Annie Wharton is an artist and curator who lives and works in Los Angeles, California. Born in Tallahassee, Florida, Wharton lived in Stuttgart, Germany, New York, New York, and Miami Beach, Florida before moving to Los Angeles in late 2005. Her work has been featured in publications that include the New York Times, Art in America, ArtNews, Art Papers, Art.Es (Spain) Ha'aretz (Israel), Giornale dell'Arte (Italy), Glamour, and German Elle. In addition to a wide array of international art fairs, gallery and alternative spaces throughout the US, Israel, Japan and Europe, she's shown her work in group shows at museums such as the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Washington, DC, the Ringling Museum of Sarasota, and in Miami at the Lowe Museum the Bass Museum, and the Museum of Contemporary Art and in solo museum exhibits at the Kirishima Open Air Museum in Kirishima, Japan and The Wolfsonian-FIU Museum. Her work is in included in important public and private collections throughout the world. Her studio is located in Chinatown in Los Angeles, California.
Her first solo curatorial endeavor, "DREAM(land)," is a show featuring works by Ingibjörg Birgisdóttir (Iceland), Carlton DeWoody (New York), Matilda Forsberg (Sweden), Felice Grodin (Florida), Jiae Hwang (South Korea), Gregory Kucera (California), Joshua Levine (California), Elizabeth Perikli (California), Jim Roche (Florida), Neal Rock (South Wales), Leigh Salgado (California), and the TM Sisters (Florida). DREAM(land) was unveiled at JAIL Gallery in LA in May, 2008.
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