ANNA BOYIAZIS, USA

Her storytelling suspends the illusions of human separation. Through her work, she aims to elicit compassion and bring our shared humanity to the fore. Her exhibitions include the 2017 Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize, National Portrait Gallery, London; Dysturb #WOMENMATTER Campaign Against Violence Toward Women, Preus Museum, Norway; Women Photograph “Insider/Outsider” Exhibition, Photoville, New York City; Arte Fiera: Women in Multimedia, Spazio Labo’ Centro di Fotografia, Bologna; and the Havana Biennial, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Wifredo Lam, Havana. She is recipient of both the City of Los Angeles (C.O.L.A.) Individual Artist Fellowship and the Eddie Adams Workshop XXV Los Angeles Times Assignment Award.

Her work has been recognized by Arles Voies Off, ASMP, CENTER, Center for Cultural Innovation, FotoVisura, Médecins Sans Frontières, Photocrati Fund, and Prix de la Photographie Paris. Anna earned an MFA from the Yale University School of Art and a BA from the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture. Anna’s involvement with photography deepened in 2006, inspiring a mid-career transition into photography. She spent the early years of her career designing a variety of publications — predominantly books — in close collaboration with international art and architecture organizations. Projects included the design of Morphosis, architecture monograph by Pritzker Prize Laureate Thom Mayne (Phaidon Press), and Paradise Cage: Kiki Smith and Coop Himmelblau (The Museum of Contemporary Art [MOCA], Los Angeles).

Anna taught at both Art Center College of Design and the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture, and served a teaching fellowship at the Yale University School of Art, as Head Designer at MOCA and as Visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome. Her design work was recognized by The American Center for Design, the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA), and Communication Arts, among others. Her work is in the permanent collections of the AIGA Archives at the Denver Art Museum, the UCLA Arts Library Artists’ Book Collection, the Yale University Art + Architecture Library, and the Yale University Sterling Memorial Library Arts of the Book Collection.