Originally from Cincinnati, Ohio, artist Ann Toebbe received her BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art in 1997. She earned an MFA in painting from Yale University in 2004 and a DAAD Scholarship to the Universität der Kunst, Berlin, in 2004-05. She has been the recipient of numerous grants including a Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant in 2005 and 2015, a Sustainable Arts Foundation Grant in 2015, and a Chicago Dcase and IL Council for The Arts Grant in 2017. She was a 2017 AiR at Pilchuck School of Glass and fellow at the Vermont Studio Center in 2018. She is represented by Tibor de Nagy in NYC and Steven Zevitas in Boston and Zevitas Marcus in LA. Toebbe lives in Chicago.
Ann Toebbe's exhibition "Swing State" is on view at The Gallery in Sarah Lawrence's Heimbold Visual Arts Center through October 13.