Anna Russell
russellannalynn@gmail.com
adaegele@gmail.com
she/her/hers
New Haven, CT

Education
2005
Kent State University, 
Kent, OH 
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting,
Magna Cum Laude

Exhibitions
2023
First Saturdays, 
solo install at IIiiota, 
New Haven, 
December 2023

HiddenChapters: Threads of Narration,
Sacred Heart University
Fairfield, CT
February 2, 2023-March 10, 2023

2022
OHO projects (one hour only, 
a Phillip Guston Inspired Show
 CT, VT, MA

2019 
City-Wide Open Studios, 
Artspace, New Haven, CT
Alternative space, Yale West Campus,
West Haven, CT

2018 
City-Wide Open Studios, 
Artspace, New Haven, CT 
Alternative space, Yale West Campus,
West Haven, CT

The Leonardo Challenge, 
The Eli Whitney Museum, Hamden, CT

2017 
City-Wide Open Studios, 
Artspace, New Haven, CT
Alternative space, New Haven Amory
New Haven, CT

Selected Drawings, 
Fair Haven Branch Library, New Haven, CT

Nasty Women, 
New Haven, CT

2016 
Art Grab, 
Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT

2015 
Sound & Vision, 
WPKN, The Institute Library, New Haven, CT

2014 
City-Wide Open Studios, 
Artspace, New Haven, CT
Alternative Space, New Haven Amory,
New Haven, CT

2012 
House Interpreted, 
Pardee–Morris House, New Haven, CT

2011
All That Matters To Me: Artist Run Show, 
Templar Auto Complex, Lakewood, OH 

2010
Untitled
Artspace, New Haven, CT

2009 
City-Wide Open Studios, 
Artspace, New Haven, CT
Alternative space, 
West Haven, CT

2008 
City Wide Open Studios, 
Artspace, New Haven
Artist in Residence, 
 West Haven, CT

2007 
Lineal Investigations
Housatonic Museum of Art, Bridgeport, CT

Implode!
Hello My Name is Gallery, New Haven, CT

City-Wide Open Studios, 
Artspace, New Haven, CT
Alternative space, Hamden Middle School,
Hamden, CT

2006 
City-Wide Open Studios, 
Artspace, New Haven, CT
Alternative space, Hamden Middle School,
Hamden, CT
Global Peace Project, 
Beda Culture Education Center, Tainan, Taiwan 

2005 
BFA Show, 
Kent State University Sculpture Gallery, Kent, OH


Awards
2019 
Artist Fellowship Emerging Recognition 
Connecticut Office of the Arts 
2004 
Kent Blossom Art Scholarship
Kent State University


Publications

2023

Heel + Hive
Issue #1
Contributing Artist

Connectic*nt Mag
Issues #10, #11, #12 
Contributing artist

2022
Connectic*nt Mag
Issue #888 “best of ct”
Contributing artist 

2021
Wild Light Design
The Journal
Artist Interview

2019
Self Published Book, 2019
Art Catalog: City-Wide Open Studios, 
November 2nd-3rd
Journals, Notebooks, Dreams; 
Pages from the Last Year, October 2019

2017
Self Published Zine, 2017
I AM MORE THAN JUGS AND A BABY HATCH: 
The Women’s March; Before, During and After.


Professional Experience

2023-present
Exhibitions Production Coordinator  
Exhibitions Department
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT 

2009 - 2023 
Museum Assistant, 
Exhibitions & Collections Departments
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT 

2018 
Contributing Artist, 
Not a Dream, 
New Haven Independent, New Haven, CT 

2008-2009 
Museum Technician, 
Installations Department 
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT 

2006-2007 
Art Handler, 
Installations Department 
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT 


Public programs

2023
Sidewalk studio, staff appreciation 
"draw your day"
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT 

2018
studio program
seriously funny; political cartoons from all sides
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT 

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