Anne Appleby

Anne Appleby received her BFA from the University of Montana in 1977 and her Master of Fine Arts from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1989. In addition to this formal training, she apprenticed for 15 years with Ojibwe elder Ed Barbeau where she learned the art of detailed and sustained observation. She has had solo exhibitions in the U.S. and Europe and participated in group exhibitions in institutions including Tacoma Art Museum, the American Academy in Rome, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, where in 1996 she was awarded the SECA Art Award. She was also the 1999 recipient of the Biennial Award from the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation in New York and in 2006 received a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant. Her works are in the collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Fine Art Museums of San Francisco, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, and the San Jose Museum of Art, among others.

[source: artist’s resume]