Individual Residencies
2019 | Anna Oberfeld
A person’s life is continuously fragmented, copied and stored in both personal and shared memory, the shards of which are often misrepresented or mislaid. It is this idea – the fear of losing these shards – that drives Anna’s practice.
“Upon my recent move to Israel, I have been able to reconnect with family. Through meeting them I have begun to find more answers to my questions about my family’s diaspora stories. This residency will allow me to dedicate uninterrupted time to my research and to create a new body of work about these stories.”
Anna Lauren Oberfeld was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio. She undertook the Maryland Institute College of Art’s honors program at SACI College of Art & Design Florence, Italy. Anna holds a BFA Cum Laude in General Fine Art with a concentration in Photography (Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore) and a MFA in Contemporary Art Practice from Edinburgh College of Art (2016).
Anna lives and works in her studio in Midreshet Ben-Gurion in the heart of the Negev Desert in Israel.