AnnaÌýTsouhlarakis

  • (She, her, hers)
  • Associate Professor, Arts Practices
  • Director, Foundations Arts Program
  • FOUNDATIONS
Anna Tsouhlarakis works in sculpture, installation, video, and performance. She received her BA from Dartmouth College with degrees in Native American Studies and Studio Art. She went on to receive her MFA from Yale University in Sculpture.Ìý
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Her work has been part of national and international exhibitions at venues such as NEON Foundation in Athens, Greece; White Frame in Basel, Switzerland; the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto; the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art; the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts; the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art; the National Museum of the American Indian; the National Portrait Gallery; the Ford Foundation Gallery; a solo exhibition at MCA Denver and Temple Contemporary in Philadelphia; and was part of the 2026 Whitney Biennial. She has upcoming exhibitions at the Frye Museum in Seattle; the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC; the Smithsonian National Museum of American Indian; and a solo exhibition at Bowdoin College Museum of Art. Ìý
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Tsouhlarakis has participated in various art residencies including Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Yaddo, MacDowell, and was the Andrew W. Mellon Artist-in-Residence at Colorado College for the 2019-2020 academic year. In the Spring of 2026, Tsouhlarakis was Artist in Residence at Temple University’s Tyler School of Art and Architecture. She was awarded a Creative Capital Grant in 2021, received a 2022 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award, was a 2025 Smithsonian Artist Research Fellow and in the summer of 2025, she returned to Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture as Resident Faculty. In May of 2026, Tsouhlarakis was Commencement Speaker at Yale University School of Art in New Haven, CT.Ìý
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Reviews and mentions of Tsouhlarakis’s work can be found in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Vanity Fair magazine, The Observer, The Philadelphia Inquirer, ArtNews, Hyperallergic, and many others. Her work has been included in over twenty books.Ìý
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Tsouhlarakis is of Greek descent and an enrolledÌýcitizenÌýof the Navajo Nation.