Anna Kristensen (b. 1983, Gadigal Country/Sydney, Australia; l. Brooklyn, NY, USA) 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 received an MFA in Sydney, Australia in 2009 at the University of New South Wales Art & Design, with a year of postgraduate study at the Universität der Künste, Berlin, Germany. She has taught at UNSWAD Sydney, Australia (2009-2016), Rutgers University, Newark, USA (2019 -2021) and CUNY Queens College, NYC, USA (2022-2025).

She 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. Group exhibitions include Spacing Out, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth (2023); Out of Place, curated by Oscar Carpezio, Drill Hall Gallery, Australian National University, Canberra (2021); Solid State, curated by Michael Do, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Sydney (2015); Picture Perfect, Viasaterna, Milan (2015); and Seven Points, curated by Bree Pickering, Embassy of Australia Gallery, Washington DC (2013). Her work is held in the collections of Artbank; the Cruthers Collection of Women’s Art, University of Western Australia; Lendlease; Murray Art Museum Albury; Shepparton Art Museum; and the Art Gallery of Western Australia.