Ann Shostrom is an artist and curator who has shown internationally at
galleries and museums. Shostrom’s solo shows include Stephanie Theodore
Gallery, New York, NY, Lindhart Foundation, Prague, CZ, Art Now, Goteborg, Sweden, and Rule Gallery, Denver, Colorado. Her sewn and dyed constructions combine formalist abstraction, social content, and handmade craft.

Her open-ended processes create the dyed fabrics that become building materials for these constructions. Wax resist methods include melting by blowtorch, slowly burning votive candles, and drawing with traditional Indonesian tools. Painting techniques combine with fluid dynamics to produce natural landscape forms. Images are printed from articles of clothing and embroideries.

Shostrom participated in Mir2, a multimedia installation and performance at Smack Mellon in Brooklyn, New York that used the international space station as a model for a collaborative project. The MIR 2 team won the Dance Theater Workshop’s 2002 Bessie award for Performance, Installation and New Media. Reviews included The New York Times and Art Forum. Work continued on a new "colony" when MIR2 found a home at the Islip Museum in Islip, New York.

Shostrom developed Trunk Show, a series of international exchange exhibitions that traveled to the Women’s Library, London Metropolitan University in Whitechapel. In Ireland, it went to Kings House, Leitram/Roscommon, and Sirius Art Centre, Cohb, Other international exchanges are in the planning stage.
http://www.trunkshowexhibit.org

Archipelago, a multimedia installation she organizes, was first made at Arti et Amicitciae in Amsterdam, and then recreated for the Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver Colorado, in summer of 2002. Archipelago was on the Denver Post‘s “10 Best Exhibitions of 2002 in Colorado” list. A Bohemian Archipelago is planned for 2008 in New York. http://www.archipelagoexhibit.org

Shostrom’s published writing includes catalog and review essays. She has a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and an MFA from Syracuse University. She is an Assistant Professor at Penn State University.