Anne Libby

Inspired by the visual seduction of the industrial sublime, Anne Libby’s work creates unexpected new forms by repositioning the signs and symbols of contemporary corporate production. Libby’s process begins as a dissection - skyscrapers, glass curtain walls, circuit boards, domestic ready-mades - layers peeled away and reformed, casts ossified into permanent suspension. The effect is an ethereal reformation of defaults in favor of beauty, craft and aesthetic inflection.

Anne Libby received her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI in 2009 and her MFA at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, NY in 2017. Recent solo exhibitions include: Inner Green Echo, Magenta Plains, New York, NY (2023); Rib Erosion with Anna Rosen, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2023), See Me So, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2021); Dilated Sky, Soft Opening, London, UK (2020); Anne Libby: Form Constant, Ribordy Thetaz, Geneva, Switzerland (2019); The Golden Door, Magenta Plains, New York, NY (2018); Anne Libby, The Downer, Berlin, Germany (2018); Earthflash, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2018); Anne Libby, Zak’s Project Space, Brooklyn, NY (2017); Marrow into Moxie, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2015); Lillies Lamellae, Metropolitan Structures, Baltimore, MD (2015); Les Annelés, Violet’s Cafe, Brooklyn, NY (2015). Libby has also been included in two person and group exhibitions at R&Company, New York, NY (forthcoming) Tina Kim Gallery, New York, NY; JTT, NY; Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Del Vaz Projects, Los Angeles, CA; Meredith Rosen Gallery, New York, NY; Moskowitz Bayse, Los Angeles, CA; Stars Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Soft Opening, London, UK; Josh Lilley, London, UK; SIGNAL, Brooklyn, NY; Nina Johnson, Miami, FL.

Born in 1987, Los Angeles, CA
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA

Education

2017

MFA, Bard College, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

2009

BFA, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

Solo and Two Person Exhibitions

2025

(FORTHCOMING) Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2023

Rib Erosion with Anna Rosen, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Inner Green Echo, Magenta Plains, New York, NY

2021

See Me So, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Reflexions with Michael Henry Hayden, Del Vaz Projects, Santa Monica, CA

2020

Dilated Sky, Soft Opening, London, UK

2019

Form Constant, Ribordy Thetaz, Geneva, CH

2018

The Golden Door, Magenta Plains, New York, NY
Anne Libby, The Downer, Berlin, DE
Earthflash, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2017

Anne Libby, Zak's Project Space, Brooklyn, NY
A Dumb Sound, A Sweet Bell, with Libby Rothfeld, 315 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2016

Marrow into Moxie, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2015

Lillies Lamellae, Metropolitan Structures, Baltimore, MD
Les Annelés, Violet's Cafe, Brooklyn, NY

Group Exhibitions

2024

(FORTHCOMING) Bibeau Krueger, New York, NY
Jamb, Et Al., San Francisco, CA
Objects: USA, R&Company, New York, NY

2023

HEAVEN IS A DIFFERENT THING, Uncle Brother, Hancock, NY
House For The Inhabitant Who Refused To Participate, Tina Kim Gallery, NY
Hot Glue, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
PENDULUM, Winter Street Gallery, Edgartown, MA
Synthetic Bodies, Lyles and King, New York, NY

2022

The Heavy Light Show, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The Grid and the Curve, JTT, New York, NY
The Views curated by Zoe Fisher, Moskowitz Bayse, Los Angeles, CA
Out of Bounds, TAM Torrence Art Museum, Torrence, CA

2021

Friends & Family, Magenta Plains, New York, NY
TOES, KNEES, SHOULDERS, HEADS + BUTTS & GUTS, Meredith Rosen Gallery, New York, NY
Psychosomatic, Various Small Fires, Los Angeles, CA
Frieze Viewing Room, Night Gallery, New York, NY
Your Presence Is Encouraged, Nevine’s Yard, Los Angeles, CA

2020

Independent NY, Magenta Plains, New York, NY
Sculpture from a Distance (Part II), Parker Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2019

New Ruins, Soft Opening, London, UK
Group Show, 90 Green Street, Hudson, NY
Rise, Ribordy Thetaz, Geneva, CH
Dallas Art Fair, Magenta Plains, Dallas, TX

2018

Of Purism, Curated by Charlap Hyman & Herrero, Nina Johnson, Miami, FL
I Had the Landscape in My Arms, Josh Lilley, London, UK

2017

Brass Jingle/Brutalist Jungle, Curated by Keith J. Varadi, Et al, San Francisco, CA
NAGY / LIBBY / LE VA, Magenta Plains, New York, NY
Sigh-Fi, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock, AK

2016

Flowers in Your Hair, Fused Project Space, San Francisco, CA
You'd Give Him a Flower, He'd Keep it Forever, Organized by Jenni Crain, ZAX, Brooklyn, NY
The Second Perennial, Grecian Pavilion, Prospect Park, NY
8/21, Rockaway Beach 96th Street, New York, NY
Summer Sculpture Garden, Signal, Brooklyn, NY
Pipe Dream, Night Gallery & Rachel Uffner, New York, NY
Inaugural Show, In Limbo, New York, NY

2015

Blue Roses the Play, U.S. Blues, New York, NY
Club '63, Violet's Cafe, Brooklyn, NY
There is No Fact As to Whether or Not P, 247365, New York, NY
Tears on My Spider Roll, Violet's Cafe Project Space, Brooklyn, NY

2014

The Fishbone Diagram: Sturgeon's Law and the 10% Potable, U.S. Blues, New York, NY