THE SOLE INTENT FOR MY ART IS TO BRING MORE BEAUTY AND HAPPINESS INTO THE WORLD
1970 Born in former Soviet Union (Ukraine) 1970 through 1992 Lives in Georgia, Russia, Ukraine, Poland 1992 Immigrates to the USA. Anna Bogatin Ott acquired fundamental traditional skills in art schools in Russia and further developed as an artist in the US. Experimenting with diverse media she brings attention to the beauty and order that exist within nature. Her art reflects a belief in the importance of balance between our animal instincts and intellectual aspirations, and explores our eternal longing for freedom and happiness. Buddhism, aesthetic philosophy Wabi Sabi, Indian Tantra drawings, Aboriginal art, as well as the work of the American Abstract Expressionists such as Barnett Newman and Agnes Martin has been an important influence. Her visual imagery derives from her experiences in nature, and photographs of nature that she takes daily. The art making for her is a spiritual activity, that is based on universal values and truths, which is being expressed through the universal language of abstraction. With her work she strive to give the viewer an experience of a serenity and calm, a safe, private space to contemplate, to heal, to connect to a larger whole.
Education 2006 MFA, Painting, San Francisco Art Institute 2002 BFA, Painting, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia Public Collections selected Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA Gregory Allicar Museum of Art, Fort Collins, CO Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA Pennsylvania Convention, Philadelphia, PA University of Illinois, Champaign, IL Temple University, Philadelphia, PA The Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago, IL UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX Jones Day Law Firm, Dallas, TX PD-LD Ink, Pennington, NJ Coventry, Fort Washington, PA The General Mills Art Collection, Minneapolis, MN Solo Exhibitions 2023 ANNA BOGATIN OTT: Direct Line, Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA 2023 ANNA BOGATIN OTT: Nature and Circumstance, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY 2023 OUR RED PLANET:ANNA BOGATIN OTT, Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE 2022 ANNA BOGATIN OTT: LUMINOUS NOW, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY 2021 ANNA BOGATIN OTT: METAMORPHOSIS, Chung-Namont, San Francisco, CA 2020 ANNA BOGATIN OTT: WANDERLAND: MOON and SUN, Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA 2020 ANNA BOGATIN OTT: THE NATURE OF THINGS, Holly Johnson Gallery, Dallas TX 2016 ANNA BOGATIN: NEW PAINTINGS, Holly Johnson Gallery, Dallas TX 2015 ANNA BOGATIN: INTO THE MYSTIC, Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA 2014 ANNA BOGATIN: WANDERINGS, Holly Johnson Gallery, Dallas TX 2011 ANNA BOGATIN: ENDLESS, Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA 2011 ANNA BOGATIN: CONTIGUITY, Gallery of Artists Union, Chelyabinsk, Russia 2004 ANNA BOGATIN: DESTINATIONS, Medialia Gallery, New York, NY 2003 ANNA BOGATIN: PERSONA, Maska Gallery, Lipetsk, Russia Group Exhibitions 2024 ARTISTS AS CULTIVATORS Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA 2024 AGNES MARTIN AND ANNA BOGATIN OTT: SUBTLE SUBLIME, Contemporary Galleries Focus, Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE 2023 PAINTINGS, Holly Johnson Gallery, Dallas, TX 2022 ARRAY Phase Three New Moon in Equinox Tint Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA 2022 HARD-EDGED Geometric Abstraction, Upsilon Gallery, New York, NY 2021 IN SEQUENCE, Holly Johnson Gallery, Dallas, TX 2020 NEW MOON, FULL MOON, OLD MOON; NEW MOON. . . Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA 2020 THE OTHER 50%: WOMEN'S VOICES IN THE PUBLIC SPHERE, Gregory Allicar Museum of Art, Fort Collins, CO 2020 BACK and FORTH, Holly Johnson Gallery, Dallas, TX 2019 BY THE LIGHT. . . Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA 2019 SUMMERTIME BLUES Holly Johnson Gallery, Dallas, TX 2019 RECENT ACQUISITIONS Museum at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA 2019 COLOR, FORM and LIGHT, Objects from the Permanent Collection Georgia Museum of Art, Athens GA 2019 GROUP EXHIBITION Americas Gallery, Gregory Allicar Museum of Art, Fort Collins, CO 2018 RADIANT SPACE, VanDernoot Gallery, Lesley University, Cambridge MA 2018 RUMINATE, Nicholas and Lee Begovich Gallery, CSU Fullerton, Fullerton, CA 2017 White, White-Black; Silver, Gold, Rose, Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA 2016 COSMOS OF HOPE, DeKalb Gallery, Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY 2016 REALITY CHECK, Directions in Contemporary Art Since Ukrainian Independence. The Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago, IL 2015 NEW MOON, A Summer Exhibition, In Phases, Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA 2015 SIX SENSES, Jamie Brooks Fine Art, Costa Mesa, CA 2015 ART ON PAPER, Art on Paper Fair, NYC, presented by Richard Levy Gallery 2014 BUCKS COUNTY ARTISTS: A CROSS SECTION, Hicks Art Center, Bucks County Community College, Newtown, PA 2014 THE SEA, Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA 2014 ALLURE, Jamie Brooks Fine Art, Costa Mesa, CA 2014 COLOR RHYTHMS, Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, NM 2014 IN DAYLIGHT: Small Paintings, Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA 2013 ON DRAWING: Line, Devin Borden Gallery, Houston TX 2013 ON DRAWING: Line, Holly Johnson Gallery, Dallas TX 2013 Special Presentation, Larry Becker Contemporary Art at InLiquid Benefit V. Thirteen, Philadelphia, PA 2012 TO BE LOOKED AT CLOSE TO [Summer Love], Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA 2011 TEN by TEN, Ann 330 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2011 NURTUREart Benefit, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY 2011 STILL LIGHT, Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA 2011 ART UNLEASHED, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA 2010 THIS COOL, Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA 2010 WALL to WALL, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2010 REVISITING BEAUTY, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, CA 2009 TO, Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA 2009 SUMMER SHOW, Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA 2009 THE RUSSIAN WINTER FESTIVAL, The James Bridges Theater,UCLA, LA CA 2009 ART and DESIGN @ 50 EXPO, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA 2009 SUMMER GROUP SHOW, City Arts Gallery, San Francisco City College, SF CA 2008 NURTUREart 2008 Benefit, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY exhibit curated by Lilly Wei 2008 Root Division's 7th Annual Art Auction, San Francisco, CA 2008 LA DOLCE VITAa Dolce, City of Brea Art Gallery, CA 2008 TO BE LOOKED AT, Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA 2007 SOME, Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA 2007 SYSTEMS and TRANSMUTATIONS, Root Division, San Francisco, CA 2006 Root Divisions 5th Annual Art Auction, San Francisco, CA 2006 WESTWARD TOWARD THE EAST, City of Brea Art Gallery, CA 2006 HYDROLYSIS of TIME, Krasnoyarsk Museum of Cultural History, Krasnoyarsk Russia 2005 EIGHT/HUIT, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute 2005 CROSSED DESTINIES, Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Brooklyn, NY 2005 SENSUOUS ABUNDANCE, Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Brooklyn, NY 2002 CITY IN BLOOM, One Commerce Building, Philadelphia, PA, curated by The Philadelphia Museum of Art 1998 GROUP EXHIBITION, Summer Residency Program at School of Visual Arts, New York, NY Bibliography 2023 Gail Obenreder, One museum, two journeys Delaware Art Museum presents Our Red Planet and Estampas de la Raza Broad Street Review, May 18, 2023 2023 Anna Bogatin Ott, Open Call: Space, war influence Ukrainian-born artist with show Delaware Art Museum. delawareonline.com, March 26, 2023 2022 Piri Halasz, Report from the Front, Cool Art for Hot Days: Hard-Edged at Upsilon August 5, 2022 2021 Anna Bogatin Ott, Sky Flags. Unceartain Times 2020, Blurb publication to accompany Sky Flags project. 2020 Edith Newhall, Art shows to see in Phily this fall, The Philadelphia Inquirer, October 2, 2020 2020 Georgia Museum of Art, Slow Art Day, focus on painting Aurora by Anna Bogatin Ott , georgiamuseum.org, April 4, 2020 2020 John Zotos, Anna Bogatin Ott at Holly Johnson Gallery, Dallas Texas, Visual Art Source, March 2020 2019 Andi Clements, Museum shows minimal works in COLOR, FORM and LIGHT, UGA TODAY, June 5, 2019 2019 ANNA BOGATIN OTT Recent Work 2016 - 2018 catalog 2016 Stanislav Grezdo, Adrienne Kochman, Zoe Jackson, REALITY CHECK: Directions in Contemporary Art Since Ukrainian Independence, Catalog for the exhibition at the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art (UIMA), Chicago IL, August 2016 2016 B. David Zarley, The Creator Project, How Freedom Shaped Ukrainian Art At Home and Abroad, August 28, 2016 2016 John Zotos, Arts and Culture magazine, Texas, Exhibition Review, June 21, 2016 2015 Edith Newhall, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Galleries: Theyre all jolly good yellows. 2015 ANNA BOGATIN: Into The Mystic, exhibition catalog 2015 LOOK! ANNA BOGATIN: Pictures on the go. Blurb publication 2015 NEW AMERICAN PAINTINGS, No. 116, The Open Studio Press, Juried by Michelle Grabner 2014 ANNA BOGATIN: Wanderings 2006 - 2014, exhibition catalog 2014 Gwen Shrift, Peaks of Artistry, and Other Subjects at BCCC, Bucks County Courier Times, Oct 9 2014 Todd Campin, Modern Dallas, John Adelman + Anna Bogatin at Holly Johnson Gallery 2014 Peter Simek, FRONT/ROW Blog, 5 Art Picks for the Weekend: Wanderings at Holly Johnson Gallery 2014 Jamie Laughlin, Arts & Culture News, Dallas Observer, Celebrate A New Year of Dallas Art 2013 Todd Camplin, moderndallas.weekly, On Drawing Line August 2013 2013 ON DRAWING: LINE catalog, Holly Johnson Gallery, Devin Borden Gallery 2008 Edith Newhall, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Get the Summer Blues - Shades of Season 2008 R.B. Strauss, Art Stalker, Weekly Review 2008 Rachel Pilgren, PA 8 News Group, An abiding blue sweeps through Becker gallery 2008 Hayden's Ferry Review, The Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing, drawings 2006 Tanya Sangpun Thamkruphat Telephoning Buddha, Orange County Weekly, September 7 2006 Linda Ho Were East Meets West, North Orange County Magazine, September 2006 Richard Chang Artists of Pacific Rim Show Their Edge, The Orange County Register, August 20 Honors and Grants The Philadelphia Watercolor Society Award 2002 The Larry Day Memorial Award 2001 The Crozier Prize Fund for Outstanding Achievements 1999 Deans List, the University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA 1998-2002 Annual Promising Artist Award of the University of the Arts, Philadelphia PA 1998-2002 The Governments Prize traveling to Germany, 1987