Anna's profile
Anna Child (b. South Carolina) is a Baltimore-based painter whose abstract work investigates the generative potential of doubt and ambiguity. Her process-driven practice treats painting as a form of visual thinking—intuitive, unstable, and rooted in the aesthetics of uncertainty. Through layering, erasure, and reversal, her work resists resolution, inviting viewers to engage with what is contingent, unresolved, and in flux.
Child studied at the New York Studio School and Maryland Institute College of Art, and was a Core Fellow at Penland School of Craft. Her work has been supported by multiple Maryland State Arts Council grants, a Bethesda Painting Prize, and residencies including the Vermont Studio Center, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Woodstock Byrdcliffe, Chalk Hill, and Jentel. In 2026, she will return to VSC as a Fellow. A suite of her monotypes, created in collaboration with Phil Sanders, will be published by PS Marlowe (Asheville, NC) in 2025.
