Anderson studied visual art in Rome, Italy, at the Tyler School of Art; in New York at the Pratt Institute of Art; in California, at Scripps College (BA) and the Claremont Graduate University (MFA).

From 1996 to 1998, the artist lived and worked as a Fulbright Senior Scholar in the Arts in Berlin. The Fulbright Commission awarded her a lecturing/research grant as the only visual artist among over a hundred grantees. Other awards and honors for her work include fellowship grants from The National Endowment for the Arts (Painting), New York Foundation for the Arts (Painting), Artists Space (Artist’s Grant), Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation (Painting), New York State Council on the Arts (CAPS Grant), and many research and scholarship awards, including several from The City University of New York and The Council for International Exchange of Scholars (Fulbright).

Anderson’s work may be found in a number of public collections including Artothek des Bundes of the Federal Chancellery of Art, Vienna, Austria; The Rockefeller Arts Center; The Museum of Modern Art (Life of the City Collection); The Vatican Collection, Italy; Deutsche Burgenvereinigung in Marksburg Castle, Germany; UCLA’s Armand Hammer Museum; the Fulbright Commission in Berlin, Germany; Casa di Risparmio Foundation (Torquato Terracina) and Istitito San Lodovico in Palazzo Ranieri, Orvieto, Italy; Kebble-Villa Museum, Oberpfaelzer Kuenstlerhaus, Germany; The New York City Public Library; and The Library of Congress; as well as corporate collections including IBM, Citicorp, ATandT, ITT, Delta, Bayer, Siemans, Takebashi in Japan, and Sebald Publishers in Germany, among others. The Timepiece Series is also represented by Wexler Gallery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Education

MFA: – Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA
BA: – Scripps College, Claremont, CA
Additional: – Tyler School of Art of Temple University, Rome, Italy; Pratt Institute of Art, Brooklyn, NY