Anna Newman is a project based artist and curator. She explores themes of place and history through traditional and experimental photo series.
Anna is also an award winning filmmaker and documentary photographer, specializing in the stories of artists, engineers, and innovators.
She is currently pursuing a MFA in Visual Art at the University of Nevada, Reno.
Anna Newman lives and works in Reno, Nevada and the San Francisco Bay Area. Leaving a successful career in Silicon Valley to focus on a career in art, she is a PhotoLucida Critical Mass Finalist (2022) and the recipient of two Weston Scholarship awards in photography.
Anna’s documentary films have been exhibited at Sundance and many other film festivals as well as museums in the United States and Canada, including Design Exchange, Toronto, Chabot Space and Science Center, and Stanford Libraries. Anna is a MFA in Visual Art candidate (2025) at the University of Nevada, Reno and a BA graduate of Mills College. She is currently developing programming for the 2024 Holland Project Curator Series, Hand Wash Only.
anna (at) annanewmangroup (dot) com
Anna’s work resonates with history even as she creates fresh objects and images with beauty and power of their own. – Larry Rinder
SELECT PRESS
- Signs of the Times, Reno News and Review
- Birds of a Fiber Weave Together, New Haven Independent Review Crew
- Time Magazine Lightbox (via the Internet Archive)
- This Is Not a Toy: An Exhibition of Contemporary Art and Collectible Design, Toronto Guardian
- The Great Jazz Revival, San Francisco Chronicle
- Wade Krause: Pinball Artist, Victoria Texas Independent Film Festival Q&A
- Create on the Side Interview
- Porterville Recorder
- Keeping My Cool
- Film Courage
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