Annie Albagli's work explores new ways to witness a landscape and its relationship to human and nonhuman worlds by examining the cultural contexts from which they are born and the layers of manipulation that shape them. Her work pays particular attention to personal histories and their entanglements with landscapes molded by power—be it government, military, or industry. Through archival and field research, play, and community engaged projects she explores one’s perception of self as existing beyond the body through relationships with the living world; to see our bodies’ porosity and build reverence for a collaborative existence.
Her work has been shown nationally at such venues including the Headlands Center for the Arts, YBCA, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, and the Art Museum of the Americas and internationally, at Muzeul Zemstvei in Chisinau, Moldova, Art Prospect in St. Petersburg, Russia, The Trash 3 Festival in Bishkek Kyrgyzstan, and Beita Gallery in Jerusalem. Her videos have been screened as part of the Imagined Biennials Project at the Tate Modern in London, UK, the Bavarian Film Festival, ZWICKL in Schwandorf, Germany, and Artist Television Access in San Francisco, CA. She has participated in residencies throughout the U.S. and internationally including Fondazione Antonio Ratti in Como, Italy, Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus in Schwandorf, Germany, Art East in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, and The Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, CA. She has contributed to various artists’ land projects such as AZ West, Mildred’s Lane, and Salmon Creek Farm. Between 2017-18, Albagli was a YBCA Truth Fellow. She is a co-founder and editor of the publication, WHIZ WORLD, and former Co-Director of the Royal Nonesuch Gallery. She teaches at the University of Nevada MFA-IA program.
