Anna Kristensen creates photorealist paintings that bring attention to the overlooked. Placed in carefully constructed constellations with conceptually driven sculpture, her work extends into the physical space of the viewer, opening a dialogue with the body, objects and architecture. Each exhibition offers a lucid reflection on the conditions of matter, surface and time — both the time-laden investment of the making of the paintings and the observation of a universe in flux.

Kristensen has presented solo exhibitions at Bathurst Regional Art Gallery; The Commercial, Sydney; Ditch Projects, Springfield, Oregon; Gallery 9, Sydney; Kalimanrawlins, Melbourne; Shepparton Art Museum; and Wollongong Art Gallery. She has undertaken several residencies in the USA: Vermont Studio Center (fellowship, 2019), MASS MoCA (2020, 2019), Art OMI International Arts Centre, Ghent, New York (2020, 2018), The Australia Council for the Arts’ Greene Street Studio in New York (2013) and the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha (2013). She was a recipient of an Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant (2019). She was awarded a Master of Fine Arts (Research) by the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney in 2009. In 2007, she was a visiting student at the Universität der Künste, Berlin (class of Anette Haas). Recently, she has held the position of Adjunct Professor at Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey, USA, teaching painting.