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About the Artist

Anna Mayer’s practice is sculptural and social, with an emphasis on hand-built ceramics. Her methodology emerges from enacting formative site-specific projects in Southern California, an interest in the relationship between speech and consciousness, and extensive engagement with the various social practices and feminist histories of Los Angeles and her current city of residence, Houston, TX. She has had recent solo exhibitions at Adjunct Positions and AWHRHWAR in Los Angeles. Selected exhibitions include Ballroom Marfa (TX), Night Gallery (LA), Galerie Catherine Bastide (BR), Kendall Koppe (UK), Commonwealth & Council (LA), Klaus Von Nichtssagend (NY), Machine Project (LA), Hammer Museum (LA), Luckman Gallery at CalState LA, and Pomona Museum (CA).

In addition to her solo practice, Mayer works with Jemima Wyman as part of the collaborative duo CamLab, which has staged events and exhibited in Los Angeles at MOCA, the Hammer Museum, Armory Center for the Arts, and Wildness at the Silver Platter. In 2017 they received a Fellowship from The Woman's Building and Metabolic Studio (CA).

Mayer was Assistant Director of the LA-based Institute for Figuring, a "feral organization", from 2009-2018. She is currently Assistant Professor of Sculpture at the University of Houston.