Bio
Anne Lindberg’s recent exhibitions include Hangar Y (Paris), Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, The Textile Museum at George Washington University Museums, Everson Museum of Art, Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, Figge Art Museum, Museum of Arts and Design, Thomas Cole Historic Site, John Michael Kohler Art Center, Manitoga | The Russel Wright Design Center, University of Minnesota Regis Center for the Arts, The Landing, and Secrist Beach among others. Lindberg is currently working toward a solo exhibition at the Academy Art Museum (Easton, MD), a group exhibition at the Hudson River Museum (Yonkers, NY) and a collaborative exhibition with poet Ginny Threefoot at T Space (Steven Myron Holl Foundation in Rhinebeck, NY).
Lindberg’s solo and group exhibitions include: The Drawing Center, New York; Tegnerforbundet, Norway; SESC Bom Retiro, Sao Paulo; Mattress Factory; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Contemporary Art Museum of Raleigh; U.S. Embassy Yangon Myanmar; Atlanta Contemporary Art Center; Bemis Center for Contemporary Art; Akron Art Museum; Cranbrook Art Museum; Atlanta Contemporary Art Center; Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati; Laumeier Sculpture Park; The Warehouse Dallas; Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna; SEPTEMBER and the Omi International Art Center.
Fourteen of Lindberg’s drawings were recently acquired by the U.S. Consulate in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. In 2023, a five-story mirrored glass wall drawing (9x60 feet on each floor) was commissioned for NYU Langone Health’s new women’s health center in New York, NY. Lindberg is currently working on a large-scale public art commission for the Des Moines International Airport, completion late 2026.
Lindberg’s work is held in the collections of the Nevada Museum of Art, Everson Museum of Art, Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, Akron Art Museum, Detroit Institute of Art, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, The Rachofsky Collection, Collection of Christy and Bill Gautreaux, Spencer Museum of Art, NYSE Chicago, Federal Reserve Bank Kansas City, Niwako Kimono Company, among many others. A monograph of Lindberg’s work was released in 2022 by Durer Editions (Dublin, Ireland).
Lindberg is recipient of awards including a 2011 Painters & Sculptors Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant, Charlotte Street Foundation Fellowship, two ArtsKC Fund Inspiration Grants, Lighton International Artists Exchange grant, Art Omi International Artists Residency, American Institute of Architects Allied Arts and Crafts award, and Mid-America National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. She holds a BFA from Miami University and an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art.
Solo Exhibitions
2025 waves within, Haw Contemporary, Kansas City, MO
2024 Secrist | Beach, Of all colors, Chicago, IL Upstate Diary, Between, outdoor sculptural installation, Highland, NY - October 2024 feature, photographs by Carlton Davis, essay by Laura vanStraaten
2023 The Textile Museum, Anne Lindberg: what is the color of divine light?, George Washington University Museums, Washington, DC Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, passage (installation) and grene (drawing), Little Rock, AR - thru 2026 Carrie Secrist Gallery, Afterimage, exhibition & book release event, Chicago, IL
2022 Haw Contemporary, Spectrum, exhibition, book release event, Kansas City, MO Figge Art Museum, Anne Lindberg - think like the river / with poet Ginny Threefoot, Davenport, IA Nancy Littlejohn Fine Art, temperatures, Houston, TX
2021 The Landing, a new light, Los Angeles, CA Shelter in Place Gallery, saffron fog, curated by Caroline Kipp as part of Light and Shadow
2018 Museum of Arts and Design, the eye's level, New York, NY
2018 Haw Contemporary, broken-riddle piece, collaborative exhibition with poet Ginny Threefoot, Kansas City
2018 Contemporary Art Museum, the long sun, Raleigh, NC
2017 Carrie Secrist Gallery, walking as I stand, Chicago, IL
2016 Omi International Art Center, fold and unfold, Ghent, NY
2016 Haw Contemporary, in tandem, Kansas City, MO
2015 Carrie Secrist Gallery, drawn below, Chicago, IL
2014 Haw Contemporary, drawn together, Kansas City, MO
2014 Carrie Secrist Gallery, I have always been going North, Chicago, IL
2013 Pentimenti Gallery, chroma, Philadelphia, PA
2013 Dolphin Gallery, shift, Kansas City, MO
2012 Carrie Secrist Gallery, sustaining pedal, Chicago, IL
2012 Nevada Museum of Art, modal lines, Reno, NV
2011 University of Central Missouri, Successu, Warrensburg, MO
2010 Cynthia Reeves Gallery, New York, NY
2006-07 Dolphin Gallery, parallels, Kansas City, MO
2005-06 Dennos Museum, bird / cloud, Traverse City, MI
2005 Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, air / mass, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE
2005 Belger Art Center, silences, Kansas City, MO
2000 Meadows Gallery, lineage, University of Texas at Tyler
1999 Dolphin Gallery, land / lines, Kansas City, MO
1995 Moreau Galleries, Saint Mary’s College, Freckles, Notre Dame, IN
1990 Artemisia Gallery, Built of the Sky, Chicago, IL
Selected Group Exhibitions
2020 Carrie Secrist Gallery, Only Connect, Chicago, IL
2020 Manitoga, Russell Wright Home & Studio, cycles of seeing, iterative drawing installation, Garrison, NY
2020 Thornwillow Press, Lost and Proud, curated by Candice Madey, River Valley Arts Collective
2020 Everson Museum of Art, AbStranded, curated by Elizabath Dunbar, Syracuse, NY
2020 Katherine E. Nash Gallery at the Regis Center for Art, The Beginning of Everything: An Exhibition of Drawings, University of Minnesota
2019 Josee Bienvenu Gallery, SĪMURĞ, group exhibition curated by Muriel Quancard, New York, NY
2019 John Michael Kohler Art Center, Lenore Tawney: Mirror of the Universe, multi-exhibition project and publication, Even Thread Has a Speech, curated by Shannon Stratton, Sheboygan, WI
2019 SEPTEMBER, Nowhere and Everywhere, with Sarah Braman and Mary Ellen Strom, Hudson, NY
2019 SEPTEMBER, Yellow, Hudson NY
2019 Laumeier Sculpture Park, How We See: The Materiality of Color, St. Louis, MO
2019 Josee Bienvenu Gallery, microwave x, New York, NY
2018 The Warehouse Dallas, Topologies, curated by Mika Yoshitake from the Howard & Cindy Rachofsky Collection, Dallas, TX
2018 Thomas Cole Historic Site, Spectrum, curated by Kiki Smith & Kate Menconeri, Catskill, NY
2018 September Gallery, Still Life, curated by Kristen Dodge and Candice Madey, Hudson, NY
2018 LABspace, True North, Hillsdale, NY
2018 LABspace, The Nature Lab, Hillsdale, NY
2017 Haw Contemporary, Every Street, Kansas City, MO
2017 Greenlease Gallery, Rockhurst University, Pattern Languages, Kansas City, MO
2017 September Gallery, Post-Election Show, Hudson, NY
2016 Josee Bienvenu Gallery, good news, New York, NY
2016 Akron Art Museum, Intersections: Artists Master Line and Space, Akron, OH
2016 Cynthia Reeves Gallery, Graphite and Metal Point, Walpole, NH
2015 Haw Contemporary, You People, Kansas City, MO
2015 The Mattress Factory, Factory Installed (shift lens), Pittsburgh, PA
2015 University of Wyoming Art Museum, Ley Lines, Laramie, WY
2014 Contemporary Arts Center, Un-made: Anne Lindberg & Saskia Olde Wolbers, curated by Steven Matijico, Cincinnati, OH
2014 Galerie Hubert Winter, Sleepless Nights, curated by Abigail Solomon Godeau, Vienna Austria, part of city-wide project called The Century of the Bed, Curatedby_Vienna
2014 Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Landscape Abstracted, curated by Al Miner, Boston, MA
2014 Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Coloring, Atlanta, GA
2013 Haw Contemporary, OPEN, Kansas City, MO
2013 Carrie Secrist Gallery, New Work from Kansas City, Chicago, IL
2013 Dolphin Gallery, Thanks for the Warning, Kansas City, MO
2013 US Embassy, Art in Embassies exhibition, Rangoon, Burma
2012 Masters & Pelavin Gallery, Silence, New York, NY
2012 Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Placemakers, Omaha, NE
2012 Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Abstract Kansas City, Overland Park, KS
2011 Dolphin Gallery, Push, Kansas City, MO
2011 Bom Retiro Cultural Center, Licoes da Linha, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2011 Tegnerforbundet, Extended Drawing, Oslo, Norway
2011 Grunwald Gallery, Line-Age, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
2011 Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City Abstracts, Overland Park, KS
2011 Leedy Voulkos Arts Center, America: Now & Here, Kansas City, MO
2010 Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Museum Interrupted, Overland Park, KS
2010 Chapman Gallery, Drawing Equivalents, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS
2010 The Newport Mill, Fabrications, Newport, NH
2010 KCAI Artspace, 2010 Kansas City Flatfiles, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
2009 The Drawing Center, Apparently Invisible Selections Spring 2009, New York, NY
2009 Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Lipstick Traces, Women in the Collection, Sedalia, MO
2009 Zeitgeist Gallery, I Thought Our Worlds Were the Same, Nashville, TN
2009 Dolphin Gallery, New Works, Kansas City, MO
2008 Concord Art Association, Thoreau Reconsidered, Concord, MA
2008 Dolphin Gallery, On Liberty, Kansas City, MO
2008 Dolphin Gallery, Painting Removed for Art's Sake, Kansas City, MO
2008 Reading Art Museum, Hot House, Reading, PA
2008 LaEsquina / Urban Culture Project, Locate/Navigate, Kansas City, MO
2007 Cranbrook Art Museum, Hot House, Bloomfield Hills, MI
2007 Dolphin Gallery, New Works, Kansas City, MO
2007 Glyndor Gallery at Wave Hill, Thoreau Reconsidered, Bronx, NY
2007 Paragraph Gallery, Systems: Working Drawings, Kansas City, MO
2006 Linda Ross Contemporary, From the Ground Up, Clawson, MI
2006 Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Decelerate, Kansas City, MO
2005 Linda Ross Contemporary at Next Step Studio, Black and White, Ferndale, MI
2005 Urban Culture Project, We Buy Art, Kansas City, MO
2003 Sybaris Gallery, Going Forward, Royal, Oak, MI
2003 Dolphin, Kansas City, MO
2002 Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Awakenings, Sedalia, MO
2002 Sybaris Gallery, Royal Oak, MI
2002 Snyderman - Works Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2002 Dolphin, side by side, Kansas City, MO
2001 Russell Hill Rogers Gallery at Southwest School of Arts, Drawing the Thread, San Antonio, TX
2001 Dolphin, Summer Show, Kansas City, MO
2001 Plaza Gallery, Small Stone, Tokyo, Japan
2000 Avenue for the Arts, Kansas City, MO, outdoor sculpture commission
2000 Synderman Gallery, Pertaining to Line, Philadelphia, PA
1998 The Writer’s Place, en response, Kansas City, MO
1998 Loft 122, Charlotte Street 1998, Kansas City, MO
1998 Network Gallery, Clarity of Seduction, Pontiac, MI
1997 Dolphin, an approximate geography, Kansas City, MO
1997 Kansas City Artists Coalition, What’s in the Air, Kansas City, MO
1997 The Levee, traveling print portfolio: Musee de Beaux Arts de Sherbrooke, Quebec; Kogeimura Paper
1997 School Gallery in Inimachi, Japan and Spheris Gallery in Walpole, NH, Sam Francis Gallery in Santa Monica, CA, Grinnell College Print & Drawing Study Room; Manhattan Graphics Center, New York
1996 Delta College, Pattern, Surface, Language, University Park, MI
1996 el dorado, inc., 4Tangents, Kansas City, MO
1996 Macalester College Art Gallery, Cloth Reveries, St. Paul, MN
1996 Dolphin, 4 Years, 35 Artists, Kansas City, MO
1996 The U.S. and Us, an invitational exhibition in New Zealand
1995 Armstrong Gallery, Cornell College, Mt. Vernon, IA
1995 Katherine E. Nash Gallery, Material Poetry, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN
1995 Central Exchange, Art from Academe, Kansas City, MO
1995 Hatton Gallery, Colorado State University, Extracts, Fort Collins, CO
1994 Gallery Muu and Senbikiya Gallery, Inner Vision, Kyoto and Tokyo, Japan
1994 Textile Arts Centre, Survey, collaborative work by Anne Lindberg & Piper Shepard, Chicago, IL
1994 Palm Beach Community College Gallery, Wall and Floor, Lake Worth, FL
1993 Central Exchange, Art From Academe: Into the Nineties, Kansas City, MO
1993 Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Pattern: New Form, New Function, Gatlinburg, TN
1992 International Shibori Symposium, Nagoya Citizen’s Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
1992 Carleton Art Gallery, Carleton College, Unspoken Roots, Northfield, MN
1992 Dolphin, 661/7,932 turn, collaborative installation with Piper Shepard, Kansas City
1992 University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Project Art, Iowa City, IA
1992 Dolphin, Portraits, Kansas City, MO
1991 Charlotte Crosby Kemper Gallery, Kansas City Art Institute, KCAI Fellows, Kansas City, MO
1991 Hancher Auditorium, University of Iowa, Women Artists, Iowa City, IA
1991 Minnesota Museum of Art, Four Voices, St. Paul, MN
1990 Adams Art Gallery, Dunkirk, NY
1990 Littman Gallery, Oregon State University, Portland, OR
1990 Minnesota Gallery of the Institute, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, The Other Foot in the Door
1989 Brooks Hall Gallery, North Carolina State University, Constructed Form, Raleigh, NC
1989 Katherine E. Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota, Museum Workers Show, Minneapolis, MN
1989 Aichi Prefecture Industry & Trade Hall, Bridging Worlds with Shibori, Chubu Traditional Textile Craft Research & Study Association, Nagoya, Japan
1989 The Berkshire Museum, Surface and Substance, Pittsfield, MA
1989 Holter Museum of Art, Helena, MT