Born in Auckland, New Zealand in 1976. Currently lives and works in Los Angeles.
Education
1998 School of Visual Arts, BFA, with Honors
2008 Bard College, MFA
Public Sculpture
2014 “LookSee,” King’s Road Park, City of West Hollywood, produced by LAXART
Solo Exhibitions
2023 "Anna Sew Hoy: New Work", San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
2019 “The Wettest Letter”, Various Small Fires, Los Angeles, CA
2018 Blood Moon Proposition, Campbell Hall Art Gallery, Campbell Hall, Los Angeles
2017 “storefront: Artist Curated Projects: Anna Sew Hoy”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
“Psychic Body Grotto”, Los Angeles State Historic Park, Los Angeles, CA
2016 “Magnetic Between,” Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
“Invisible Tattoo”, Koenig & Clinton, New York, NY
2015 “FACE NO FACE”, Various Small Fires, Los Angeles, CA
2013 “Home Office,” Various Small Fires, Los Angeles, CA
“Planets Making Planets,” performance with Math Bass and Claire Kohne, commissioned by LAND Nomadic Nights, Los Angeles
2012 “Tissues &Trench Coats,” Romer Young Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2011 “Nothing All Day: Anna Sew Hoy,” San Jose Museum of Art, CA
“Pass Over,” Two Serious Ladies, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2010 “Holes,” Sikkema, Jenkins & Co., New York, NY
2008 “looksee,” Renwick Gallery, New York, NY
“POW!, ” LAXART, Los Angeles, CA
2007 “hook & eye,” Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2003 “broken arm,” Peres Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2002 “Wash My Bike,” Massimo Audiello Fine Art, New York
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 "Borrowed Recipes", Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles, CA
2023 "This Long Century: Beginners", Dunes, Portland, ME
"This Archipelago", LACC VAMA Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"Artist Curated Projects Anniversary Show", Morán Morán, Los Angeles, CA
"Fever Dream Duets", Albertz Benda, Los Angeles, CA
"Pollen on a West Wind", curated by Tony Marsh, Jason Jacques Gallery, New York
2022 "2022 Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts", American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York
"77 th Scripps College Ceramic Annual", Claremont, CA (catalog)
"The Hearing Trumpet, part I", organized by Danielle Shang, Galerie Marguo, Paris (catalog)
"The Hand That Forms A Mirror", curated by Anders Ruhwald, Moràn Moràn Gallery, Los Angeles
2021 "Abstracted Vocabularies: Selections from the Collection", Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego
"Visual Experience", Sokyo Gallery, Kyoto, Japan
"Psychosomatic, Various Small Fires", Los Angeles
2020 "Pacific Coast Ceramics", Galeria Mascota, Mexico City, MX
"Semblance/Sunshine", Torrance Art Museum, CA
"Thinking About Thinking About the Future", Te Uru Art Gallery, Auckland, NZ
"Do You Know Where the Children Are?", The Corner at Whitman-Walker, Washington, DC
2019 "Material Properties", curated by Margaret Liu Clinton, Albertz Benda Gallery, NYC
"Superstimulus", a home show organized by Nicola Farquhar, Auckland, NZ
"The Sun is Also a Sta"r, Artist Curated Projects, Los Angeles Fur Cup, Underdonk Gallery, Brooklyn
"GARB", Williamson Gallery, ArtCenter College of Art and Design, Pasadena
“ENTERING A SONG”, Koenig & Clinton, New York
2015 “Freedom Culture,” Journal Gallery, New York
“Mrs. Benway,” Fourteen30 Contemporary, Portland, OR
“Surface of Color,” The Pit, Los Angeles, CA
2014 “Fixing a Hole,” Koenig & Clinton, New York
“Made In LA,” Hammer Museum, included in the Los Angeles Museum of Art’s installation
2013 “Prospect 2013,” Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego
“Please See American Objects,” curated by Eve Fowler, The Apartment, Athens, Greece
“Touch the Moon,” Louis B. James Gallery, New York
“And How Are We Feeling Today?” University Art Gallery, UCSD, San Diego
2012 “Flection,” curated by Sabrina Buell, Hedge Gallery, San Francisco
2011 “The More Things Change,” San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
“Paul Clay,” Salon 94, New York
“Greater LA,” curated by Eleanor Cayce, Joel Messler, and Benjamin Godsill, New York
2009 “Electric Mud,” curated by David Pagel, Blaffer Art Museum, Houston, TX
“An Expanded Field of Possibilities,” curated by Miki Garcia, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, CA
“Ridykelous Hits Bottom,” Leo Koenig Projekt, curated by Nicole Eisenmann and A.L. Steiner, New York, NY
2008 “California Biennal 2008,” Orange County Museum of Art, CA
“Sew Hoy, Lutker, Youngblood,” University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara
“Reskilling,” The Western Front, Vancouver, Canada
“Now You See It,” Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado
“You can go your own way,” Renwick Gallery, New York, NY
“Living Flowers,” curated by Karin Higa, Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles, CA
“Red Wind,” Blum&Poe Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2007 “Edens Edge: Fifteen LA Artists,” The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
“Exit Music (For a Film),” Grimm/Rosenfeld Gallery, Munich
2006 “One Way or Another,” curated by Karen Higa, Susette Min and Melissa Chiu, Asia Society, New York.
“Tiago Carneiro da Cunha, Julia Kunin, Sterling Ruby, Anna Sew Hoy,” Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“Selections from My Wardrobe,” Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“Cosmic Wonder,” Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco.
2005 “Diamond Hand Grenade,” Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis.
“Sugartown,” Elizabeth Dee Gallery and Participant, Inc., New York.
2004 “Geode Baroque,” curated by Fritz Haeg, Sundown Salon #19, Los Angeles.
“The stars of track and field are beautiful people,” Changing Role Move Over Gallery, Naples.
2003 “The Rules Everyone Will Follow From This Day Forth,” Peres Projects.
2002 “Unknown Pleasures,” Daniel Reich Gallery, New York.
“Artists on Artists,” Ace Gallery, New York. 2001 “Perfunctory,” Team Gallery, New York.
“Neutopia,” Massimo Audiello Gallery, New York.
2000 “Talleres: collection of the Guadalajara workshops,” Mexican Cultural Institute, New York.
1999 “Lost and Found,” Massimo Audiello Gallery, New York.
Awards
2023 Fellows of Contemporary Art, Grant to Artist
2022 Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship for Visual Art
2021 Anonymous Was A Woman Award
2018 Martha Longenecker Roth Distinguished Artist in Residence, Department of Visual Arts, University of California, San Diego
2016-2019 Artist in residence, Department of Ceramics, College of the Arts, California State University, Long Beach
2015 Creative Capital Grant for Visual Arts in support of Psychic Body Grotto
2014 Sew Hoy’s “Practical Elegance” 2013, selected by LACMA’s Art Here & Now
Forum for the Museum’s permanent collection
2013 California Community Foundation Emerging Artist Grant
2012 Artist in Residence with Pearl C. Hsiung at Heart of Los Angeles, supported by the Rauschenberg Foundation
2010 Artists’ Resource for Completion Grant, Durfee Foundation, Los Angeles
2006 United States Artists Fellowship, Broad Fellow
2002 Artist in residence of the Space Program, the Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation, New York
1999 Artist in residence, Ceramica Suro, Guadalajara, Mexico
Collections
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
Art, Design and Architecture Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Altoids Collection, New York, at the New Museum