Anna Agoston, American, British, French, New Zealander, born Levallois-Perret, France, 1971

She lives and works in Brussels, Belgium. Her wall installations of black-and-white macro photographs of forms unite by instilling a deeper connection with nature.

An architect certified by the French government, Agoston is a graduate of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture Paris-Malaquais and of the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University, where she earned the Master in Architecture II degree (MArch II).

Her career as an artist began in October 2013, when she made the first photograph in her ongoing master series of 514. In 2016, she began organizing her photographs into unique wall installations of two to fifty-four photographs that embody abstract concepts such as "love," "tranquility," and "eternity.” These installations are made to elevate natural elements of the environment to the status of art, while demonstrating a certain interdependency and materializing a belonging to the world.

Photographs in the series have now been included in more than one dozen group exhibitions across the United States of America, and have been published in print and online art magazines in several countries.

Her installation Garden of Epicurus from her 2020 WOMAN catalogue is featured in William A. Ewing and Danaé Panchaud's book, Flora Photographica: The Flower in Contemporary Photography, published in May 2022 by Thames & Hudson. 

She has written about her work in three articles published by the Huffington Post Arts & Culture Blog: "An artist's perspective on inspiration and making art" (July 22, 2015) and "Art seen through the lens of its architect" (December 31, 2015) and "Art lets me be woman" (January 9, 2017).

Agoston’s self-published catalogues – Untitled Vol.1, Untitled Vol. 2 and Untitled Vol.3 – have been added to the shelves of libraries at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., and the Fine Arts Library at the Harvard Art Museums in Cambridge, MA among others.

Her PDF catalogue WOMAN was published in 2020, Eleven Words in 2021 and Self-Portrait at the Age of Fifty in 2022. She is currently working on a new catalogue.

Agoston was deeply affirmed and encouraged when Pritzker Architecture Prize recipient Toyo Ito wrote to her in 2014, "Pictures in your book are so beautiful that they give me design inspiration.”

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