Photo: Phil Laubner

Anna Child (b. South Carolina) is a Baltimore-based painter and printmaker whose work explores the interplay of process, gesture, and material. Rooted in uncertainty and improvisation, her practice embraces rupture and repair—layering, scraping, undoing—as a way to make space for contradiction, instability, and joy.

She studied at the Maryland Institute College of Art (2020–2023) and the New York Studio School (2021–2024), and was a Core Fellow at Penland School of Craft. Over the past two years, she has received multiple Maryland State Arts Council grants and a Bethesda Painting Prize, and has held residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Woodstock Byrdcliffe, Chalk Hill, and Jentel. She will return to the Vermont Studio Center in 2026 as a VSC Fellow.

Recent solo and group exhibitions include Hiccups at Park View Gallery (Glen Echo, MD), supported by a Maryland State Arts Council Project Grant; The Power of Abstraction (Site:Brooklyn Gallery, NY, juried by Alexandra Terry); the Bethesda Painting Awards (Gallery B, MD); and the Byrdcliffe Artist-in-Residence Exhibition (Kleinert/James Center for the Arts, NY, curated by Jen Dragon, with catalogue). Her work has also been shown at the Peale Museum (Baltimore), Creative Alliance, and Seattle Artist League Gallery.

A suite of watercolor monotypes—created in collaboration with master printer Phil Sanders—will be published by PS Marlowe (Asheville, NC) later this year.

Photo: Paul Cary Goldberg