Annie Chrissy Burley

Artist Bio and Statement

An Ohio native, Annie received her BFA in Animation and Fine Arts from the Columbus College of Art and Design. With her background in character design and storytelling, she reflects on and exposes this tension found in alienating common depictions of African-American Women in media.

Her work seeks to show the unique and complex reality of African-American women outside of these depictions. Through her faith and desire to see the image-bearing nature of African-American women represented she repurposes the methods, tools, and mediums that subjugate African-American female representation to stale stereotypes and objectification. Her work confronts, transforms, and exposes through mixed media works that use objects and visual references to the process of animation like paint skins, celluloid paper, hand-made registration bars, hand-made lightboxes, and more.

Annie Chrissy Burley Is represented by Hammond Harkins Gallery in Columbus, Ohio, and has had her work exhibited at Priscilla R. Tyson Cultural Arts Center, Roy G. Biv Gallery, and elsewhere. She is a recipient of a 2023 Individual Artist Grant from the GCAC.