Anna Schuleit (born in 1974, in Mainz, Germany) is a visual artist who lives and works in the United States. She attended high school in the United States at Northfield Mount Hermon School before pursuing painting at the Rhode Island School of Design where she received her B.F.A. in 1998, and creative writing / book arts at Dartmouth College (M.A. in 2005).[1]
Her work has been featured in exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the University of Massachusetts Amherst; Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine; the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center; The Matzo Files, New York; the Mousonturm, Frankfurt, Germany; and the Carpenter Center at Harvard University, among others.[2]
She has been a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, the RISD European Honors Program in Rome, the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, Blue Mountain Center, the Banff Center, and Bogliasco.[3]
In 2006 Schuleit was named a MacArthur Fellow[3][4] for work that has "conceptual clarity, compassion, and beauty".
Her latest body of work, a series of paintings and works on paper titled Two People Ago, was exhibited at Coleman Burke Gallery in New York City during the fall of 2009. Her works in 2010 included a large outdoor commission, "Just a Rumor", for the University Gallery at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst and a set design for Ivy Baldwin Dance at the Chocolate Factory Theater in New York.