ANN PIBAL / BIO – EXHIBITIONS – WRITING – CONTACT – @ANNPIBAL
Over two decades, Ann Pibal has produced an extensive body of work based in a critical investigation of the history and possibilities of abstract painting. Her use of diagrammatic imagery establishes a middle-ground between the hypothetical and the sensual; both are narrative trajectories within her compositions. Prioritizing the potential of color and of transitional light, Pibal engages with the depiction of luminosity itself, emphasizing the relationship inherent between color and time. Her long-standing use of pairs, mirroring surfaces, and doubled, reflected imagery create a structure that is both self-referential as well as expansive in its examination of the implications and phenomenon of representation and shifting realities of perception and understanding.
Pibal’s work has been supported with awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Tiffany Foundation, The Joan Mitchell Foundation, The Alex Katz Foundation, The New York Foundation for the Arts, The Pollock Krasner Foundation, the Rappaport Foundation, among others.
Her work has been exhibited widely in the United States and abroad since her first solo show in New York in 2004. Exhibition venues have included Team Gallery, Lucien Terras Gallery, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., Feature Inc., Max Protetch Gallery, Meulensteen Gallery, Paula Cooper Gallery, in New York, Team Bungalow in Los Angeles, Rhona Hoffman and The Suburban in Chicago, Slewe Gallery in Amsterdam, Petra Rinck Galerie in Düsseldorf, dePury and Luxembourg in Zurich, and Pifo Gallery in Beijing.
She has been included in group exhibitions such as Greater New York at PS1 Moma, The Painted World at PS1 Moma, That Place and Unfolding Tales, at the Brooklyn Museum, Background Image at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, From Beyond the Window at the University of Minnesota, Reductive Minimalism, Women Artists in Dialogue, at the University of Michigan, Sightlines at American University, Now-Ism, Abstraction Today, at Pizutti Collection, The Jewel Thief at the Tang Museum, The DeCordova Biennial and Expanding Abstraction, at Decordova Museum, and A Short History of Abstraction at Rønnebæksholm, Copenhagen.
Public collections include The Brooklyn Museum, The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The Albright Knox Art Gallery, The Hirshhorn Museum, Smithsonian Institution, and the Yale School of Art Museum, deCordova Museum, among others.
INSTALLATION AND STUDIO VIEWS, 2022-2024 /
Selected Exhibitions:
REVOLUTIONS: ART FROM THE HIRSHHORN COLLECTION,
1860-1960
The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC
March, 2024 – June 23, 2025
Nicolas Party, Amoako Boafo, David Alekhuogie, Barbara Kasten, Ann Pibal, Dyani White Hawk, Paul Pfeiffer, Catherine Opie, Abraham Cruzvillegas, Nathaniel Mary Quinn, Torkwase Dyson, Rick Lowe, Aliza Nisenbaum, Loie Hollowell, Dawoud Bey, Sally Mann, Annette Lemieux, Rashid Johnson, Flora Yukhnovich
50 PAINTINGS
The Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
November 17, 2023 – June 19, 2024
Marina Adams, Peter Barrickman, Cecily Brown, Matt Connors, Angela Dufresne, David Diao, Torkwase Dyson, Thomas Eggerer, Nicole Eisenman, Rao Fu, Jorge Galindo, Maureen Gallace, April Gornik, Magalie Guérin, Raul Guerrero, Peter Halley, Josephine Halvorson, Mary Heilmann, Charline von Heyl, Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds, Jacqueline Humphries, Xylor Jane, Yun-Fei Ji, Jennie C. Jones, Brad Kohlhammer, Judy Ledgerwood, Caitlin Lonegan, Tala Madani, Cameron Martin, Eddie Martinez, Rebecca Morris, Sarah Morris, Carmen Neely, Laura Owens, Paul P, GaHee Park, Ann Pibal, Fiona Rae, Cinga Samson, Amy Sherald, Amy Sillman, Pat Seir, Philip Taaffe, Jake Troyli, Tristan Unrau, Lesley Vance, Sophie Von Hellermann, Julia Wachtel, Dan Walsh, Lisa Yuskavage.
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