Anna Hopfensberger

(Munich/New York) is a visual artist with a solid academic background in classical and contemporary art.

From 2019 to 2022

she undertook an intensive art programme at the Alte Spinnerei in Kolbermoor, Bavaria. She subsequently continued her training at the New York Academy of Art (NYAA), where she undertook a Master’s degree from 2023 to 2025. There, she was taught by renowned professors such as Steven Assael, Vincent Desiderio, Marshall Jones, Manu Saluja and Michael Grimaldi.

Her artistic development was also shaped by her close collaboration with Clifford Owens as part of her thesis work, as well as by critical guidance from Ana Benaroya.

Anna works in a figurative style, using an androgynous central figure as a ‘Everyman’ – serving both as a self-portrait and a canvas for projection. In deliberately skewed, playful interiors, she explores identity and the complex psychological layers of a being: memory, expectation, belonging – as a journey through the past, present and future. Form emerges through free, expressive brushstrokes; these are contrasted by graphic elements that sharpen the composition and direct the viewer’s gaze. Symbolic objects play a central role, acting as narrative markers and transforming everyday situations into condensed spaces of meaning.

Anna works primarily with oil and oil pencils, orchestrating colour in finely tuned layers – ‘combed’ together, rich in nuances yet applied with precision. Art history, classical literature, cinema and observations of everyday life form her frame of reference.

Timeline – Anna Hopfensberger

Education

2023–2025 – Master of Fine Arts in Painting at the New York Academy of Art, New York, USA
2019–2022 – Art Studies at the Art Academy in Kolbermoor, Bavaria, Germany

Art Fairs

9–12 March 2023 – Word ART Dubai, Dubai, UAE
11–16 February 2021 – 18th Annual Palm Beach Show, Florida, USA

Museum Exhibitions

20–24 May 2023 – National Museum of Egyptian Civilisation (NMEC), Egypt
11–13 November 2022 – Frauen Museum, Bonn, Germany
31 October–15 November 2018 – MIIT Museum, Turin, Italy

Magazine Features

April, May & June 2023 – British Vogue (Print Issues)
May & June 2023 – Tatler Magazine (Print Issues)
December 2018 – Architectural Digest, New York, USA

Public Projects

3 December 2022–16 April 2023 – Art Project at Kristallhütte, Zillertal, Austria

Solo Exhibitions

21 April–5 June 2022 – Body Talk, Kunstquartier, Leonberg, Germany

Group Exhibition

3–24 April 2026 – Group exhibition, Autoren Galerie 1 “Bilder, Briefe, Noten XVIV”, Munich, Germany
31 January–1 August 2026 – Group exhibition “Polyphonic Views” with the Dr Hans Riegel Foundation at Kulturbunker, Bonn, Germany
8–17 May 2025 – MFA Thesis Exhibition, New York Academy of Art, New York, USA
28 March–6 April 2025 – Group exhibition at “All the Light I See” with the Van Der Plas Gallery, New York, USA,
17 April 2025 – Tribeca Ball, New York Academy of Art, New York, USA,
27 February–2 May 2025 – Wall Exhibition, New York Academy of Art, New York, USA
25–28 July 2024 – Studio Show One, Taylor + Ponce Contemporary Art, New York, USA
13 June 2024 – Summer Spirit: Tenacious Women in Art, Landmark Art Space, Chelsea, NY, USA
13 June–15 August 2024 – Kick-off – Technique & Tactics through the Lens of Art, with Toninho Dingl, Lukas Zimmermann, Jasha Schwarz & others, SKM Galerie, Leipzig, Germany
9 May 2024 – Tribeca Ball, New York Academy of Art, New York, USA
24 April–19 May 2024 – The Wall Exhibition, New York Academy of Art, New York, USA
6–9 September 2023 – Collective, Kuehlhaus Berlin, Germany
, 10–26 May 2023 – Collective, Autoren Galerie 1, Munich, Germany
13–15 May 2022 – Collective, Pop Up Galerie, Leipzig, Germany
29 April–13 May 2022 – Collective, Autoren Galerie 1, Munich, Germany
22 October–5 November 2021 – Group exhibition, Autoren Galerie 1, Munich, Germany
, 16–19 September 2021 – SKM exhibition featuring Fynn Kliemann, Toninho Dingl, Lukas Zimmermann, Jasha Schwarz and others, Leipzig, Germany
, 29 June–30 July 2021 – Live Art Exhibition & Show, Glasgow Garage Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA