awareness: anna park
- Dec 20, 2025
- 2 min read
Anna Park is an American visual artist known for her monumental charcoal drawings that balance between abstraction and figuration. Born in South Korea and raised in Salt Lake City, Utah, she later moved to New York, where she continues to live and work.
website: https://www.annaparkart.com/
education
MFA, New York Academy of Art
Certificate of Fine Arts, New York Academy of Art
Previously studied at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn
career highlights / CV
AXA Art Prize – First Prize Winner (2019)
Strokes of Genius 11: Finding Beauty – Grand Prize (2019)
Her work was recognized and shared publicly by KAWS while she was still in graduate school
Major institutional collections include:
High Museum of Art (Atlanta)
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami
Pérez Art Museum Miami
exhibitions
SCAD Museum of Art (2023) – Last Call (major solo museum exhibition)
The Drawing Center, New York (2020) – 100 Drawings from Now
T293 Gallery, Rome – first European solo exhibition
Group exhibitions at LACMA, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, and Public Art Fund, NYC
reflection
What immediately draws me to Anna Park’s work is its scale and emotional intensity. Her charcoal drawings feel overwhelming in a powerful way—the figures are often distorted, layered, or partially abstracted, which creates a sense of movement and chaos. The contrast between the values adds drama and depth, making the scenes feel heavy, crowded, and emotionally charged. One aspect of her process that stands out to me is how physical her work feels. The charcoal marks are bold, aggressive, and raw, which makes the emotions in her compositions feel honest and unfiltered. The feeling she creates in her pieces relate to the emotions I want to capture in my piece, but what is really interesting is how she uses the abstract marks to create this, instead of going completely realistic like my style. I think this could be really effective way to create emotion in my future works.
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