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Biography
Anna Hepler works in media including sculpture, drawing, photography, digital animation, installation, and printmaking. She currently lives and works in Portland, Maine.
Hepler exhibits both nationally and internationally, and completed several solo shows this year including DRAWINGS - Center for Maine Contemporary Art, NEW WORKS - ICON Contemporary Art, and PROJECTION ROOMS - SPACE Gallery, Portland, Maine. She has exhibited in numerous group shows among them The 2006 DeCordova Annual Exhibition, Organizing the World; Sculptural Interventions, 2002, Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM, and The Gift, 2000, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan. Hepler’s work can be found in the National Gallery of Art, the Tate Gallery, The DeCordova Museum, as well as many college and university special collections.
Selected as a recipient of the 1999-2000 Luce Foundation Fellowship, Hepler lived in Seoul, South Korea during which she produced a solo exhibition titled CONDUIT, and co-founded FACTORY, an on-going collaboration of international artists. Hepler completed her second visiting artist residency at the Tamarind Institute in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 2004 where she produced a suite of lithographs in collaboration with resident master printers. She has been awarded residencies at Centrum Center for the Arts, WA, Penland School, NC, Illinois State University, and the Oregon College of Art and Craft. In 2003, Anna Hepler founded THE MAP ROOM, an exhibition space in Portland, Maine devoted to showing works on paper and hosting experimental installations.
Hepler has traveled extensively in the United States, Europe and Asia, residing for extended periods in South Korea and The Netherlands.
Currently a faculty member in the Art Department at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, Hepler has held faculty appointments also at the Maine College of Art, the Oregon College of Art and Craft, and Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington. After attending Oberlin College, Hepler received her MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1994.
