Annette Cords

Annette Cords was born in Northern Germany, raised in Hamburg and the United States, and currently lives and works between New York and Hamburg. She received her MFA in Painting from the University of Pennsylvania, and over the past eighteen years, weaving has become central to her practice. In her tapestries, drawings, and installations, she explores how visual and textual languages intersect, and how meaning emerges through structure, repetition, and the translation of images and words across materials and media. Drawing from sources that include writing systems, urban graphic vernacular, and architectural forms, Cords develops visual and verbal frameworks that invite viewers to consider how we navigate and make sense of complex visual, material, and linguistic worlds.

Recent solo and two-person exhibitions include 1014 (NYC, USA), Kunsthalle Dessau (Dessau, Germany), Yeh Art Gallery at St. John’s University (NYC, USA), Galerie im Marstall (Ahrensburg, Germany), Raft of Sanity (Buffalo, USA), PS122 Gallery (NYC, USA), InLiquid Gallery (Philadelphia, USA), Project: ARTspace (NYC, USA), Kang Contemporary (Berlin, Germany), and the New York Public Library (NYC, USA). Her work has appeared in group exhibitions at venues including the Queens Museum, Flux Factory, The Drawing Center, Kentler International Drawing Space, MASS MoCA, and the Montreal Centre for Contemporary Textiles. Cords has received numerous grants, fellowships, and residencies, including a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, a Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Fellowship, The Drawing Center’s Open Sessions, Projektförderung from the Landeskulturverband Schleswig-Holstein, an ArsVersa Kunst-Stiftung grant, a Neustart Kultur Stipendium from Stiftung Kunstfonds, and Innovative Kunstprojekte funding from BBK.

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