Premio Combat Prize

The Dunes reexamines familiar tropes of femininity, memory, and childhood. Subverting the fetishization and mythologization of hair, the work provides a location for the acting out of the simultaneous attraction, revulsion and fear often ascribed to the (female) body, on the edge between the beautiful and the unkempt, the composed and the fearsome.
Biography
Anna Rose (b. 1982, Massachusetts, USA) lives and works in Florence, Italy. Her work spans across fiber arts, costume, photography and video, with a sensibility towards the relationship between body and environment, and the fluidity of identity. She has shown her work in Europe and the United States, where she is completing a Master of Fine Arts degree at the San Francisco Art Institute.
Recent Exhibitions-Old Mint, SFAI Graduate Exhibition, San Francisco, CA May 2014-Arsenale di Venezia, Arte Laguna Finalists Exhibition, Venice, March 2014-Rebecca Hossack Gallery, Art Gemini Prize Exhibition, London, January 2014-Incubarte Festival Internacional de Arte, Valencia, Spain, November 2013-Proyector 2013 Festival Internacional de Videoarte, Selected Video, Madrid, Spain, November 2013-Somarts Gallery, Murphy and Cadogan Contemporary Art Awards Show, San Francisco, CA, September 2013-Swell Gallery, San Francisco, CA “Crosshairs”, August 2013-Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA “Measured Bodies”, June 2013 -Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA “Residue”, June 2012 -SACI Gallery, Florence, Italy “Living Space”, Solo Exhibtion, Feb-Mar. 2012 Awards and Recognition-Valcellina Prize Finalist, forthcoming exhibition in Maniago, Italy, April 2014-Arte Laguna Prize Finalist, March 2014-TFHMF Award Honorable Mention, January 2014-Art Gemini Prize Shortlist, November 2013-ArtSlant Showcase, Juried Winner 2013-Fellowship Recipient, Murphy and Cadogan Contemporary Art Awards 2013