Anna Ialeggio

Anna Ialeggio (they/them) was born by the ocean, raised in the mountains, and currently lives in Lansing, New York. They have staged exhibitions and performances across a wide spectrum of formality as an individual artist and collective member (Miss Rockaway Armada, KCHUNG Radio, Monday Nite Weirdos) Assistant Professor of Studio Art at Wells College from 2021–24.

Working in sculpture, ceramics, performance, drawing, text, and media to explore overlaps between ecology, social protocol, and narrative structure, Ialeggio explores the perception of change that occurs as each generation redefines what is considered "natural" or "normal." This idea extends as a poetic and ethical framework for art-making to produce social and class analysis as well as absurdist humor. Recurring material themes include liminality, fragility, improvisation, and play; rupture and lightly bounded space; polish addressed to a provisional gesture; joyful queering of a matter or a tactic; discarded objects and refuse.

Ialeggio received a B.A. from Oberlin College of the Arts in 2005 and an M.F.A. in Studio Art from the University of California, Irvine, in 2019.

Academic Research/Specialty Areas

  • Collaborative practice
  • Drawing
  • Interdisciplinary art
  • Performance art
  • Public art
  • Sculpture
  • Sustainability

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Awards, Grants, and Fellowships (Selected)

  • Wells College Award for Excellence (2024)
  • The Puffin Foundation Artist Grant (2022)
  • Le Guin Feminist Science Fiction Fellowship, University of Oregon Special Collections & University Archives (2022)
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