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Anna Sew Hoy (born 1976, Auckland, New Zealand) is an American sculptor based in Los Angeles, California.[1] She utilizes sculpture, ceramics, public art and performance to connect with our environment, and to demonstrate the power found in the fleeting and handmade. Her work has been at the forefront of a re-engagement with clay in contemporary art, and is identified with a critical rethinking of the relationship between art and craft.
Solo presentations of Sew Hoy’s work have been mounted at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Hammer Museum, the Orange County Museum of Art, the MOCA Storefront, Los Angeles;[2] Koenig & Clinton, New York;[3] Aspen Art Museum, Colorado;[4] San Jose Museum of Art;[5] and Sikkema Jenkins & Company, New York.[6] She is a recipient of the 2021 Anonymous Was a Woman Award[7] and in 2018, she was the inaugural Martha Longenecker Roth Distinguished Artist in Residence at the Department of Visual Arts, University of California, San Diego.[8] Sew Hoy’s largest public sculpture to date, Psychic Body Grotto, opened at Los Angeles State Historic Park in Spring 2017,[9] commissioned by Los Angeles Nomadic Division (LAND)[10] and supported by a 2015 Creative Capital Award for Visual Arts.[11] Her work is in the collections of the Hammer Museum at UCLA, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), and Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD).