Maess Anand

 ( 1982 Births ) 

Maess Anand has presented work in, among others: The Drawing Center Maess at New York’s Drawing Center, Culture.pl, 12 June 2014[3]Drawing Center exhibition schedule, The Intuitionists in New York, Wroclaw Contemporary Museum, Wroclaw Contemporary Museum, exhibitions calendar " There really is no such thing as Art. There are only artists” („ Nie ma sztuki, są artyści" ), Anna Stec, Obieg.pl, 2013 Kasia Michalski Gallery in Warsaw, Kasia Michalski Gallery The Starak Family Foundation in Warsaw, Starak Family Foundation website Kibla in Maribor, Slovenia,Radiotelevizija Slovenija, Dve razstavi, štiri umetnice: dvodnevni program mariborske Kible, Slovenia, 2019 Warsaw Austrian Cultural Forum,[9]Warsaw Autumn programme 2019, archived website in conjunction with the Warsaw Autumn Festival, Polish Institute in Budapest, BWA - Municipal Art Gallery of Bydgoszcz Poland and IK Projects in Lima, Peru.

The artist has been awarded following fellowships: YaddoYaddo, List of artist guests in Saratoga Springs, Residency Unlimited profile at Residency Unlimited, New York, 2018 in New York, Adam Mickiewicz Institute in Warsaw, LIA Leipziger Baumwollspinnerei in Leipzig, Leipzig International Art ProgrammeVirginia Center for the Creative Arts VCCA alumni list in Amherst, Virginia and International Studio & Curatorial Program in New York. profile at ISCP New York, 2023

With Alex Urso, Maess Anand curated Biennale de La Biche; the smallest biennale in the world held on a deserted island near Guadeloupe. Biennale de la Biche held in 2017 has been reviewed by The Guardian,The Guardian, Jonathan Jones, Welcome to the world's smallest art fair – on a disappearing speck of sand, 8 January 2017Hyperallergic,Hyperallergic, Claire Voon, World’s Smallest Biennale Drops Anchor on Caribbean Islet" February 7, 2017 Ming Pao,Ming Pao 最迷你藝術雙年展 警示暖化; mingpao.com, 2017Artnet,Artnet, Tiny Island Plays Host to Biennale de La Biche, the World’s Smallest Biennial, Sarah Cascone, 23 January 2017 Art Review,Art Review, World’s ‘smallest’ biennial on Ilet la Biche, Guadeloupe, 2017 and The Observer.The Observer, This Island Shack Holds World’s Smallest Biennale, Sotheby’s Sues Over Fake Painting, Guelda Voien, The observer.com, 2 July 2017

Anand's work is held in the permanent collections of BWA - Municipal Art Gallery of Bydgoszcz in Poland BWA – Municipal Art Gallery of Bydgoszcz and Imago Mundi Collection in Treviso, Italy. Imago Mundi collection website, Fondazione Benetton Studi Ricerche, Treviso, Italy

• KHRÔMA by women. Colour through the eyes of contemporary artists, Museu Carmen Thyssen, Andorra

• „ The Day is Not Enough, a few autobiographical stories ( " Dzień jest za krótki-kilka opowieści autobiograficznych"), exhibition catalogue, ed. Ośrodek Kultury i Sztuki, p. 98–104, ed. Magdalena Ujma, , Wrocław, 2013
• " The Intuitionists", exhibition catalogue, Drawing Papers, ed. The Drawing Center, , p. 46 and 104, ed. Lisa Sigal and Margaret Sundell, New York, 2014
• " Fukt Magazine for Contemporary Drawing 8/9", ISBN 978-3-86895-088-5, Revolver Publishing, p. 136–139 and 174, Berlin, 2010
• What-is-not (Nietota) exhibition catalogue, Wroclaw Contemporary Museum / Galeria Miejska BWA, , ed Paweł Baśnik, Tomasz Brzeski (et al.), Wrocław-Bydgoszcz 2018
• Watroba, Joanna, Images of Female Intimacy in Contemporary Polish Art, Kolegium Miedzyobszarowych Indywidualnych Studiów Humanistycznych i Spolecznych Uniwersytetu Wroclawskiego:, Polish Academy of Sciences p 135, 2014