Anne Low

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Clay suitcase, 2023, Hand woven cotton and silk, calcium carbonate, hide glue, wood, plaster, metal, 60 x 35 x 2 in (152.3 x 88.9 x 5.1 cm)



Bone, 2023, Hand woven and painted silk, cotton, paper, found metal components, epoxy, paint, 31 x 4 x 2 in (78.7 x 10.2 x 5.1 cm)



Tirepile, 2020, Hand woven silk, hand woven and moired silk, 33 x 26 x 26 in (83.8 x 66 x 66 cm)



Dusting paper, 2018, Paint, wallpaper made in collaboration with Slyvian Sailly, printed by Handtrycka Tapeter, Stockholm, wood, 15 x 34 x 7 in (38.1 x 86.4 x 17.8 cm)



Dust bed, 2018-2019, Handwoven silk, cotton, foam



Dust bed, 2018-2019, Handwoven silk, cotton, foam



Chair for a woman, 2018, Maple, basswood, beeswax, iron oxide pigment, mother of pearl, 32 x 28 x 30 in (81.3 x 71.1 x 76.2 cm)



Chair of a woman, 2018, Maple, basswood, beeswax, iron oxide pigment, mother of pearl



Hardbread, 2019, Found paper, 4.5 x 4.5 in (11.4 x 11.4 x 11.4 cm)


Anne Low
b. Stratford, CA
Lives and works in Sointula, CA

Education
2021    Textile Analysis, Fondazione Arte Della Seta Lisio, Florence, IT
2019    Study at the Marshfield School of Weaving, Vermont, US
2006    MA, Curating Contemporary Art, Royal College of Art, London, UK
2003    BFA, Emily Carr Institute of Art + Design, Vancouver, CA

Solo & Two Person Exhibitions
2023    Bury me, Franz Kaka, Toronto, CA 
2021    Medlar, Unit 17, Vancouver, CA
2020    Figure Like Hearse, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, CA
2020    Anne Low & Dala Nasser, L’inconnue, Paris, FR
2020    A Blown Glass Trash Can A Silk Sack for a Tire, Trilobite and le pneu, Montreal, CA
2019    Chair for a woman, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, CA
2019    Bletting, Franz Kaka, Toronto, CA
2018    A Fine Thread of Deviation (collaboration with Evan Calder Williams) & Paperstainer, Mercer Union, Toronto, CA
2018    A wall as a table with candlestick legs, Tensta konsthal, Stockholm, SE
2017    Witch with Comb, Artspeak, Vancouver, CA
2012    Some Rugs and Blankets, The Taut and the Tame, Berlin, DE
2012    Weavings, Belvedere Project Space, Vancouver, CA
2008    Women's Assembly: Two Scenes from a Radio Play, Hex Projects, London, UK
2007    A Listening of the 1981 Recording Of Glenn Gould’s Bach’s Goldberg Variations Temporary Measures, Associates Gallery, London, UK

Group Exhibitions
2024    a twisted rag in a scallop shell, Astor Weeks, Brooklyn, US
2022    Interior, Michael Werner Gallery, London, UK
2022    New Acquisitions, Burnaby Art Gallery, Vancouver, CA
2020    La machine qui enseignait des airs aux oiseaux, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, CA
2020    Crocodile Tears, Unit 17, Vancouver, CA
2019    Sobey Art Award, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, CA
2019    Art Encounters Biennial, Timișoara, RO
2019    The Fine Thread of Deviation (in collaboration with Evan Calder Williams), 49th Berlinale Forum Explanded, Arsenal-Institute für Film and Videokunst e.V., Berlin, DE
2018    Soon enough – Art in action, Tensta konsthall, Stockholm, SE
2018    Standard Incomparable, organized by Helen Mirra, Large Glass, London, UK
2018    Giles Round: The Director, Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield,UK
2018    Chance Enoucnters IV: Andrea Büttner, Ian Godfrey, Anne Low, Loewe Foundation, Miami, US
2017    Loewe Craft Prize, La Fundación Arquitectura COAM, Madrid; Chamber Gallery, New York, US; 21_21 Museum, Tokyo, JP
2017    Dream Islands, Nanaimo Art Gallery, Nanaimo, CA
2017    Separation Penetrates, Mercer Union, Toronto, CA
2017    Standard Incomparable, organized by Helen Mirra, Kunst Meran/ Merano Arte, IT
2017    Clive Hodgson & Anne Low, The Block, London, UK
2017    Soot, Unit 17, Vancouver, CA
2016    Vancouver Special: Ambivalent Pleasures, Vancouver Art Gallery, CA
2016    Artist-curated exhibition as part of Lucy Raven, Serpentine Galleries, London, UK
2016    Standard Incomparable, organized by Helen Mirra, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, US
2015    Reading the Line, The Western Front, Vancouver, CA
2015    The Grantchester Pottery Paints the Stage, Jerwood Visual Arts, London, UK
2013    The Grantchester Pottery, ARTIST DECORATORS, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK
2013    The Grantchester Pottery, Studio Wares, David Dale Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
2011    Ron Tran: It knows not what it is, Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver, CA
2008    The Hex: A Retrospective, Limoncello Gallery, London, UK
2007    Los Vinilos, El Basilisco, Buenos Aires, AR
2003    On Location, Belkin Satellite, Vancouver, CA

Collaborative Projects
2019    The Fine Thread of Deviation, in collaboration with Evan Calder Williams, 49th Berlinale Forum Expanded, Arsenal – Institut für Film und Videokunst e.V., Berlin, DE
2017    Elaine in collaboration with Derya Akay, AKA artist run, Saskatoon, CA
2017    Elaine in collaboration with Derya Akay, as part of Ambivalent Pleasures, Vancouver Art Gallery, CA
2016    Kitchen Midden in collaboration with Gareth Moore, Griffin Art Projects, Vancouver, CA
2016    Elaine in collaboration with Derya Akay, Haunt, Vancouver, CA
2016    A Fine Thread of Deviation in collaboration with Evan Calder Williams, ISSUE Project Room, New York, US

Press
2024    Odessa Paloma Parker, ‘Anne Low collaboration with Loewe brings textiles to life in Milan exhibit’, The Globe and Mail
2022    Allie Biswas, ‘An Inside Job’, The world of Interiors
2022    Emily Steer, ‘Enter the ‘Interior’ World of the Subject’, Frieze.com
2022    Edward Behrens, ‘Inside track - the artists who know how to portray their subjects’, Apollo Magazine,
2019    Jonathan Foyle, ‘Fruits of the loom: Anne Low’s woven sculptures using historic weaving methods’, Financial Times 
2019    Caitlin Chaisson, ‘Anne Low: Chair for a woman’, C Magazine
2019    Esmé Hogeveen, ‘Anne Low, Franz Kaka, Toronto’, Critic’s Picks, Artforum.com
2019    Alison Sinkewicz, ‘Anne Low’s Chair for a woman, Vancouver’, Nuvo
2017    Maria Lind, ‘Looms Everywhere’, Art Review
2015    Kelsey Klassen, ‘On the Western Front’, Westender
2015    Jessica Lack, ‘Mashed up Moderns’, World of Interiors
2015    Kathy Noble, ‘The Grantchester Pottery Paints the Stage’, Jerwood Space
2013    Kerri Reid, ‘Interview with Anne Low’, Millions Magazine
2012    Rodney LaTourelle, ‘Anne Low at the Taut and Tame in Berlin’, Akimbo.ca

Curatorial Projects
2023    A forged spider’s web, Unit 17, Vancouver, CA
2016    Kitchen Midden, Griffin Art Projects, Vancouver, CA (curated in collaboration with Ashes Withyman)
2009    From the Gathering, Helen Pitt Gallery, Vancouver, CA (curated in collaboration with Andrew Bonacina)

Writing
2016    Anne Low, ‘Tromp as writ' in 'Stuff'’, ti-TCR published by The Capilano Review
2016    Anne Low, ‘Liz Magor’, Framework, Susan Hobbs Gallery
2011    Anne Low, ‘Joyce Wieland: Reason Over Passion’, The Complete Works of Joyce Wieland, Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre, Toronto
2011    Anne Low, ‘Joyce Wieland: Pierre Vallieres’, Lux Journal, Spring
2008    Anne Low, ‘Otherwise Unexplained Fires: The Films of Joyce Wieland’, C Magazine, Fall

Residencies
2018    Tensta konsthall, Stockholm, SE
2016    Research Residency, Malaspina Printmakers, Vancouver, CA

Collections
RBC Corporate Art Collection, Toronto, CA
TD Bank Art Collection, Toronto, CA
Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, CA