Photo: Philip Laubner

Anna Child (b. South Carolina) is a Baltimore-based artist whose abstract paintings and prints embrace doubt and disorientation as generative forces. Working through layering, scraping, and reversal, she develops surfaces that remain provisional and open to transformation. Her practice proposes joy not as escape, but as a radical response to difficulty—works that hover between collapse and order, alive to change.

Child studied at the New York Studio School (2021–2024) and the Maryland Institute College of Art (2020–2023) and was a Penland School of Craft Core Fellow. In 2024–25, her work was supported by multiple Maryland State Arts Council grants, a Bethesda Painting Prize, and residencies at Woodstock Byrdcliffe, Vermont Studio Center, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Chalk Hill, and Jentel. A suite of her monotypes, printed by Phil Sanders, was published by PS Marlowe (Asheville, NC) in 2025 and will be presented at INK Miami later this year. She will return to Vermont Studio Center in 2026 as a VSC Fellow. 

Photo: Paul Cary Goldberg