ARTIST BIOGRAPHY
Ann Burke Daly is an Intermedia Artist, whose conceptual time-based artwork has appeared in Artforum, Artpress International, The Los Angeles Times, Cabinet Magazine, PAJ/Performing Arts Journal, and El Pais. Her practice embraces the discontinuities and contradictions that are inherent within time and memory, documentary and fiction. Ann earned an MFA from the Yale School of Art, Painting Program, and is an alum of the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, in Studio Art. She has exhibited internationally including The Alternative Museum, Lombard-Freid Gallery, White Columns, Exit Art, The Drawing Center, Linda Kirkland Gallery, Trial Balloon (NY); LAMAG (CA); LaCentrale Galerie Powerhouse (Montreal); Uppsala KonstMuseum (Sweden); Centre Pompidou (Paris); Akademie der Kunste (Berlin); Museum fur Neue Kunst-ZKM (Karlsrühe).
Ann is currently a semi-finalist in the 2025 Creative Capital Awards Competition. For 2024, Ann received a New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) Award in Interdisciplinary Arts for sound artworks Mapping Vapours, Act II Sonic Fields. In 2022–2023 she received a Millay Arts Core Residency Award in Visual Art for Mapping Vapours; a New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) Pandemic Grant; a Porter Fund Prize from the Berkshire Taconic Foundation also for Mapping Vapours; and a Puffin Foundation Visual Art Grant for Restless Language, Restlessly Yours. In 2021 Ann was the Artist-in-Residence at VCFA in the Visual Arts MFA Program, and in 2018, was awarded a Yaddo Visual Artist Residency. In 2019 her work was the focus of a conference and screening at Universidad De Castilla–LaMancha, Spain, Half-Life: Recent Multidisciplinary Works by Ann Burke Daly. The project Half-Life, was a culture feature in El Pais, also in 2019. Ann was awarded a 2016 Artist Residency at MASS MoCA Studios, returning in 2017, and was a Visiting Artist at The American Academy in Rome in 2015. In 2015 she was a fellow at Creative Capital and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Artist's Summer Institute (ASI) on Governor's Island, NY.
Daly's awards also include an Art Matters Foundation Fellowship, funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (CAAD, cross disciplinary), the John Anson Kittredge grant (Harvard), and she was selected for a John Michael Kohler Center Arts/Industry Program Award. She was a finalist in 2019 for the Virginia Humanities Fellowship for Restless Language, Restlessly Yours. Her artists' books — Drafts: Letters Unsent, and Box of Fiction — were published by Roman Nvmerals Books, Brooklyn, NY. Daly taught at Vassar College (1990-95) and CUNY (2013-2015). She has work in public and private collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art Thomas J. Watson Collection (New York, NY), The Museum of Modern Art Library (New York, NY), the Museum of Contemporary Photography (MoCP, Chicago, IL), the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, CT), and MassArt Rare Book Collection (Boston, MA).
Ann Burke Daly’s Spatiotemporal practice includes sculpture; sound; video; performative task-based actions; drawing; wax casting; writing; recorded spoken narrations; research; and objects (found, made, and altered). Her work mines the paradoxes of language and the unconscious; the vagaries of memory and perception; subjectivity; unseen histories; the terrain of the psyche. Ann is currently at work on a new project Mapping Vapours (In Three Acts) which is a meditation on loss and the shifting contours of self—through the prism of subjectivity, environmental toxins, family history, and interior domestic spaces—using transformed field-recordings in sound, drawings, beeswax castings, and narrative fragments. This work draws from her earlier project The Automaton Olympia's Cabinet of Curiosities. Since 1992, Daly’s practice has been at the nexus of installation, performance, and conceptual art using an expanded sensory range including sound, haptics, bodily awareness (proprioception), time, smell, vision, and a “pseudo-forensic” slow process of creating and recording traces of task-based actions which are collected and staged for encounter. An autobiographical element and expanded sensory range is part of Daly’s practice, as is an emphasis on visceral experience and expansive scale.
Studio Contact
Contact the studio here for more information about Ann's work.Some reviews and exhibition information can be found on this page: reviews & publications and on academia.edu. You can find Ann on Instagram.
Photo:
Ann Burke Daly at Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, New York; Artist Residency for Ghost Transmissions Trilogy (Pigeon Barn West Studio).
Acknowledgements
Thanks go to these Institutions:
New York State Council on the Arts; 2024 Individual Artist Award, Interdisciplinary Art • MILLAY ARTS; 2023 April Core Residency, Visual Art; NYFA; Artists Pandemic Grant 2022 • Berkshire Taconic Foundation; Martha Boschen Porter Fund Prize • Puffin Foundation; Visual Art Grant 2022 • Yale Women Faculty Forum; Art, Feminism, Dialogue panel with Professor Laura Wexler, 2021 • VCFA; Artist-In-Residence, 2021 • Wesleyan University; Visiting Artist, 2020 • UCLM Universidad De Castilla–LaMancha (ES); Visiting Artist Conference, 2019, Half-Life: Ann Burke Daly Obra Reciente • Brumario (ES); Half-Life created in association with this Madrid cultural organization • YADDO; Visual Artist Residency, 2018 • Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; Interdisciplinary Arts Grant, 2017 • Loeb Museum: Other People's Pictures, 2017 • MASS MoCA ; Artist Residency 2016 • Creative Capital; On Our Radar, 2016 and 2017 • Puffin Foundation; Arts Grant 2016 • American Academy in Rome; Visiting Artist 2015 • LMCC (Lower Manhattan Cultural Council) + Creative Capital; Artists Summer Institute, 2015 • UnFramed + Susan Stein Shiva Theater; Performance-Event Sponsors: Conversations & Specters, 2016 • Women Make Movies; Fiscal Sponsor, NYSCA film and video 2019 • Roman Nvmerals Books; Published Volumes XVII + LVII, 2016 • Vassar College; Art Faculty 1990–1995 • CUNY, City University of New York; Visiting Faculty, 2013–2015 • Yale School of Art; MFA 1990 • The Whitney Museum of American Art, Independent Study Program (ISP); Fellow, Studio Art, 1993–1994. ABD Studio is also grateful to many individuals for participation and dialogue.