Ann Pibal


Ann Pibal is an American painter who makes geometric compositions using acrylic paint on aluminum panel. She was the recipient of a 2013 Guggenheim Fellowship and her work is in the collection of the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY, Hirshhorn Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., and the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, among others. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY and North Bennington, VT.

Early life and education

Ann Pibal was born in Minneapolis, MN in 1969. She received her undergraduate degree from St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN in 1991 and her MA and MFA in Painting from The University of Iowa, Iowa City in 1995.

Teaching

Pibal has been on the Bennington College faculty since 1998.

Collections

Pibal's work is in the following public collections: Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY; Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME; Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME; Hirshhorn Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah GA; and the Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Saratoga Springs, NY.

Selected exhibitions

Pibal has had solo exhibitions at: team gallery, New York, Lucien Terras, Inc., New York, NY; Steven Zevitas Gallery, Boston, MA ; Meulensteen, New York, NY; Max Protetch, New York, NY ; The Suburban, Chicago IL ; Max Protetch, New York, NY ; Schmidt Contemporary, St. Louis, MO ; Jessica Murray Projects, New York, NY. She has participated in group exhibitions at numerous venues including The Brooklyn Museum, The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Atlanta Contemporary, and MoMA P.S.1.

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