Anna Child (b. 1978, Camden, South Carolina) is a Baltimore-based artist whose primary media are painting and printmaking. Child received a BA in anthropology from Kenyon College and studied art at the New York Studio School, the Maryland Institute College of Art, and was a Penland School of Craft Core Fellow.
Child’s abstract painting practice embraces doubt and disorientation as generative forces. Her work proposes joy not as escape, but as a radical response to difficulty. There is a line between order and a complete collapse where Child’s eager embrace of change defies these binary defaults.
Child’s work has been supported by multiple Maryland State Arts Council grants, a Bethesda Painting Prize, and recent residencies at Woodstock Byrdcliffe, Vermont Studio Center, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Chalk Hill, and Jentel.
