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
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
2022 Allie Biswas, ‘An Inside Job’, The world of Interiors, January
2022 Emily Steer, ‘Enter the ‘Interior’ World of the Subject’, Frieze.com, December
2022 Edward Behrens, ‘Inside track - the artists who know how to portray their subjects’, Apollo Magazine, November
2019 Jonathan Foyle, ‘Fruits of the loom: Anne Low’s woven sculptures using historic weaving methods’, Financial Times, September
2019 Caitlin Chaisson, ‘Anne Low: Chair for a woman’, C Magazine, Issue 142
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, January
2017 Maria Lind, ‘Looms Everywhere’, Art Review, October
2015 Kelsey Klassen, ‘On the Western Front’, Westender, March
2015 Jessica Lack, ‘Mashed up Moderns’, World of Interiors, March
2015 Kathy Noble, ‘The Grantchester Pottery Paints the Stage’, Jerwood Space, London
2013 Kerri Reid, ‘Interview with Anne Low’, Millions Magazine, Issue 3
2012 Rodney LaTourelle, ‘Anne Low at the Taut and Tame in Berlin’, Akimbo.ca, December
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