Ann Dawkins

Ann Dawkins (b. 1989) is an artist from Louisville KY. She received her MFA from Southern Illinois University Carbondale in 2019 and her BFA from the University of Louisville in 2013. She was previously the Visiting Assistant Professor of Painting and Drawing at Oklahoma State University. Ann’s work has been shown nationally, including exhibitions in Brooklyn, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, St. Louis, and several galleries in Louisville. Her research has received recognition in the form of an Artist Enrichment grant from the Kentucky Foundation for Women in 2022 and 2015 and as a recipient of the Windgate Charitable Foundation Grant in 2018. She recently had a solo exhibition entitled “Fruit/Bodies” at Garner Narrative in Louisville, Kentucky.

“My work uses the language of thick oil paint to describe the visceral and fleshy qualities of neglected, discarded, and partially consumed fruit as a representation of the vulnerable and uncontrollable physicality of the human body.”