Maess Anand

Maess Anand (née: Malgorzata Skrzypek,^[1][2] also called Maess;^[3] born in 1982 in Warsaw^[1]) is a Polish visual artist who works with drawing.^[1][3]

Maess Anand
Born	1982 Warsaw, Poland
Alma mater	Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw
Known for	Drawing contemporary art
Website	maess.eu

Career

Anand graduated with MFA from Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts, Poland in 2007^[1][4] and was recipient of a scholarship at the Escola Superior de Artes e Design in Porto, Portugal.^[1]

Maess Anand has presented work in, among others: The Drawing Center^[5][6] in New York, Wroclaw Contemporary Museum,^[7][8] Kasia Michalski Gallery in Warsaw,^[9] The Starak Family Foundation in Warsaw,^[10] Kibla in Maribor, Slovenia,^[11] Warsaw Austrian Cultural Forum,^[12] in conjunction with the Warsaw Autumn Festival, Polish Institute in Budapest,^[4] BWA - Municipal Art Gallery of Bydgoszcz Poland and IK Projects^[13] in Lima, Peru.

The artist has been awarded following fellowships: Yaddo^[14] in Saratoga Springs, Residency Unlimited^[15] in New York, Adam Mickiewicz Institute in Warsaw, LIA Leipziger Baumwollspinnerei in Leipzig,^[16]Virginia Center for the Creative Arts^[17] in Amherst, Virginia and International Studio & Curatorial Program in New York.^[18]

With Alex Urso, Maess Anand curated Biennale de La Biche; the smallest biennale in the world held on a deserted island near Guadeloupe. Biennale de la Biche held in 2017 has been reviewed by The Guardian,^[19]Hyperallergic,^[20] Ming Pao,^[21]Artnet,^[22]Art Review,^[23] and The Observer.^[24]

Anand's work is held in the permanent collections of BWA - Municipal Art Gallery of Bydgoszcz in Poland^[25] and Imago Mundi Collection in Treviso, Italy.^[26]

Further reading

• KHRÔMA by women. Colour through the eyes of contemporary artists, Museu Carmen Thyssen, Andorra

Bibliography

• „The Day is Not Enough, a few autobiographical stories ( "Dzień jest za krótki-kilka opowieści autobiograficznych"), exhibition catalogue, ed. Ośrodek Kultury i Sztuki, p. 98–104, ed. Magdalena Ujma, ISBN 9788362290659, Wrocław, 2013
• "The Intuitionists", exhibition catalogue, Drawing Papers, ed. The Drawing Center, ISBN 9780942324877, p. 46 and 104, ed. Lisa Sigal and Margaret Sundell, New York, 2014
• "Fukt Magazine for Contemporary Drawing 8/9", ISBN 978-3-86895-088-5, Revolver Publishing, p. 136–139 and 174, Berlin, 2010
• What-is-not (Nietota) exhibition catalogue, Wroclaw Contemporary Museum / Galeria Miejska BWA, ISBN 9788361675037, ed Paweł Baśnik, Tomasz Brzeski (et al.), Wrocław-Bydgoszcz 2018
• Watroba, Joanna, Images of Female Intimacy in Contemporary Polish Art, Kolegium Miedzyobszarowych Indywidualnych Studiów Humanistycznych i Spolecznych Uniwersytetu Wroclawskiego:, Polish Academy of Sciences p 135, 2014