Anna Craycroft

Lives and works in New York, NY
www.agencyoforphan.com

Education
2004
 M.F.A. Columbia School of Art, New York, NY
1998
 B.A. Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2008 Upcoming solo project, Sandroni Rey Project Space
The Agency of the Orphan Tracy Williams Ltd., New York, NY
2005

The Intimate Furnishings of Ignis Fatuus, Le Case D’Arte, Milan, Italy
2001

Casa delle Sette Sorelle, Loop House Gallery, Lecce, Italy

Selected Group Exhibitions
2007

Dream of Today Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
Art in The Parks: Celebrating 40 Years, 1967-2007 (A citywide installation of 40 projects in New York City Parks)
The Line of Time, and the Plane of Now Harris Leiberman, New York, NY
2006

Bunch Alliance and Dissolve: organized by Public Holiday Projects, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnatti, OH
Jagdsalon, Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany
Junstverein Wilhelmshohe, Ettlingen, Germany
2005 Set and Drift, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Governors Island New York, NY
Greater New York, PS1 Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
2004 Emerging Artist Fellowship Exhibition, Socrates Sculpture Park LIC, NY
Dance Dance Revolution  LeRoy Neiman Gallery, New York, NY
Fresh Tracks Performance series Dance Theatre Workshop New York, NY
Free Radio: collaborative project by artists Fabienne Lasserre & Christy Gast, HighDesert Test Sites, CA
Video Salon : curated by Eva Respini and Jacob Dyrenforth Brooklyn, NY
Office Space, Global Consulting Group, New York, NY
2003 D-Motion : Expanded Reality Interactive Media Festival, Halle, Germany
One Friend & TwentyThousand Enemies Kunstochschule, Kassel, Germany
2002 Narrative in Prints and Books, LeRoy Neiman Gallery New York, NY
Group Show, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, NY
2001
 Interference, Espace Dane, Paris, France
1999
 Artists Make Artist Spaces, A.M.A.S. Projects, New York, NY
The Nature Theatre of Oklahoma, A.M.A.S Projects, New York, NY

Awards/Commissions
2005

Commissioned Artwork for Bloomberg LP  Art in General, New York, NY
Commissioned Artwork for Set and Drift  LMCC, NYC
2004

Proposal Commission : In the Public Realm, Public Art Fund, New York, NY
Emerging Artist Fellowship, Socrates Sculpture Park, NYC
2003

Viar Merit Fellowship, Columbia University, New York, NY
Brevoort Eickmeyer Grant, Columbia University, New York, NY
M Roche Grant, Columbia University, New York, NY                    
2002

Blair Dickinson Award, Yale University
2001

Schickle-Collingwood Prize, Yale University.
1998

Evelyn de Morgan Drawing Competition, Slade School of Fine Art, UK
1997

William Coldstream Painting Competition, Slade School of Fine Art, UK

Residencies
2001
 Artist in Residence, Loop House Gallery, Lecce, Italy

Bibliography
2007

New Yorker August 6 2007, In the Belly of the Beast  Andrea Scott
Bunch Alliance and Dissolve © 2006 Public Holiday Projects
2006

Socrates Sculpture Park eds. Alyson Baker and Ivana Mestrovic, © 2006 Socrates Sculpture Park
Artforum December 20 2006 XLV no4  The Artist's Artist : Best of 2006
Artnews vol 105/no. 2
Walking the Green Carpet Stephanie Murg
2005

Greater New York 2005 ed. Klaus Beisenbach, ©2005 PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY
Jagdsalon Wolfgang Hartmann-Preis 2005
V Magazine no.36 Works in Progress
Art in America June/July 2005
Report from New York 1 Elanor Heartney
Tema Celeste #109
The Greater New York 2005 Micaela Giovannotti
2004

NY Newsday Sept 19
Views of Materials and Mythologies Steve Dollar
2003

D-Motion: Konferens Und Festuval Fur Interaktive Medien: Expanded Reality: Exhibition Catalogue

Publications
2007

Satellite, San Francisco CA, «Sound Like a Gong» in collaboration with Anthony Marcellini
2006 North Drive Press Issue #3, New York City, NY
2005 North Drive Press Issue #2, New York City, NY