Bio
  Ann LePore is a former introvert and current intermedia artist who creates works that are heavily influenced by her experiences as a champion of science, civil society and as a seeker of secret landscapes. Her processes include projection mapping, animation, printmaking, installation, and data visualization. She uses narrative and symbolic images to create opportunities for community-building by creating contexts for viewers to become participants and interact with each other.

LePore has exhibited with e-Flux and Serpentine Gallery, London, and also shown her work in New York, Paris, Rome, Berlin, Moscow, Granada, and Art Basel Switzerland. Much of her research has been completed during artist residencies including at the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, and aboard the Research Vessel Sea Wolf. Ann received her MFA from the School of Visual Arts. She is currently Associate Professor of 3D Design and Animation at Ramapo College of New Jersey.

Statement
   A long-term subject of my work has been the landscape, that seemingly familiar American environment; verdant, endless yet with a subtext of historical and environmental contradiction.  While I do use traditional forms such as printmaking and drawing, 3D computer animation, video, and programmed circuits are my central mediums. These forms can seem obscure to the uninitiated, but my goal is to use narrative and emotive images to create contexts that draw viewers in, and allow them to ask questions.

CV

Ann LePore

Born 1974, New York,  Lives and works in New Jersey

Neonpearl at gmail dot com · annlepore.com · @leporeann

EDUCATION

M.F.A Computer Art, School of Visual Arts, May 2003

B.F.A. Video and Printmaking, Alfred University, May 1996

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2022    Ann LePore’s Food Store(y), Hammond Museum, North Salem, NY

Food Store(y): The Exchange, Hoboken Museum, Hoboken, NJ

Food Store(y), Conference House Park, New York, NY

2013    Upward Mobility, ArtBloc, Jersey City, NJ

2012    Mapping for Empathy (The Landscape is Deadly), Gallery Aferro, Newark, NJ

Four Seasons Collaboration with Joshua Bell, Frederic Chiu, Wendy Wolf, Beechwood Arts, Westport, CT

2011    Mapping for Empathy in 4 Dimensions, Kresge Gallery, Mahwah, NJ

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2024    Radical Reimagining, Newark Museum of Art, Newark, NJ

A/R Loom, Oxford University, Oxford, UK

2023    Taste of Synesthesia, OXO Tower Wharf Gallery, London, UK.

Shifting Ecologies, Frances M. Maguire Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA

From Alchemy to Numinosity, Kresge and Pascal Galleries, Mahwah, NJ

2022    Artecitta VII, University of Granada, Granada, Spain

2021    Faculty Exhibition, Kresge and Pascal Galleries, Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ

Baby Yellow Tower Cacti, with Gwen Charles, Post/Future Festival

2020    Wavelength Drive-In Projections, Gardenship Arts, Elizabeth, NJ

Wavelength Pandemic Projections, Little Falls, NJ

Glimpse, Gallery Aferro, Newark, NJ

2019    Synesthesia Edit01, with Dr. S.Rudenko and G.Hahn, Tchaikovsky Hall, Moscow, Russian Federation

Mounds, Piles & Massings, Walsh Gallery at Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ

Brain Art, Parco Della Musica, Rome, Italy

If You’re Brave Enough, Index Art, Newark, NJ

2018    Gashapon, Caravan Gallery, Montclair, NJ

The Game Show, ABC No Rio & Flux Factory, New York, NY

Case Studies, Gallery Aferro, Newark, NJ

2017    Reconstructed History, Paul Robeson Center for the Arts, Princeton, NJ

Center for Contemporary Print Exhibition and Auction, New Canaan, CT

2016-2010

10th Anniversary Iron, Salem Art Works, Salem, NY

Faculty, Kresge and Pascal Galleries, Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ

Chronodrift, The Lumber Room, Portland OR

Picturing the Garden State, Gallery Bergen, Paramus, NJ

Lumber Yard Festival, Jersey City, NJ, 2015, Curated by Kern Weissman

Thou Art, Pierro Gallery, South Orange, NJ, & Broadway Gallery, Paterson, NJ,

Let it Glow, Public Art Installation, 4 sites, Jersey City, NJ*

Agency Of Unrealized Projects, Daadgalerie, Berlin, Germany Curated by e-flux,

Serpentine Gallery London in collaboration with Berliner

Künstlerprogramm/DAAD and devised by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Julieta Aranda, Anton Vidokle and Julia Peyton-Jones.

See How We Are, Ten Marc, Jersey City, NJ

Faculty, Kresge Gallery, Mahwah, NJ

Through You Into Action, Center for Contemporary Art, Bedminster, NJ

Identity Blueprint, The Camera Club, New York, NY

Relexification, Gallery Aferro, Newark, NJ

Illustrious, ONE Gallery, Newark, NJ

Identity Blueprint, Pierro Gallery, South Orange, NJ

Agency of Unrealized Projects, ART BASEL 42, Kopfbau, Basel, Switzerland, curated by E-

Flux, Devised by Hans Ulrich Obrist

Freeze, Art House Productions, Jersey City, NJ

Infinite Rewind, Distillery Gallery, Jersey City, NJ

Sitelines LoVid: Trichrome Navigation, (performer) River to River Festival, New York, NY

ArtReach XVIII, City Without Walls, Newark, NJ

Common Ground, with Ben Neill, H-Wing Auditorium, Mahwah, NJ

SELECTED AWARDS

• Sabbatical Award, Ramapo College of New Jersey, Fall 2022
• ARIM Residency Program, Conference House Park, NYC, 2021
• Thomases Award, Ramapo College of New Jersey, 2020
• Monotone Residency, Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk, CT, 2017 & 2016
• Creative Capital, Professional Development Program, 2016
• Teaching and Learning Technology Grant, Ramapo College of New Jersey, 2014
• River Summer Residency, Research Vessel Sea Wolf, Hudson River, New York, NY 2011
• Meadowlands Environmental Commission Grant, 2011
• Gallery Aferro, Artist in Residence, 2010- 2011, Newark, NJ
• Ramapo College Specially Budgeted Research Grant, 2009
• Taliesin West/ Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, Artist Residency, Scottsdale, AZ, 2007
• Taliesin/Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, Artist Residency, Spring Green, WI, 2006, 2007
• Engine 27, Audio Residency, New York, NY 2003
• New Leonardo Artist, Award & Exhibition, Wintergarden, New York, NY, 2003
• Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, International Flaherty Film Seminar Award, 2002
• New York State Council on the Arts grant, 2000
• New York State Council for the Humanities, 2000
• Experimental Television Center grant, 2000

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS/PRESS/PRESENTATIONS

• Ann LePore: A/R Loom, UK Synesthesia Conference, Oxford University, 2024
• Artecitta VII, University of Granada, Granada, Spain, 2022
• “Ann LePore’s A Game of Telephone” Pages 105-108 included in: Dorso, Anton. The 2019 Conference of the International Association of Synaesthetes, Artists, and Scientists. Moscow State University of Psychology and Education, 2022.
• What Geri Sees, LePore, Ann, European Neuroscience Virtual Forum with Dr. Svetlana Rudenko (Trinity College Dublin, UK) 2020
• Ann LePore: A Game of Telephone, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russian Federation, 2019
• “Ann LePore: Amulets for Introverts”, Real Photo Show Podcast, episode 99, 2019
• LePore, Ann. “Children of Men.”Out of Curiosity, episode 25, 2019.
• Art of 3D Shark Tank Special Session, Good Morning America, ABC Studios, NYC 2018
• Carrol, Brendan. “Ann LePore: Upward Mobility.”Silverman, 2013. Jersey City, NJ.
• Mingst, Raymond E., and Arthur Bruso. “Ann LePore: Artbloc Has Landed.” Curious Matter, 2013, Jersey City, NJ.
• Obrist, Hans Ulrich, Julieta Aranda, Anton Vidokle, and Julia Peyton-Jones.Agency of Unrealized Projects database. e-flux and Serpentine Gallery London, 2012.
• Wilcox, Emma. “Through You Into Action: Celebrating Five Years of the Gallery Aferro
• Studio Residency”, exh. cat. Newark, New Jersey: Gallery Aferro, 2012
• Carroll, Brendan. “Jersey City Artist Ann LePore on Invisible Barriers, Hip-Hop and Her Latest Curated Show.” The Jersey City Independent, 15 Dec. 2010.
• LePore, Ann. “Re-Defining Animation”, exh. cat. Mahwah, New Jersey: Pascal Gallery, 2008
• Visiting Artist Ann LePore, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, 2007
• Leonardo Magazine and Digital Salon, “Vectors: Digital Art of Our Time”, New York, NY 2003