Ann Trondson - The Day Series Book
Ann Trondson (b. 1976, Murfreesboro, United States) is an artist working through her seemingly mundane desires. She started the project The Day Series in August 2021 and for fifty-two weeks, Monday-Friday, she created a collage in the shape of a piano, using the previous weeks' New York Times Sunday Newspaper as the collage material resulting in an artwork that contains two hundred and sixty individual panels. The Day Series will travel to various art spaces for three years until the works will be disbursed to its individual collectors. The Day Series, the book, captures this large scale project and acts as an entry point into the other art projects the artist has made since 2005 in performance, video, film, sound, photography, drawing and collage. The book embraces the space where ideas blur and solidify, and is an archive encapsulating twenty plus years of making art.
Texts by art historians Brett Levine and Emily Jay, plus essays by artist Ann Trondson. The hardcover book size is A4 (8.3 x 11.7 inches) and is a coffee-table style artbook with 300+ color photos.
Ann Trondson
Ann Trondson is multidisciplinary artist who works across performance, film, video, photography, sculpture and more to explore identity, seriality, repetition, time, and space. She has held artist residencies at Banff Arts Centre, Banff, Canada, Terra Summer Residency, Giverny, France, and the Guesthaus Residency, Los Angeles. She holds an MFA from the University of Southern California, and is the founder and co-director of Vinegar, an artist-run, women-led, nonprofit in Birmingham, Alabama, that champions and exhibits works by emerging and experimental artists.
Her works have appeared in solo and group exhibitions at MAK Center of Art and Architecture, the Wiregrass Museum of Art, the Gadsden Museum of Art, C for Courtside, Salon 94, Louis B. James Gallery, the College for Creative Studies, and Neon Heater. In 2024, she will present exhibitions at Gallery Vox, Birmingham, River House Art Gallery, Toledo, OH, and Dream Clinic, Columbus, OH. Trondson lives and works in Toledo, Ohio.
Education
MFA University of Southern California, Roski School of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA, 2007
BFA University of Denver, Denver, CO, 1998
Solo Exhibitions and Projects
2023 The Day Series, Wiregrass Museum of Art, Dothan, AL
2022 MCAC Distinguished Artist + Special Exhibition, The Day Series, Birmingham, AL
2021 Feeling Unreal, Gadsden Museum of Art, Gadsden, AL
2021 Out-Of-Body, Terminal, Austin Peay State University, Nashville, TN
2019 Surround, collaboration with Melissa Robert Yes, C for Courtside, Knoxville, TN
2014 Warm-Up, Louis B. James Gallery, New York City, NY
2014 California King, Video Wall, Salon 94 Gallery, New York City, NY
2013 Song Write, College for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI
2012 Rehearsal/Recording, The MAK Center of Art andArchitecture, Los Angeles, CA
2011 Night Maneuvers, Berlin, Germany
2007 California King, Hancock Park, CA
2007 The Year of Hoping for Magic,USC Roski Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2006 The Electric, Dangerous Curve Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2005 Untitled Open, USC Roski Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2005 Twins They're Old, Dangerous Curve Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2004 Gallery 825, Bergamont Annex, Santa Monica, CA
2003 Basement Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1999 Gus Lucky's Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
Group Exhibitions and Projects
2019 Spectacular Never the Same, Freedom House, Birmingham, AL
2019 For the Sake of Transparency, MCAC, Birmingham, AL
2019 Introducing, Airbnb X Vinegar, Birmingham, AL
2018 Open Vinegar, The Shed, Birmingham, AL
2014 Marie Noëlle, Terra Summer Residency Exhibition, Giverny, France
2010 Play it as it Lays, Space1520, Los Angeles, CA
2010 Backyard Oasis Symposium (Screening), Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA
2009 Red Mill Gallery, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
2009 Of the Strip, Performance Festival, Las Vegas, NV
2009 Conceptual Telegraphy and the Song of theWind Through Its Wires , Workspace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2007 Smockshop, Susan Inglett Gallery, New York, NY
2007 MFA Exhibition and Publication Release, USC, Los Angeles, CA
2006 Gift Shop, Another Year in LA, Los Angeles, CA
2005 Greater LA MFA Exhibition, Long Beach, CA
2004 Icons, LAAA Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Residencies
2014 Terra Summer Residency, Giverny, France
2013 Our Literal Speed Residency, Selma, Alabama
2012 Guesthaus Residency, Los Angeles, California
2009 Banff Centre for Art and Creativity, Banff, Canada
2009 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont
2003 Hueyhaus Artist Residency, Pecos, New Mexico
Grants and Awards
2020 Verdant Grant Emergency Grant
Artist Talks and Performances
2022 Futures Symposium, Dayton, Ohio
2022 Surround installation with Melissa Robert Yes and Fen Kennedy, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL
2022 Dance Until you Have Danced your Heart Out, SECAC symposium, Baltimore, Maryland
2021 Art Engagement and Funding, How Do We Go Forward, How Do We Go Back? Organized by Fen Kennedy, University of Alabama.
2021 Artist Talk: University of Tennessee, Knoxville
2021 Artist Talk: University of Montevallo, Montevallo, Alabama
2019 Now is the Time, Here is the Place, SECAC symposium, Chattanooga, Tennessee
2019 Introducing Vinegar, Collector Circle, Birmingham Museum of Art
2014 The Clairvoyant, Rapid Fire, Birmingham, AL
2014 Artist Talk, University of Montevallo
2014 Artist Talk: Birmingham Museum of Art
2012 Artist Talk: College for Creative Studies, Detroit, Michigan
2007 Commencement Speaker, USC, Los Angeles, CA
Publications
Posterior: Ryan Meyer, Ann Trondson and Melissa Yes, 2019
Gas collaboration with Lisa Anne Auerbach, 2007
USC Roski Fine Arts, collaboration with Sarah Lehrer-Grawier, 2007
The Space Between Hopelessness and Forever, USC Graduate Thesis, 2007