Ann Toebbe

Lives and works in Chicago, IL

Artist statement

Originally from Cincinnati, Ohio, Ann Toebbe received her BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art in 1997. Toebbe participated in the New York Studio Program through Parson's School of Design in 1995 and was a resident at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2000. She earned an MFA in painting from Yale University in 2004 and a DAAD Scholarship to the Universität der Kunst, Berlin in 2004-05. She has been the recipient of numerous grants including a Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant in 2005 and 2015, a Sustainable Arts Foundation Grant in 2015, and a Chicago DCase Grant and IL Council for the Arts Grant in 2017. Toebbe was an AiR at the Pilchuck School of Glass in 2017 and a full fellow at The Vermont Studio Center in 2018. Recent exhibitions include Friends and Rentals at Tibor de Nagy, NYC and Swing State at Sarah Lawrence College. Her work has been exhibited in the US and Europe and reviewed in THe New York Times, Artforum, Modern Painter, Hyperallergic, The Boston Globe, Art in America among others. She is represented by Tibor de Nagy in NYC, Steven Zevitas in Boston, and Zevitas Marcus Gallery, Los Angeles. Toebbe lives in Chicago.

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