Artist Bio
Ana grew up the sixth of eleven children in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Before working as a full-time artist, she studied and worked in graphic design for two-and-a-half years at Louisiana State University and for the three years following. She continued her degree at the University of Houston in 2002, graduating with a bachelor’s of science in psychology and a minor in art history in 2003. After moving from Baton Rouge to Houston, Texas, in 1999, she lived in London and Nashville, Tennessee, before returning to Houston in 2007. From 2007 to 2016 she studied painting, drawing, photography, and printmaking at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston’s Glassell School of Art before and after the birth of her first child. In 2016 she relocated to Brussels, Belgium, had a second child, and continued her art there. Now, back in Houston, she has a studio in her attic where she can paint as home at her leisure.
Artist Curriculum Vitae
Gallery Shows and Exhibitions
5/2013 Glassell School of Art Annual Student Juried Exhibition; Sunday, 9 a.m., acrylic on canvas, 2013
7/2011 Gallery M Squared Salon des Refusés Show; Shelly, acrylic on canvas, 2011
9/2010 Glassell Student Alumni Organization Select Juried Exhibition; Superman, acrylic on canvas, 2010
6/2010 Galleria Lazarra Group Show; Houston, Texas; 11 pieces
4/2010 Visual Arts Alliance Open Juried Exhibition; Sisters, oil on canvas, 2009
5/2009 Glassell School of Art Annual Student Juried Exhibition; Red & Green, oil on canvas, 2009
Education
1996-1998 Studied Graphic Design and Art History at Louisiana State University
May 2003 B.S. in Psychology (minor in Art History), University of Houston
2007-2016 Studied at the Glassell School of Art (MFAH), Houston, Texas