna earned her BFA in painting and illustration from Savannah College of Art & Design in 2008 and has been a professional artist since. Her work hangs throughout the US and Europe, in collections of prominent individuals and institutions, whom she lovingly refers to as "guardians and stewards".
In 2020 Anna returned to live in the country outside her hometown of Charlottesville, Virginia where she keeps a studio focused on her next body of work.
In 2016 Anna was accepted into a painting residency with visionary artists Alex Grey & Allyson Grey at the Chapel of Sacred Mirrors. In 2014 Anna attended the Barnes Artist Residency in Umbria Italy. In 2013 her paintings were presented by Neiman Marcus in King of Prussia Pennsylvania. Anna's work was exhibited in Provincetown Art Museum in 2016 and 2017.
From 2013-2015 Anna studied Shamanic Energy Medicine with the Four Winds Society, Alberto Villoldo Ph.D., learning and receiving initiations from the lineage of the Q'ero Shaman of the high Andes. This Energy medicine, combined with Jungian psychology, and western ethics in counseling practices continues to deeply inform her work. These initiations and healing practices were not merely a set of steps and skills. The experiences constituted a soul-to-cellular remembering that informed her entire life's course. From there, from 2015-2017, Anna participated in and co-facilitated an international conscious women's group.
Anna was awarded a year long artist residency with ArtHub Artist Residency in Arizona, in September 2017. During this time Anna closed her relationships with former galleries to allow space to reset and regenerate. From 2018 to 2019 she was awarded the role of Residency Program Director, Chief Curator and a permanent artist in residence. During her time with ArtHub she expanded the program by bringing artist lectures to the local high school and hosting events for the local art community. During the inaugural semester of the new program, ArtHub reached over 200 students through class visits and field trips hosted at artist's studios. At the close of 2019 Anna advised on the merger between ArtHub and the local arts center, working with a team to establish an art education program that continues to thrive today.
Anna earned her BFA in painting and illustration from Savannah College of Art & Design in 2008 and has been a professional artist since. Her work hangs throughout the US and Europe, in collections of prominent individuals and institutions, whom she lovingly refers to as "guardians and stewards".
In 2020 Anna returned to live in the country outside her hometown of Charlottesville, Virginia where she keeps a studio focused on her next body of work.