Annette Cords

Annette Cords was born in Northern Germany, raised in Hamburg, and lives and works between New York and Hamburg. She received her MFA in Painting from the University of Pennsylvania. Since then, her practice has evolved to span installation, sculpture, and textiles. For over sixteen years, she has focused on Jacquard and hand-weaving, particularly their material and cultural aspects, and made connections to other disciplines. For Cords, weaving is a multifaceted and nuanced language that intersects and augments developments in writing, painting, and abstraction.

Recent solo and two-person exhibitions include Kunsthalle Dessau (Dessau, Germany) Yeh Art Gallery, St. John’s University (NYC, USA), Raft of Sanity (Buffalo, USA), PS122 Gallery (NYC, USA), InLiquid Gallery (Philadelphia, USA), Project:ARTspace (NYC, USA), Kang Contemporary (Berlin, Germany), New York Public Library (NYC, USA), Jenaer Kunstverein and Villa Rosenthal (Jena, Germany). Her work has appeared in group shows at venues including the Queens Museum, The Drawing Center, Flux Factory, Kentler International Drawing Space, MASS MoCA, Montreal Centre for Contemporary Textiles. Cords has been the recipient of numerous grants and residencies, including New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship (2003), Robert Rauschenberg Fellowship (2010), Open Sessions Residency, Drawing Center (2014), Projektförderungen vom Landeskulturverband Schleswig-Holstein (2020) and ArsVersa Kunst-Stiftung (2021), Neustart Kultur Stipendium, Stiftung Kunstfonds and Innovative Kunstprojekte, BBK (2022).