Anna Franc is a New York based video and net artist. Usually internet serves as network that hosts many individual, fully encapsulated, unconnected artistic efforts. These artistic islands, despite occasionally referencing each other, do not form an internet-aesthetic whole. Nor has internet yet been used as means to build works of art requiring high degree of artistic collaboration, not possible in the physical world. Anna Frants is known to work on the projects that would bring different artists together embracing the greatest communication medium that ever existed — the Internet.
Her accomplishments reflect the broad range of interests she has. She has been awarded the top prize for the best 3D computer animation at the prestigious computer graphics competitions such as Autodesk Planet Studio Award. She has participated in and curated numerous art exhibitions in United States and Russia, for number of years have been teaching media studies and animation and also published articles on art. Works can be found in KyoseinoSato Contemporary Art Museum (Japan) and in private collections.
Exhibits and festivals:
April 2006 “CIGE’ Beijing, China
April 2006 “Unauthorized access’ Hermitage Museum, Russia
October 2005 “The Window” KuoseinoSato Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan
May 2005 “Sarchofagus Ghanian style or fineral of a dreamer” BerlinerKunst Project Gallery, Berlin
October 2004 Exhibition “Touch_me” Broadway Gallery, NY
July 2004 Exhibition “"Sarcophagus, Ghanaian Style, or The funeral of a Dreamer",
St. Petersburg, Russia
December 2003 “From Leningrad to St. Petersburg” Chelsea Museum of Art, New York
October 2003 Exhibition “ Touch” Anna Ahmatova’s museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
January 2003 Red Shift Festival. New York. Red Shift Festival is dedicated to the work of Russian cinematographers and animators living abroad.
January 30, 2002. Gallery "D-137". St. Petersburg, Russia "The language of symbols in dimentions of Arts"
May 11-12th 2001 “Art Boat” festival. New York.
November 8th 1991 “Small and Miniature” Aaron Gallery, Washington DC
October 19th 1990 “Small and Miniature” Aaron Gallery, Washington DC
Exhibitions curated:
April 2006 “Unauthorized access’ Hermitage Museum, Russia “Sarchofagus Ghanian style or fineral of a dreamer” BerlinerKunst Project Gallery,
May 4th 2005- May 28th 2005 Berliner Kunstprojekt gallery (Berlin) Exhibition "Alexander Baturin and Galina Pisareva"
December 10 2004 - January 10 2005 Frants Gallery Space (NY) 1-30 October, 2004. «Broadway Gallery», (NY) Exhibition of American and Russian artists
"Flowers and Clay" Exhibition of works by Pelageya Shuriga (St. Petersburg) May 14th-June 14th 2004 Frants Gallery Space Exhibition «Art Around the Barracks» 12 December-12 January 2003 Frants Gallery Space (NY) "Touch me" Exhibition of St. Petersburg and New York artists 10 October - 10 November 2003
Anna Akhmatova museum in the Fontanni Dom St Petersburg Arts Project (NY) in association with "Russki Album" (Russia), School 33 Art Center (USA) present series of exhibitions "Baltic mist" in gallery "Kvadrat" St. Petersburg
October 4 - 26 2003 Susann Whitier "Rolling Hills" and Sun J. Park "Collection of Souls"
June, 7 - June, 22 2003: Laura Drougul "Smell Fabric"
May, 24 - June, 5 2003 Liza Moren "Record, Record..." and Ruth Pettus "PLAZA, PIAZZA, Square" "Russian Cosmos"
St. Petersburg artists' exhibition
May, 9 2003 New York Frants Gallery Space "Vivat St.Petersburg Festival"
“Moving Objects” presentation.
Baltimore, USA, February, 13 - March, 2 2003
"All sorts of people"
St. Petersburg artists exhibition
New-York, Frants Gallery Space, December, 6 2002 - January,15 2003 St.Petersburg Artists' exhibition
New York, UN HQ, USA, May 23-31, 2002. "Abstract Reflections"
New-York, April 19, 2002 Frants Gallery Space "The language of symbols in dimentions of Arts"
January 30, 2002. Gallery "D-137".St.Petersburg, Russia "Art-Boat" Festival
New-York, May 11-12 2001 Stolen Dreams
New York, April 28 2001 Virtual Games. A search for possibilities.
St.Petersburg, January 31 2001 |
