Anna Boyiazis is an American documentary photographer based between Southern California and East Africa. Committed to healing and liberation, her areas of focus include conservation, human rights, public health, and women and girls’ issues. Through her work, she aims to elicit compassion and bring our shared humanity to the fore. Her ongoing project, Finding Freedom in the Water, first published by National Geographic, documents women and girls in Zanzibar learning to swim—an act of survival and emancipation. The project is a Prix Pictet Nominee, and the recipient of a World Press Photo Award, a Getty Images Reportage Grant, and a Women Photograph + Nikon Grant, among others. Exhibitions of this work include the #WomenMatter campaign against violence toward women (Dysturb), Girls on the Brink: Holding on to Fragile Futures (Too Young To Wed), The Photography Show presented by AIPAD (Monroe Gallery), and Resilience—Stories of Women Inspiring Change (World Press Photo Foundation). Anna is a contributing photographer for National Geographic, The New York Times Magazine, GEO, ESPN, and UNICEF. She has received first aid training for combat and wilderness wounds through Reporters Instructed in Saving Colleagues (RISC) and VICE Hostile Environment and Emergency First Aid Training (HEFAT). She has been a guest speaker at the Austrian Parliament (Vienna), Festival für zeitgenössische Kunst (Basel), the Fowler Museum at UCLA (Los Angeles), United Nations of Photography—A Photographic Life (Oxford), and World Press Photo (Amsterdam, Montréal, Vienna). Anna earned an MFA from the Yale School of Art and a BA from the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture.
Anna’s involvement with photography deepened in 2006, inspiring a mid-career transition into photography. She spent the early years of her career designing a variety of publications—predominantly books—in close collaboration with international art and architecture organizations. Projects included the design of Morphosis, architecture monograph by Pritzker Prize Laureate Thom Mayne (Phaidon Press), and Paradise Cage: Kiki Smith and Coop Himmelblau (The Museum of Contemporary Art [MOCA], Los Angeles). Anna taught at both Art Center College of Design and the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture, and served a teaching fellowship at the Yale School of Art, as Head Designer at MOCA, as Senior Thesis Critic at Otis College of Art and Design, and as Visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome. Her design work was recognized by The American Center for Design, the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA), and Communication Arts, among others. Her work is in numerous private collections, including the AIGA Archives at the Denver Art Museum, the Art Collection of the Austrian Parliament, the UCLA Arts Library Artists’ Book Collection, the Yale University Art + Architecture Library, and the Yale University Sterling Memorial Library Arts of the Book Collection.
EDUCATION
1991 Yale School of Art, New Haven, Connecticut, MFA
1989 UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture, University of California, Los Angeles, BA
1987 University of California Education Abroad Program, University of Leeds, UK, Year Abroad
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2018 VICE HEFAT Training Los Angeles
2016 Transmission pour l’Image Perpignan
2014 RISC Training Nairobi
2012 Eddie Adams Workshop XXV, Los Angeles Times Assignment Award
2012 Ron Haviv Photojournalism Masterclass
2010 Canon-sponsored VII Masterclass with Antonin Kratochvil
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 The Photography Show presented by AIPAD, (Monroe Gallery of Photography), Park Avenue Armory, NYC
2025 Unity Through Diversity, (Photoville x Leica Women Foto Project), Brooklyn Bridge Park, Brooklyn, NY
2025 Witness to a Century, (Photoville x Leica), Gansevoort Plaza, Meatpacking District, NYC (curated by Michael Foley)
2024 Global Peace Photo Award Exhibition, Festival La Gacilly-Baden Photo, Bratislava, Slovakia; Quinzaine de l’image, Maubourguet, France
2024 Open Your Eyes: FotoFestival Zürich, (curated by Gisela Kayser and Lois Lammerhuber, in collaboration with the United Nations, ETH Zürich, and The Photo Society), Zürich, Switzerland; Schwarzenegger Climate Summit, Vienna Hofburg, Austria
2024 The Photography Show presented by AIPAD, (Monroe Gallery of Photography), Park Avenue Armory, NYC
2024 World Press Photo Flagship Exhibition, De Nieuwe Kerk, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
2024 World Press Photo Special Exhibition: Celebrating Communities, (The World Press Photo Foundation in collaboration with The NOOR Foundation), Fondation Donwahi, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire; Yamoussoukro, Côte d’Ivoire; Adzopé, Côte d’Ivoire; Université Jean Lorougnon Guédé, Tazibouo, Daloa, Côte d’Ivoire; Socoopacdi Coopérative, Heremakono Dies-Divo, Côte d’Ivoire; School in Pogréagui and ECAM Méagui, Soubré, Sassandra, Méagui, Côte d’Ivoire
2024 World Press Photo Special Exhibition: Resilience—stories of women inspiring change, (The World Press Photo Foundation in collaboration with the Kingdom of the Netherlands), Atrium City Hall, The Hague, the Netherlands; Palais des Nations, United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland; Instituto Artium, São Paulo, Brazil; Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, Athens, Greece; Galeria Fayga Ostrower, Brasilia, Brazil; Casa de Cultura Mario Quintana, Porto Alegre, Brazil; School of Design UEMG, Belo Horizonte, Brazil; İFSAK—İstanbul Fotoğraf ve Sinema Amatörleri Derneği, Istanbul, Turkey; Drik Picture Library Ltd., Dhaka, Bangladesh; National Gallery, Multimedia Centre “Mala Stanica,” Skopje, North Macedonia; Museo Franz Mayer, Mexico City, Mexico; Center Atrium, India Habitat Center, Delhi, India; Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris, Paris, France; Market Theatre Precinct and Newtown Junction Mall, Johannesburg, South Africa; Laparelli Garden, Valletta, Malta; Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto, Japan; Kalemegdan Park, Belgrade, Serbia; Netherlands at the Council of Europe (The Council of Europe, Residence of Italy, Residence of Austria, Residence of the Netherlands, Permanent Representation of Spain, Ville de Strasbourg/European Audiovisual Observatory), Strasbourg, France; Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology, Gdansk, Poland; Bangkok Art and Culture Center (BACC), Bangkok, Thailand; Università Roma Tre, Rome; Danish Cultural Institute, Beijing, China; Institute for Gender and Development Studies, University of the West Indies, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago; Alexandria Photo Week, Institut français d’Egypte à Alexandrie, Egypt; Photo Israel Festival, Enav Cultural Center and Ofer Garden, Tel Aviv, Israel; Department of Culture and Education of the German Consulate General, Shanghai, China; Autonomous University of the State of Hidalgo, Pachuca, Hidalgo, Mexico; Lkham Gallery, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia; Art Institute of the Orient, Guangzhou, China; additional exhibition locations in the Middle East and North Africa TBA
2023 DYSTURB #WomenMatter campaign against violence toward women, Gaîté Lyrique, Paris, France; Le Consulat Voltaire, Paris, France
2023 The Photography Show presented by AIPAD, (Monroe Gallery of Photography), Center415, NYC
2022 Girls on the Brink: Holding on to Fragile Futures, Too Young To Wed in partnership with The Secretary of State Office of Global Women’s Issues, U.S. State Department, Washington, D.C.
2022 Global Peace Photo Award Exhibition, Xposure International Photography Festival, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
2022 Imagine A World Without Photojournalism, Monroe Gallery of Photography, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2022 The Photography Show presented by AIPAD, (Monroe Gallery of Photography), Center415, NYC
2021 Global Peace Photo Award Exhibition, Willy-Brandt-Haus, Berlin, Germany; Festival La Gacilly-Baden Photo, Baden, Austria
2020 Paris Photo New York, History In A Moment, (Monroe Gallery of Photography), Pier 94, NYC
2019 Global Peace Photo Award Exhibition, Forum Austriaco di Cultura, Rome, Italy
2019 Women Photograph: Insider/Outsider, Gallery O on H Street, Washington, D.C.
2019 World Press Photo + National Committee for 4 and 5 May, 14 Freedom Festivals held throughout the Netherlands
2018 The Contemporary African Photography (CAP) Prize Exhibition, IAF Basel — Festival für zeitgenössische Kunst, Theaterplatz, Basel, Switzerland; Encuentros Abiertos, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Uganda Press Photo Award, Kampala, Uganda; Gallery of Photography, Dublin, Ireland
2018 DYSTURB #WomenMatter campaign against violence toward women, Zoom Photo Festival Saguenay, Cégep de Chicoutimi, Quebec
2018 Photo Vogue Festival, BASE Milano, Italy
2018 Pictures of the Year International: Visions of Excellence, Reynolds Journalism Institute, Missouri School of Journalism, Rocky & Gabriella Mountain Gallery, Central Library, Kansas City
2018 Women Photograph: Women in Photography Projection, The Indian Photography Festival, Telangana State Gallery of Fine Art, Hyderabad, India; Chapel Gallery, Objectifs, Singapore
2018 World Press Photo 18, De Nieuwe Kerk, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy; Fundacion Cajasol, Seville, Spain; Travessa do Grilo, Beato, Lisbon, Portugal; Cultural Center Zamek, Poznan, Poland; Spazio MURAT, Bari, Italy; Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; Muzeul Național de Artă al României, Bucharest, Romania; Kempinski Hotel Gold Coast City Accra, Accra, Ghana; Gruner + Jahr GmbH & Co KG, Hamburg, Germany; Shopping mall Old City, Harodnia, Belarus; Goethe Galerie Jena, Jena, Germany; Niavaran Cultural Centre, Tehran, Iran; Fondazione Sozzani, Galleria Carla Sozzani, Milan, Italy; Cultural center Korpus 8, Minsk, Belarus; State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia; Landesmuseum, Zurich, Switzerland; Willy-Brandt-Haus, Berlin, Germany; Depot Kulturort, Dortmund, Germany; Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan; Yeltsin Presidential Center, Yekaterinburg, Russia; University of Fine Arts, Hanoi, Vietnam; Level 6, Smith & Caughey’s, Auckland, New Zealand; Brisbane Powerhouse, Brisbane, Australia; Sala de Arte Moderno de Larcomar, Lima, Peru; Walburgiskerk, Zutphen, the Netherlands; Musée canadien de la guerre, Ottawa, Canada; Balti Jaam Passenger Terminal, Tallinn, Estonia; Espacio Fundación Telefónica, Santiago, Chile; Museo Franz Mayer, Mexico City, Mexico; The Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh, United Kingdom; Centro Cultural Metropolitano, Quito, Ecuador; Sanomatalo / Mediatori, Helsinki, Finland; Marché Bonsecours, Montreal, Canada; Academiehuis Grote Kerk, Zwolle, the Netherlands; Magazzino alle Zattere, Venice, Italy; Museo Municipal de Guayaqui, Guayaquil, Ecuador; Vertigo, Bouwkunde TU Eindhoven, the Netherlands; WestLicht Museum, Vienna, Austria; Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Oita, Japan; Magyar Nemzeti Múzeum (Hungarian National Museum), Budapest, Hungary; Politiken, Copenhagen, Denmark; Casa Garden, Macau, China; Brookfield Place, Allen Lambert Galleria, Toronto, Canada; LASEDE (COAM), Madrid, Spain; Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Ferrara, Italy; National Museum of Singapore, Singapore; Kyoto Museum for World Peace, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan; Centre Céramique, Maastricht, the Netherlands; Centro Cultural Montehermoso, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain; La Pulperie de Chicoutimi / Regional Museum, Chicoutimi, Canada; EXCaserma, Gavoi, Italy; Studio 94, Taipei, Taiwan; Ritsumeikan University, Shiga, Japan; Château de Prangins, Prangins, Switzerland; Synagoge Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands; Fórum da Maia, Maia, Portugal; Galeria Sztuki Wspolczesnej, Opole, Poland; St. Willibrordusbasiliek, Hulst, the Netherlands; Museum Hilversum, Hilversum, the Netherlands; Couvent des Minimes, Visa pour l’Image, Perpignan, France; Fondazione Sozzani, Paris, France
2017 DYSTURB #WomenMatter campaign against violence toward women, Preus Museum, Horten, Norway and Ballarat International Foto Biennale, Victoria, Australia; UN International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, Paris, France and Williamsburg, New York
2017 Festival Voies Off, Installation and Evening Screening, Cour de l’Archevêché and Griffeuille, Arles, France
2017 Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize, National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
2017 UNICEF Photo of the Year, Haus der Bundespressekonferenz, Berlin, Germany
2017 Women Photograph: Insider/Outsider, PHOTOVILLE, Brooklyn (curated by Mallory Benedict, Sara Ickow, and Daniella Zalcman)
2015 THE FENCE, Atlanta Celebrates Photography, Brooklyn Bridge Park, and Houston Center for Photography
2015 FotoVisura Grant Exhibition, 2015 GuatePhoto Festival, Santo Domingo del Cerro, Antigua Guatemala
2015 PHOTOVILLE, Opening Screening, Brooklyn
2014 Der Greif: A Process, Neue Galerie im Hohmannhaus, Augsburg, Germany
2014 Eyewitness: Fondation Rivera-Ortiz, Galerie Huit, Arles, France
2013 FFR at Prix Bayeux-Calvados des Correspondants de Guerre, Le Radar Espace d’Art Actuel, Normandie, France
2013 MOPLA: Month of Photography Los Angeles, Space15Twenty, Los Angeles
2012 Arte Fiera: Women in Multimedia, Spazio Labo’ Centro di Fotografia, Bologna, Italy
2011 Angkor Photo Festival, FCC Angkor, Siem Reap, Cambodia
2011 City of Los Angeles (COLA) Individual Artist Fellowship Exhibition, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles
2010 Angkor Photo Festival, Angkor National Museum, Siem Reap, Cambodia
2010 Slideluck, Maumau, Barcelona, Spain; Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder
2010 Women’s Work, Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles
2009 The Curve: CENTER Santa Fe’s Award Recipients, Photo Center NW, Seattle
2009 Havana Biennial, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Wifredo Lam, Havana, Cuba
2009 Istanbul Photo Festival, Istanbul, Turkey
2009 Prix de la Photographie Paris, Espace Dupon, Paris, France; Farmani Gallery, New York
2009 Slideluck, Tribe, Nairobi, Kenya; PhotoNOLA, New Orleans
2009 Compartiendo Sueños, Congreso Informatica, Palacio de las Convenciones, Havana, Cuba; 2008 Centro Pablo de la Torriente Brau, Majadahonda Gallery, Havana, Cuba; 2008 Museo de Arte Contemporáneo del Zulia, Maracaibo, Venezuela; 2008 Galeria del Habitat, Universidad Autonoma de San Luis Potosi, San Luis Potosi, Mexico; 2007 Centro Hispanoamericano Museo de Cultura, Havana, Cuba
2002 American Center for Design 100 Show, School of Visual Arts, New York; 2000 School of the Art Institute, Chicago; 1999 American Center for Design, Chicago
1999 America: Cult & Culture, AIGA Design Center, New York; AIGA Design Conference, Las Vegas
1998 Mediterranean Mosaics, European Community Exhibition Center, Brussels, Belgium; Alatza Imaret, Thessaloniki, Greece
1997 Communication Graphics 18, AIGA Design Conference, New Orleans
1997 Then: What? Sharing our Work, Alumni/Faculty Exhibition, Art + Architecture Gallery, Yale University, New Haven
1996 Bradbury Thompson Symposium, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven
1996 Deus Ex Machina, W Keith & Janet Kellogg University Art Gallery, Cal Poly Pomona, Los Angeles
1996 Southwest 96, Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe
1995 Los Angeles Printmaking Society National Biennial, Laband Art Gallery, Los Angeles
(curated by Elizabeth A.T. Smith, The Museum of Contemporary Art [MOCA], Los Angeles)
1994 Focus on Los Angeles Artists ll, Pauline Hirsh Gallery, Los Angeles
1993 Los Angeles Biennial of Southern California Artists, William Grant Still Arts Center, Los Angeles
1993 Los Angeles Printmaking Society National Exhibition, Laband Art Gallery and Palos Verdes Art Center, Los Angeles (curated by Henry Hopkins, The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles)
1993 Through My Window, Anchorage Museum, Anchorage
1992 Focus on Los Angeles Artists I, Pauline Hirsh Gallery, Los Angeles
1991 MFA Thesis Exhibition, Art + Architecture Gallery, Yale University, New Haven
1991 Music in Print, Hilles Gallery, New Haven
1990 MFA Student Show, Art + Architecture Gallery, Yale University, New Haven
RECOGNITION
2025 Creative Capacity Fund Professional Development Award, Recipient
2023 Victoria and Albert Museum Parasol Foundation Prize for Women in Photography, Short List
2022 Michel du Cille Fellowship, Recipient
2022 New York Portfolio Review, Invitation to participate
2021 Leica Women Foto Project Award, Recipient
2021 National Geographic COVID-19 Emergency Fund for Journalists, Grantee
2020 The Alexia Grant, Professional Finalist
2020 Artist + Activist Relief Fund Grant, Grantee
2020 ASMP Donor’s Circle (Covid-19) Grant, Grantee
2020 Creative Capacity Fund Professional Development Award, Grantee
2020 Focus on the Story Best Single Image Award, Recipient
2020 Imagely Fund, Humanitarian Category, Third Place
2020 National Press Photographers Association (NPPA) Covid-19 Emergency Relief Fund, Grantee
2020 Pictures of the Year International, Sports Portrait, Second Place
2019 The Alexia Grant, Professional Short List
2019 Getty Images Reportage Grant, Grantee
2019 Prix Pictet, Nominee
2018 Aaron Siskind Individual Photographer’s Fellowship, Recipient
2018 ANI-PixTrakk Award Perpignan, Short List
2018 The Contemporary African Photography Prize, Recipient
2018 Peace Image of the Year Award, Recipient
2018 PHmuseum Women Photographers Grant, Finalist
2018 Pictures of the Year International, News Division, Feature, Award of Excellence
2018 Women Photograph + Nikon Grant, Grantee
2018 World Press Photo Award, People, Second Prize Stories, Recipient
2017 Arles Voies Off Awards, Short List
2017 Creative Capacity Fund Professional Development Award, Grantee
2017 Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson HCB Award, Nominee
2017 Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize, Short List
2017 UNICEF Photo of the Year, On the Girls’ Right Not to Drown, Honorable Mention
2016 Creative Capacity Fund Professional Development Award, Grantee
2016 Visura Instagram Takeover, (Curated by Elizabeth Krist), Recipient
2016 Visura Photojournalism Grant, Honorable Mention
2015 Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson HCB Award, Nominee
2015 Fondation Rivera-Ortiz Grant, Finalist
2015 FotoVisura Grant for Outstanding Personal Project, Honorable Mention
2015 PDN’s 30: New and Emerging Photographers to Watch, Nominee
2015 Photocrati Fund Fellowship, Fourth Place
2015 UNICEF Photo of the Year, Nominee
2014 Best of ASMP, Recipient
2014 Fondation Rivera-Ortiz Grant, Finalist
2014 PDN’s 30: New and Emerging Photographers to Watch, Nominee
2013 Fondation Rivera-Ortiz Grant, Finalist
2012 Center for Cultural Innovation Investing in Artists Grant, Finalist
2012 Creative Capacity Fund Professional Development Award, Grantee
2012 Eddie Adams Workshop XXV Los Angeles Times Assignment Award, Recipient
2012 Médecins Sans Frontières Culture Channel Prize, Recipient
2012 Photocrati Fund Fellowship, Third Place
2012 Puffin Foundation Grant, Grantee
2011 City of Los Angeles (C.O.L.A.) Individual Artist Fellowship, Recipient
2011 Creative Capacity Fund Professional Development Award, Grantee
2011 Photocrati Fund Fellowship, Finalist
2011 POYi Emerging Vision Incentive, Nominee
2011 UNICEF Photo of the Year, Nominee
2010 Creative Capacity Fund Professional Development Award, Grantee
2010 PHotoEspaña Descubrimientos PHE, Madrid, Invitation to participate
2010 UNICEF Photo of the Year, Nominee
2009 CANON Female Photojournalist Award, Short List
2009 CENTER Singular Image Curator’s Choice, Second Prize
2009 Prix de la Photographie Paris, Photojournalism Feature Story First Place
2009 UNICEF Photo of the Year, Nominee
2008 CENTER Santa Fe Singular Image, Second Prize
2006 American Academy in Rome, Rome Prize Finalist
2005 American Academy in Rome, Visiting Artist
2000 American Center for Design Award, ACD100 Recipient
2000 American Institute of Graphic Arts Award, Recipient
1998 American Institute of Graphic Arts Award, Recipient
1997 Communication Arts Award, Recipient
1997 Society of Publication Designers Award, Recipient
SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
2023 Open Your Eyes: FotoFestival, Anna Boyiazis in Conversation with Peter-Matthias Gaede (GEO/UNICEF), Zürich, Switzerland
2020 Nikon Creator’s Hour: Compelling Storytelling in Photography with Anna Boyiazis, New York
2020 Talks by Women Photographers: Conversation with Saumya Khandelwal, New Delhi, India
2020 United Nations of Photography Podcast—A Photographic Life, Episode 93: Plus Photographer Anna Boyiazis, Oxford, UK
2019 Fowler Museum at UCLA, Artist Talk: Anna Boyiazis, Los Angeles
2018 World Press Photo Festival, Guest Speaker, Westergastheater, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
2018 World Press Photo Montréal, Guest of Honor, Marché Bonsecours, Montréal, Canada
2018 World Press Photo Montréal, Guest Speaker, Le Collège Dawson Amphithéâtre, Montréal, Canada
2018 World Press Photo Montréal, Guest Speaker, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada
2018 World Press Photo Venice, Venice, Italy
2018 World Press Photo Vienna, Guest of Honor, WestLicht, Vienna, Austria
2018 World Press Photo Vienna, Guest Speaker, WestLicht, Vienna, Austria
2018 Peace Image of the Year Award Ceremony, Austrian Parliament Hofburg, Vienna, Austria
2018 The Contemporary African Photography Prize Exhibition Artist Talks, Theaterplatz, Basel, Switzerland
2017 Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, C.O.L.A.20 Salon Conversation Panel Participant, Los Angeles
2011 Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Conversations with the Artists Gallery Talk, Los Angeles
2007 AIGA Center for Cross Cultural Design (AIGAXCD), Compartiendo Suenos, Havana, Cuba
1996 Cal Poly Pomona Dept of Art College of Environmental Design, Panel Discussion Lecturer, Pomona
INTERVIEWS
Best of ASMP
DYSTURB #womenmatter
WePresent: WeTransfer x The World Press Photo Awards
World Photography Organisation
World Press Photo Audio Interview
PORTFOLIO REVIEWER
2024 World Press Photo ‘The Stories That Matter’ Portfolio Reviews, De Nieuwe Kerk, Amsterdam
2018 World Press Photo Portfolio Potluck Review, L’Esplanade, Montréal
TEACHING
2001 UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture, Visiting Lecturer
2000 Otis College of Art and Design, Senior Thesis Critic
////// Art Center College of Design, Faculty, 1998–2000
1991 Yale School of Art, Teaching Fellowship
WORKSHOP ASSISTING
2015 Ron Haviv Workshop Assistant
2014 Todd Hido Workshop Assistant
2013 Ashley Gilbertson Workshop Assistant
2013 Eddie Adams Workshop XXVI Black Team
APPOINTMENTS
Anna Boyiazis Design, Design Director, Los Angeles, 1991–2007
The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles, Head Designer, 1996–99
Sussman/Prejza & Company Inc, Designer, 1992–94
SELECT PUBLICATIONS
Charley Locke. Introduction by David Wallace-Wells. “The Climate Generation: It haunted their childhood, has upended their adolescence — and will define the rest of their lives.” New York, NY: The New York Times Magazine (The Climate Issue): (November 10, 2024).
Heiner Hoffmann. “How the dream island of Zanzibar becomes a technology location.” Hamburg, Germany: Der Spiegel Magazine (Global Societies): (May 2024).
Claudi Carreras Guillen. “Inside the Curve: Stories From the Pandemic.” Exh. cat. Washington, D.C., USA: National Geographic (November 2023).
Amel Brahmi. “A quiet revolution: the female imams taking over an LA mosque.” London, UK: The Guardian (World News): (November 23, 2021).
Abe, Naoko; Boyd, William; Rees, Martin; and Scruton, Roger. HOPE: The Eighth Prix Pictet Award. Exh. cat. Krefeld, Germany: teNeues (2019): 72–73, 131.
Brett Okamoto. “Cut and Dried Out: Looking to become the fourth-ever dual title holder, TJ Dillashaw attempts to cut an additional 10 pounds and drop to 125 pounds to face Henry Cejudo.” ESPN (January 18, 2019).
Lars Boering and Magdalena Herrera. World Press Photo 2018 Yearbook. World Press Photo 2018 Exhibition. Exh. cat. Germany: Schilt Publishing and World Press Photo Foundation: (April 2018): 136–141, 237, back cover.
Füglister, Benjamin. CAP Prize 2018: The Contemporary African Photography Prize. Exh. cat. Berlin, Germany: CAP Association (2018): 54–67.
McClure, Richard. Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2017. Exh. cat. London, UK: National Portrait Gallery Publications (2017): 44.
COLA/20: City of Los Angeles Individual Artist Fellowship Exhibition. Exh. cat. Los Angeles, California: Department of Cultural Affairs (2017): 28, 84, 91–94.
Sara Terry. “Anna Boyiazis.” City of Los Angeles (COLA) Individual Artist Fellowship Exhibition. Exh. cat. Los Angeles, California: COLA: (May 2011).
Nais Mason and Angela Rupprecht. “Kinder leben in Afrika.” UNICEF News: Special Edition. Cologne, Germany: UNICEF: no. 2 (June 2010): 9.
Carpio, Francisco. Descubrimientos 2010. PHotoEspaña cat. Madrid, Spain: La Fabrica: (June 2010): 48–49.
Drenttel, William, and Jessica Helfand. “The Lost Picture Show: American Center for Design, 1999.” Below the Fold: ACD 100. Falls Village, Connecticut: The Winterland Institute: vol. 1, no. 4 (Summer 2007): 3–15.
Compartiendo Sueños: Cuba y Los Estados Unidos Cruzan la Brecha Digital/Sharing Dreams: Cuba and The U.S. Cross the Digital Divide. Exh. cat. Havana, Cuba: The American Institute of Graphic Arts Center for Cross Cultural Design (AIGA XCD), The Centro Cultural Pablo de la Torriente Brau, and the Union of Cuban Artists and Writers (UNEAC), 2007.
Heller, Steven, Paula Scher, Véronique Vienne, and Lorraine Wild. Graphic Design USA 20: The Annual of the American Institute of Graphic Arts. New York, New York: The American Institute of Graphic Arts and Watson-Guptill Publications (2000): 136.
Codrington, Andrea, Michael Dooley, Steven Heller, and Martha Scotford. Graphic Design USA 18: The Annual of the American Institute of Graphic Arts. New York, New York: The American Institute of Graphic Arts and Watson-Guptill Publications (1998): 240.
Communication Arts Design Annual 38. New York, New York: (November 1997): 78–79.
The Society of Publication Designers Thirty-second Publication Design Annual. Beverly, Massachusetts, and New York, New York: Rockport Publishers and The Society of Publication Designers (1997): 122.
Smith, Elizabeth A.T. “Printmaking in the Expanded Field.” Los Angeles Printmaking Society Thirteenth National Exhibition. Exh. cat. Los Angeles, California: Los Angeles Printmaking Society (1995): 7–8, 19.
Hopkins, Henry T. “Some Thought on Prints and Printmaking, Part ll.” Los Angeles Printmaking Society Twelfth Annual Exhibition. Exh. cat. Los Angeles, California: Los Angeles Printmaking Society (1992): 10, 15.
SELECT PRESS
Tim Adams, The big picture: the simple liberation of floating, The Guardian, London, UK, 2023
Gilles Steinmann, ‘Open Your Eyes’ photo festival 2023: Sustainable development in a photographic focus, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Zürich, Switzerland, 2023
Gail Fletcher and Alvin Chang, Our favourite photos from 2021: how Guardian US pictures captured a historic year, The Guardian, London, UK, 2021
Kenneth Dickerman, Here are the winners of this year’s Leica Women Foto Project Awards, Washington Post, Washington, D.C., 2021
Maggie Steber, Lauréates du Leica Women’s Grant 2021: Matika Wilbur, Karen Zusman & Anna Boyiazis, L’oeil de la Photographie, Paris, France, 2021
Michele Abercrombie, Want To See Inspiring Pix? Check Out These Award-Winning Photos, NPR, Washington, D.C., 2021
Conor Risch, 2019 Getty Reportage Grants of $15K Announced, PDN, New York, NY, 2019
Getty Images announces winners of 2019 Reportage Photography Grant, in pictures, The Telegraph, London, UK, 2019
Getty Reportage Grant winners in pictures, The Sunday Times, London, UK, 2019
Angela Schader and Gilles Steinmann, Die Nixen von Sansibar — ein Foto-Tableau von Anna Boyiazis, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Zürich, Switzerland, 2018
Courtney Columbus, Extraordinary Moments: Top Contenders For A Photojournalism Prize, NPR, Washington, D.C., 2018
Diane Smyth, 2018 Women Photograph Grant winners announced, British Journal of Photography, London, UK, 2018
Diane Smyth, 25 artists shortlisted for Contemporary African Photography Prize, British Journal of Photography, London, UK, 2018
Diane Smyth, 31 women to watch out for, British Journal of Photography, London, UK, 2018
Diane Smyth, World Press Photo MD Lars Boering on the 2018 contest, British Journal of Photography, London, UK, 2018
fotoMAGAZIN, Bild/Portfolio, “Welt Im Wandel. Von langen Entscheidungswegen und kurzen Listen: Der renommierte World Press Photo Award wird in diesem Jahr erstmals in einem abgewandelten Verfahren verliehen.” Hamburg, Germany, 2018
Henriette Lind, 45 pletskud: Her er alle de billeder, der kan vinde priser i World Press Photo i år, Politiken, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2018
Henriette Lind, FOTO 2018: Det vildeste var at se, når frygten slap. Og de bare begyndte at nyde det. Vandet. Vægtløsheden. Friheden, Politiken, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2018
Lars Lindemann and Christian Gogolin, GEO Annual Review: The 50 most impressive pictures of the year, GEO Magazine, Hamburg, Germany, 2018
Magdalena Herrera, The Photos That Stuck With Me: Eight of the jury chair’s favorite nominated photos from this year’s World Press Photo Contest, Witness, World Press Photo Foundation, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 2018
Mathilde Saljougui, “Sansibarin tytöt uivat vastavirtaan,” Valokuva, GEO Finland, Helsinki, Finland, 2018
Mathilde Saljougui, “Zanzibar: Des Filles à Contre-Courant,” Regard, GEO France, Paris, France, 2018
Mathilde Saljougui, “Zanzibar: Plávanie proti tabu,” GEO Slovakia, Fotografia, Bratislava, Slovakia, 2018
Olivier Laurent, These photographs are World Press Photo winners, Washington Post, 2018
Prizewinning images of Africa, from grasshoppers to street life — In Pictures, The Guardian, London, UK, 2018
Samantha Clark, Women Photograph Announces 2018 Grant Recipients, NPR, Washington, D.C., 2018
Stern Gesund Leben, Hamburg, 2018
“TANSANIA: Das Meer erobern,” Kosmos, GEO Germany, Hamburg, Germany, 2018
We talk World Press Photo and photographs that make history with Vogue Italia’s senior photo editor Alessia Glaviano, Cortona on the Move, Italy, 2018
World Press Photo 2018: et les nommés sont…, GEO France, 2018
World Press Photo 2018, National Geographic Romania, 2018
World Press Photo Contest 2018 – The Nominees in Pictures, The Guardian, London, UK, 2018
“Deeper Water: They Might Live Beside the Ocean But the Girls of Zanzibar are only just Learning to Swim,” Marie Claire Australia, 2017
Diane Smyth, Arles 2017: Voies Off, British Journal of Photography, London, UK, 2017
Sarah Stacke, Auf „Burkini Island“ können die Frauen und Mädchen Sansibars endlich Schwimmen lernen, National Geographic Germany, 2017
Sarah Stacke, Descubre la «Isla Burkini», donde a las niñas musulmanas se les permite por fin aprender a nadar, National Geographic Spain, 2017
Sarah Stacke, On ‘Burkini Island’ Muslim Girls Can Finally Learn to Swim, National Geographic, 2017
Sarah Stacke, “On ‘Burkini Island’ Muslim Girls Can Finally Learn to Swim,” National Geographic Australia, 2017
Sarah Stacke, “Zanzibar, imparare a nuotare col burkini,” National Geographic Italy, 2017
Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2017 — In Pictures, The Guardian. London, UK, 2017
Ellyn Kail, 16 of Our Favorite Photos from The Fence 2015, Feature Shoot, New York, 2015
Christopher Knight, Art review: 2011 COLA Individual Artist Fellowship, Los Angeles Times, 2011
Mireya Castañeda, “Del Pincel al mouse: 9° Salon y Coloquio de Arte Digital,” Granma Internacional, Havana, Culture Section, Dutch, English, French, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish editions, 2003
“Alumni,” UCLArts, Los Angeles, 2001
“Faculty Activities,” UCLA Design/Media Arts News Report, Los Angeles, 2001
“Jessica Bronson Catalogue,” American Institute of Graphic Arts, AIGA Design Archives, 1999
“Paradise Cage: Kiki Smith and Coop Himmelblau,” American Institute of Graphic Arts, AIGA Design Archives, 1997
“Statements 13,” The American Center for Design, Chicago, 1996
James Weiss, “Art review: What you see (and hear) is what you get,” New Haven Register, New Haven, 1991
Takenobu Igarashi, “Portfolio 27,” Tokyo, 1989
COLLECTIONS
AIGA Archives at the Denver Art Museum
AIGA Design Archives online
Art Collection of the Austrian Parliament, Vienna
Numerous Private Collections
UCLA Arts Library Artists’ Book Collection
Yale University Art & Architecture Library
Yale University Sterling Memorial Library Arts of the Book Collection
BOOKS DESIGNED
AMY ADLER
Publisher: The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles
Author: Cornelia H. Butler
Softcover: 64 pages
Language: English
Printing: Germany
BRONSON
Publisher: The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles
Author: Cornelia H. Butler
Softcover: 28 pages
Language: English
Printing: USA
KCHO: TODO CAMBIA
Publisher: The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles
Authors: Alma Ruiz and Paul Schimmel
Hardcover: 64 pages
Languages: English and Spanish
Printing: USA
MORPHOSIS
Publisher: Phaidon Press
Author: Thom Mayne and Val Warke
Hardcover and Softcover: 288 pages
Language: English
Printing: Hong Kong
PARADISE CAGE: KIKI SMITH AND COOP HIMMELBLAU
Publisher: The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles
Author: Elizabeth A. T. Smith
Softcover: 34 pages
Language: English
Printing: USA
THE POWER OF SUGGESTION: NARRATIVE AND NOTATION IN CONTEMPORARY DRAWING
Co-publishers: Smart Art Press and The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles
Author: Cornelia H. Butler
Softcover: 46 pages
Language: English
Printing: USA
Anna’s involvement with photography deepened in 2006, inspiring a mid-career transition into photography. She spent the early years of her career designing a variety of publications—predominantly books—in close collaboration with international art and architecture organizations. Projects included the design of Morphosis, architecture monograph by Pritzker Prize Laureate Thom Mayne (Phaidon Press), and Paradise Cage: Kiki Smith and Coop Himmelblau (The Museum of Contemporary Art [MOCA], Los Angeles). Anna taught at both Art Center College of Design and the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture, and served a teaching fellowship at the Yale School of Art, as Head Designer at MOCA, as Senior Thesis Critic at Otis College of Art and Design, and as Visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome. Her design work was recognized by The American Center for Design, the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA), and Communication Arts, among others. Her work is in numerous private collections, including the AIGA Archives at the Denver Art Museum, the Art Collection of the Austrian Parliament, the UCLA Arts Library Artists’ Book Collection, the Yale University Art + Architecture Library, and the Yale University Sterling Memorial Library Arts of the Book Collection.
EDUCATION
1991 Yale School of Art, New Haven, Connecticut, MFA
1989 UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture, University of California, Los Angeles, BA
1987 University of California Education Abroad Program, University of Leeds, UK, Year Abroad
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2018 VICE HEFAT Training Los Angeles
2016 Transmission pour l’Image Perpignan
2014 RISC Training Nairobi
2012 Eddie Adams Workshop XXV, Los Angeles Times Assignment Award
2012 Ron Haviv Photojournalism Masterclass
2010 Canon-sponsored VII Masterclass with Antonin Kratochvil
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 The Photography Show presented by AIPAD, (Monroe Gallery of Photography), Park Avenue Armory, NYC
2025 Unity Through Diversity, (Photoville x Leica Women Foto Project), Brooklyn Bridge Park, Brooklyn, NY
2025 Witness to a Century, (Photoville x Leica), Gansevoort Plaza, Meatpacking District, NYC (curated by Michael Foley)
2024 Global Peace Photo Award Exhibition, Festival La Gacilly-Baden Photo, Bratislava, Slovakia; Quinzaine de l’image, Maubourguet, France
2024 Open Your Eyes: FotoFestival Zürich, (curated by Gisela Kayser and Lois Lammerhuber, in collaboration with the United Nations, ETH Zürich, and The Photo Society), Zürich, Switzerland; Schwarzenegger Climate Summit, Vienna Hofburg, Austria
2024 The Photography Show presented by AIPAD, (Monroe Gallery of Photography), Park Avenue Armory, NYC
2024 World Press Photo Flagship Exhibition, De Nieuwe Kerk, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
2024 World Press Photo Special Exhibition: Celebrating Communities, (The World Press Photo Foundation in collaboration with The NOOR Foundation), Fondation Donwahi, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire; Yamoussoukro, Côte d’Ivoire; Adzopé, Côte d’Ivoire; Université Jean Lorougnon Guédé, Tazibouo, Daloa, Côte d’Ivoire; Socoopacdi Coopérative, Heremakono Dies-Divo, Côte d’Ivoire; School in Pogréagui and ECAM Méagui, Soubré, Sassandra, Méagui, Côte d’Ivoire
2024 World Press Photo Special Exhibition: Resilience—stories of women inspiring change, (The World Press Photo Foundation in collaboration with the Kingdom of the Netherlands), Atrium City Hall, The Hague, the Netherlands; Palais des Nations, United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland; Instituto Artium, São Paulo, Brazil; Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, Athens, Greece; Galeria Fayga Ostrower, Brasilia, Brazil; Casa de Cultura Mario Quintana, Porto Alegre, Brazil; School of Design UEMG, Belo Horizonte, Brazil; İFSAK—İstanbul Fotoğraf ve Sinema Amatörleri Derneği, Istanbul, Turkey; Drik Picture Library Ltd., Dhaka, Bangladesh; National Gallery, Multimedia Centre “Mala Stanica,” Skopje, North Macedonia; Museo Franz Mayer, Mexico City, Mexico; Center Atrium, India Habitat Center, Delhi, India; Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris, Paris, France; Market Theatre Precinct and Newtown Junction Mall, Johannesburg, South Africa; Laparelli Garden, Valletta, Malta; Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto, Japan; Kalemegdan Park, Belgrade, Serbia; Netherlands at the Council of Europe (The Council of Europe, Residence of Italy, Residence of Austria, Residence of the Netherlands, Permanent Representation of Spain, Ville de Strasbourg/European Audiovisual Observatory), Strasbourg, France; Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology, Gdansk, Poland; Bangkok Art and Culture Center (BACC), Bangkok, Thailand; Università Roma Tre, Rome; Danish Cultural Institute, Beijing, China; Institute for Gender and Development Studies, University of the West Indies, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago; Alexandria Photo Week, Institut français d’Egypte à Alexandrie, Egypt; Photo Israel Festival, Enav Cultural Center and Ofer Garden, Tel Aviv, Israel; Department of Culture and Education of the German Consulate General, Shanghai, China; Autonomous University of the State of Hidalgo, Pachuca, Hidalgo, Mexico; Lkham Gallery, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia; Art Institute of the Orient, Guangzhou, China; additional exhibition locations in the Middle East and North Africa TBA
2023 DYSTURB #WomenMatter campaign against violence toward women, Gaîté Lyrique, Paris, France; Le Consulat Voltaire, Paris, France
2023 The Photography Show presented by AIPAD, (Monroe Gallery of Photography), Center415, NYC
2022 Girls on the Brink: Holding on to Fragile Futures, Too Young To Wed in partnership with The Secretary of State Office of Global Women’s Issues, U.S. State Department, Washington, D.C.
2022 Global Peace Photo Award Exhibition, Xposure International Photography Festival, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
2022 Imagine A World Without Photojournalism, Monroe Gallery of Photography, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2022 The Photography Show presented by AIPAD, (Monroe Gallery of Photography), Center415, NYC
2021 Global Peace Photo Award Exhibition, Willy-Brandt-Haus, Berlin, Germany; Festival La Gacilly-Baden Photo, Baden, Austria
2020 Paris Photo New York, History In A Moment, (Monroe Gallery of Photography), Pier 94, NYC
2019 Global Peace Photo Award Exhibition, Forum Austriaco di Cultura, Rome, Italy
2019 Women Photograph: Insider/Outsider, Gallery O on H Street, Washington, D.C.
2019 World Press Photo + National Committee for 4 and 5 May, 14 Freedom Festivals held throughout the Netherlands
2018 The Contemporary African Photography (CAP) Prize Exhibition, IAF Basel — Festival für zeitgenössische Kunst, Theaterplatz, Basel, Switzerland; Encuentros Abiertos, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Uganda Press Photo Award, Kampala, Uganda; Gallery of Photography, Dublin, Ireland
2018 DYSTURB #WomenMatter campaign against violence toward women, Zoom Photo Festival Saguenay, Cégep de Chicoutimi, Quebec
2018 Photo Vogue Festival, BASE Milano, Italy
2018 Pictures of the Year International: Visions of Excellence, Reynolds Journalism Institute, Missouri School of Journalism, Rocky & Gabriella Mountain Gallery, Central Library, Kansas City
2018 Women Photograph: Women in Photography Projection, The Indian Photography Festival, Telangana State Gallery of Fine Art, Hyderabad, India; Chapel Gallery, Objectifs, Singapore
2018 World Press Photo 18, De Nieuwe Kerk, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy; Fundacion Cajasol, Seville, Spain; Travessa do Grilo, Beato, Lisbon, Portugal; Cultural Center Zamek, Poznan, Poland; Spazio MURAT, Bari, Italy; Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; Muzeul Național de Artă al României, Bucharest, Romania; Kempinski Hotel Gold Coast City Accra, Accra, Ghana; Gruner + Jahr GmbH & Co KG, Hamburg, Germany; Shopping mall Old City, Harodnia, Belarus; Goethe Galerie Jena, Jena, Germany; Niavaran Cultural Centre, Tehran, Iran; Fondazione Sozzani, Galleria Carla Sozzani, Milan, Italy; Cultural center Korpus 8, Minsk, Belarus; State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia; Landesmuseum, Zurich, Switzerland; Willy-Brandt-Haus, Berlin, Germany; Depot Kulturort, Dortmund, Germany; Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan; Yeltsin Presidential Center, Yekaterinburg, Russia; University of Fine Arts, Hanoi, Vietnam; Level 6, Smith & Caughey’s, Auckland, New Zealand; Brisbane Powerhouse, Brisbane, Australia; Sala de Arte Moderno de Larcomar, Lima, Peru; Walburgiskerk, Zutphen, the Netherlands; Musée canadien de la guerre, Ottawa, Canada; Balti Jaam Passenger Terminal, Tallinn, Estonia; Espacio Fundación Telefónica, Santiago, Chile; Museo Franz Mayer, Mexico City, Mexico; The Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh, United Kingdom; Centro Cultural Metropolitano, Quito, Ecuador; Sanomatalo / Mediatori, Helsinki, Finland; Marché Bonsecours, Montreal, Canada; Academiehuis Grote Kerk, Zwolle, the Netherlands; Magazzino alle Zattere, Venice, Italy; Museo Municipal de Guayaqui, Guayaquil, Ecuador; Vertigo, Bouwkunde TU Eindhoven, the Netherlands; WestLicht Museum, Vienna, Austria; Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Oita, Japan; Magyar Nemzeti Múzeum (Hungarian National Museum), Budapest, Hungary; Politiken, Copenhagen, Denmark; Casa Garden, Macau, China; Brookfield Place, Allen Lambert Galleria, Toronto, Canada; LASEDE (COAM), Madrid, Spain; Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Ferrara, Italy; National Museum of Singapore, Singapore; Kyoto Museum for World Peace, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan; Centre Céramique, Maastricht, the Netherlands; Centro Cultural Montehermoso, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain; La Pulperie de Chicoutimi / Regional Museum, Chicoutimi, Canada; EXCaserma, Gavoi, Italy; Studio 94, Taipei, Taiwan; Ritsumeikan University, Shiga, Japan; Château de Prangins, Prangins, Switzerland; Synagoge Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands; Fórum da Maia, Maia, Portugal; Galeria Sztuki Wspolczesnej, Opole, Poland; St. Willibrordusbasiliek, Hulst, the Netherlands; Museum Hilversum, Hilversum, the Netherlands; Couvent des Minimes, Visa pour l’Image, Perpignan, France; Fondazione Sozzani, Paris, France
2017 DYSTURB #WomenMatter campaign against violence toward women, Preus Museum, Horten, Norway and Ballarat International Foto Biennale, Victoria, Australia; UN International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, Paris, France and Williamsburg, New York
2017 Festival Voies Off, Installation and Evening Screening, Cour de l’Archevêché and Griffeuille, Arles, France
2017 Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize, National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
2017 UNICEF Photo of the Year, Haus der Bundespressekonferenz, Berlin, Germany
2017 Women Photograph: Insider/Outsider, PHOTOVILLE, Brooklyn (curated by Mallory Benedict, Sara Ickow, and Daniella Zalcman)
2015 THE FENCE, Atlanta Celebrates Photography, Brooklyn Bridge Park, and Houston Center for Photography
2015 FotoVisura Grant Exhibition, 2015 GuatePhoto Festival, Santo Domingo del Cerro, Antigua Guatemala
2015 PHOTOVILLE, Opening Screening, Brooklyn
2014 Der Greif: A Process, Neue Galerie im Hohmannhaus, Augsburg, Germany
2014 Eyewitness: Fondation Rivera-Ortiz, Galerie Huit, Arles, France
2013 FFR at Prix Bayeux-Calvados des Correspondants de Guerre, Le Radar Espace d’Art Actuel, Normandie, France
2013 MOPLA: Month of Photography Los Angeles, Space15Twenty, Los Angeles
2012 Arte Fiera: Women in Multimedia, Spazio Labo’ Centro di Fotografia, Bologna, Italy
2011 Angkor Photo Festival, FCC Angkor, Siem Reap, Cambodia
2011 City of Los Angeles (COLA) Individual Artist Fellowship Exhibition, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles
2010 Angkor Photo Festival, Angkor National Museum, Siem Reap, Cambodia
2010 Slideluck, Maumau, Barcelona, Spain; Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder
2010 Women’s Work, Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles
2009 The Curve: CENTER Santa Fe’s Award Recipients, Photo Center NW, Seattle
2009 Havana Biennial, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Wifredo Lam, Havana, Cuba
2009 Istanbul Photo Festival, Istanbul, Turkey
2009 Prix de la Photographie Paris, Espace Dupon, Paris, France; Farmani Gallery, New York
2009 Slideluck, Tribe, Nairobi, Kenya; PhotoNOLA, New Orleans
2009 Compartiendo Sueños, Congreso Informatica, Palacio de las Convenciones, Havana, Cuba; 2008 Centro Pablo de la Torriente Brau, Majadahonda Gallery, Havana, Cuba; 2008 Museo de Arte Contemporáneo del Zulia, Maracaibo, Venezuela; 2008 Galeria del Habitat, Universidad Autonoma de San Luis Potosi, San Luis Potosi, Mexico; 2007 Centro Hispanoamericano Museo de Cultura, Havana, Cuba
2002 American Center for Design 100 Show, School of Visual Arts, New York; 2000 School of the Art Institute, Chicago; 1999 American Center for Design, Chicago
1999 America: Cult & Culture, AIGA Design Center, New York; AIGA Design Conference, Las Vegas
1998 Mediterranean Mosaics, European Community Exhibition Center, Brussels, Belgium; Alatza Imaret, Thessaloniki, Greece
1997 Communication Graphics 18, AIGA Design Conference, New Orleans
1997 Then: What? Sharing our Work, Alumni/Faculty Exhibition, Art + Architecture Gallery, Yale University, New Haven
1996 Bradbury Thompson Symposium, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven
1996 Deus Ex Machina, W Keith & Janet Kellogg University Art Gallery, Cal Poly Pomona, Los Angeles
1996 Southwest 96, Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe
1995 Los Angeles Printmaking Society National Biennial, Laband Art Gallery, Los Angeles
(curated by Elizabeth A.T. Smith, The Museum of Contemporary Art [MOCA], Los Angeles)
1994 Focus on Los Angeles Artists ll, Pauline Hirsh Gallery, Los Angeles
1993 Los Angeles Biennial of Southern California Artists, William Grant Still Arts Center, Los Angeles
1993 Los Angeles Printmaking Society National Exhibition, Laband Art Gallery and Palos Verdes Art Center, Los Angeles (curated by Henry Hopkins, The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles)
1993 Through My Window, Anchorage Museum, Anchorage
1992 Focus on Los Angeles Artists I, Pauline Hirsh Gallery, Los Angeles
1991 MFA Thesis Exhibition, Art + Architecture Gallery, Yale University, New Haven
1991 Music in Print, Hilles Gallery, New Haven
1990 MFA Student Show, Art + Architecture Gallery, Yale University, New Haven
RECOGNITION
2025 Creative Capacity Fund Professional Development Award, Recipient
2023 Victoria and Albert Museum Parasol Foundation Prize for Women in Photography, Short List
2022 Michel du Cille Fellowship, Recipient
2022 New York Portfolio Review, Invitation to participate
2021 Leica Women Foto Project Award, Recipient
2021 National Geographic COVID-19 Emergency Fund for Journalists, Grantee
2020 The Alexia Grant, Professional Finalist
2020 Artist + Activist Relief Fund Grant, Grantee
2020 ASMP Donor’s Circle (Covid-19) Grant, Grantee
2020 Creative Capacity Fund Professional Development Award, Grantee
2020 Focus on the Story Best Single Image Award, Recipient
2020 Imagely Fund, Humanitarian Category, Third Place
2020 National Press Photographers Association (NPPA) Covid-19 Emergency Relief Fund, Grantee
2020 Pictures of the Year International, Sports Portrait, Second Place
2019 The Alexia Grant, Professional Short List
2019 Getty Images Reportage Grant, Grantee
2019 Prix Pictet, Nominee
2018 Aaron Siskind Individual Photographer’s Fellowship, Recipient
2018 ANI-PixTrakk Award Perpignan, Short List
2018 The Contemporary African Photography Prize, Recipient
2018 Peace Image of the Year Award, Recipient
2018 PHmuseum Women Photographers Grant, Finalist
2018 Pictures of the Year International, News Division, Feature, Award of Excellence
2018 Women Photograph + Nikon Grant, Grantee
2018 World Press Photo Award, People, Second Prize Stories, Recipient
2017 Arles Voies Off Awards, Short List
2017 Creative Capacity Fund Professional Development Award, Grantee
2017 Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson HCB Award, Nominee
2017 Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize, Short List
2017 UNICEF Photo of the Year, On the Girls’ Right Not to Drown, Honorable Mention
2016 Creative Capacity Fund Professional Development Award, Grantee
2016 Visura Instagram Takeover, (Curated by Elizabeth Krist), Recipient
2016 Visura Photojournalism Grant, Honorable Mention
2015 Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson HCB Award, Nominee
2015 Fondation Rivera-Ortiz Grant, Finalist
2015 FotoVisura Grant for Outstanding Personal Project, Honorable Mention
2015 PDN’s 30: New and Emerging Photographers to Watch, Nominee
2015 Photocrati Fund Fellowship, Fourth Place
2015 UNICEF Photo of the Year, Nominee
2014 Best of ASMP, Recipient
2014 Fondation Rivera-Ortiz Grant, Finalist
2014 PDN’s 30: New and Emerging Photographers to Watch, Nominee
2013 Fondation Rivera-Ortiz Grant, Finalist
2012 Center for Cultural Innovation Investing in Artists Grant, Finalist
2012 Creative Capacity Fund Professional Development Award, Grantee
2012 Eddie Adams Workshop XXV Los Angeles Times Assignment Award, Recipient
2012 Médecins Sans Frontières Culture Channel Prize, Recipient
2012 Photocrati Fund Fellowship, Third Place
2012 Puffin Foundation Grant, Grantee
2011 City of Los Angeles (C.O.L.A.) Individual Artist Fellowship, Recipient
2011 Creative Capacity Fund Professional Development Award, Grantee
2011 Photocrati Fund Fellowship, Finalist
2011 POYi Emerging Vision Incentive, Nominee
2011 UNICEF Photo of the Year, Nominee
2010 Creative Capacity Fund Professional Development Award, Grantee
2010 PHotoEspaña Descubrimientos PHE, Madrid, Invitation to participate
2010 UNICEF Photo of the Year, Nominee
2009 CANON Female Photojournalist Award, Short List
2009 CENTER Singular Image Curator’s Choice, Second Prize
2009 Prix de la Photographie Paris, Photojournalism Feature Story First Place
2009 UNICEF Photo of the Year, Nominee
2008 CENTER Santa Fe Singular Image, Second Prize
2006 American Academy in Rome, Rome Prize Finalist
2005 American Academy in Rome, Visiting Artist
2000 American Center for Design Award, ACD100 Recipient
2000 American Institute of Graphic Arts Award, Recipient
1998 American Institute of Graphic Arts Award, Recipient
1997 Communication Arts Award, Recipient
1997 Society of Publication Designers Award, Recipient
SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
2023 Open Your Eyes: FotoFestival, Anna Boyiazis in Conversation with Peter-Matthias Gaede (GEO/UNICEF), Zürich, Switzerland
2020 Nikon Creator’s Hour: Compelling Storytelling in Photography with Anna Boyiazis, New York
2020 Talks by Women Photographers: Conversation with Saumya Khandelwal, New Delhi, India
2020 United Nations of Photography Podcast—A Photographic Life, Episode 93: Plus Photographer Anna Boyiazis, Oxford, UK
2019 Fowler Museum at UCLA, Artist Talk: Anna Boyiazis, Los Angeles
2018 World Press Photo Festival, Guest Speaker, Westergastheater, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
2018 World Press Photo Montréal, Guest of Honor, Marché Bonsecours, Montréal, Canada
2018 World Press Photo Montréal, Guest Speaker, Le Collège Dawson Amphithéâtre, Montréal, Canada
2018 World Press Photo Montréal, Guest Speaker, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada
2018 World Press Photo Venice, Venice, Italy
2018 World Press Photo Vienna, Guest of Honor, WestLicht, Vienna, Austria
2018 World Press Photo Vienna, Guest Speaker, WestLicht, Vienna, Austria
2018 Peace Image of the Year Award Ceremony, Austrian Parliament Hofburg, Vienna, Austria
2018 The Contemporary African Photography Prize Exhibition Artist Talks, Theaterplatz, Basel, Switzerland
2017 Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, C.O.L.A.20 Salon Conversation Panel Participant, Los Angeles
2011 Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Conversations with the Artists Gallery Talk, Los Angeles
2007 AIGA Center for Cross Cultural Design (AIGAXCD), Compartiendo Suenos, Havana, Cuba
1996 Cal Poly Pomona Dept of Art College of Environmental Design, Panel Discussion Lecturer, Pomona
INTERVIEWS
Best of ASMP
DYSTURB #womenmatter
WePresent: WeTransfer x The World Press Photo Awards
World Photography Organisation
World Press Photo Audio Interview
PORTFOLIO REVIEWER
2024 World Press Photo ‘The Stories That Matter’ Portfolio Reviews, De Nieuwe Kerk, Amsterdam
2018 World Press Photo Portfolio Potluck Review, L’Esplanade, Montréal
TEACHING
2001 UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture, Visiting Lecturer
2000 Otis College of Art and Design, Senior Thesis Critic
////// Art Center College of Design, Faculty, 1998–2000
1991 Yale School of Art, Teaching Fellowship
WORKSHOP ASSISTING
2015 Ron Haviv Workshop Assistant
2014 Todd Hido Workshop Assistant
2013 Ashley Gilbertson Workshop Assistant
2013 Eddie Adams Workshop XXVI Black Team
APPOINTMENTS
Anna Boyiazis Design, Design Director, Los Angeles, 1991–2007
The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles, Head Designer, 1996–99
Sussman/Prejza & Company Inc, Designer, 1992–94
SELECT PUBLICATIONS
Charley Locke. Introduction by David Wallace-Wells. “The Climate Generation: It haunted their childhood, has upended their adolescence — and will define the rest of their lives.” New York, NY: The New York Times Magazine (The Climate Issue): (November 10, 2024).
Heiner Hoffmann. “How the dream island of Zanzibar becomes a technology location.” Hamburg, Germany: Der Spiegel Magazine (Global Societies): (May 2024).
Claudi Carreras Guillen. “Inside the Curve: Stories From the Pandemic.” Exh. cat. Washington, D.C., USA: National Geographic (November 2023).
Amel Brahmi. “A quiet revolution: the female imams taking over an LA mosque.” London, UK: The Guardian (World News): (November 23, 2021).
Abe, Naoko; Boyd, William; Rees, Martin; and Scruton, Roger. HOPE: The Eighth Prix Pictet Award. Exh. cat. Krefeld, Germany: teNeues (2019): 72–73, 131.
Brett Okamoto. “Cut and Dried Out: Looking to become the fourth-ever dual title holder, TJ Dillashaw attempts to cut an additional 10 pounds and drop to 125 pounds to face Henry Cejudo.” ESPN (January 18, 2019).
Lars Boering and Magdalena Herrera. World Press Photo 2018 Yearbook. World Press Photo 2018 Exhibition. Exh. cat. Germany: Schilt Publishing and World Press Photo Foundation: (April 2018): 136–141, 237, back cover.
Füglister, Benjamin. CAP Prize 2018: The Contemporary African Photography Prize. Exh. cat. Berlin, Germany: CAP Association (2018): 54–67.
McClure, Richard. Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2017. Exh. cat. London, UK: National Portrait Gallery Publications (2017): 44.
COLA/20: City of Los Angeles Individual Artist Fellowship Exhibition. Exh. cat. Los Angeles, California: Department of Cultural Affairs (2017): 28, 84, 91–94.
Sara Terry. “Anna Boyiazis.” City of Los Angeles (COLA) Individual Artist Fellowship Exhibition. Exh. cat. Los Angeles, California: COLA: (May 2011).
Nais Mason and Angela Rupprecht. “Kinder leben in Afrika.” UNICEF News: Special Edition. Cologne, Germany: UNICEF: no. 2 (June 2010): 9.
Carpio, Francisco. Descubrimientos 2010. PHotoEspaña cat. Madrid, Spain: La Fabrica: (June 2010): 48–49.
Drenttel, William, and Jessica Helfand. “The Lost Picture Show: American Center for Design, 1999.” Below the Fold: ACD 100. Falls Village, Connecticut: The Winterland Institute: vol. 1, no. 4 (Summer 2007): 3–15.
Compartiendo Sueños: Cuba y Los Estados Unidos Cruzan la Brecha Digital/Sharing Dreams: Cuba and The U.S. Cross the Digital Divide. Exh. cat. Havana, Cuba: The American Institute of Graphic Arts Center for Cross Cultural Design (AIGA XCD), The Centro Cultural Pablo de la Torriente Brau, and the Union of Cuban Artists and Writers (UNEAC), 2007.
Heller, Steven, Paula Scher, Véronique Vienne, and Lorraine Wild. Graphic Design USA 20: The Annual of the American Institute of Graphic Arts. New York, New York: The American Institute of Graphic Arts and Watson-Guptill Publications (2000): 136.
Codrington, Andrea, Michael Dooley, Steven Heller, and Martha Scotford. Graphic Design USA 18: The Annual of the American Institute of Graphic Arts. New York, New York: The American Institute of Graphic Arts and Watson-Guptill Publications (1998): 240.
Communication Arts Design Annual 38. New York, New York: (November 1997): 78–79.
The Society of Publication Designers Thirty-second Publication Design Annual. Beverly, Massachusetts, and New York, New York: Rockport Publishers and The Society of Publication Designers (1997): 122.
Smith, Elizabeth A.T. “Printmaking in the Expanded Field.” Los Angeles Printmaking Society Thirteenth National Exhibition. Exh. cat. Los Angeles, California: Los Angeles Printmaking Society (1995): 7–8, 19.
Hopkins, Henry T. “Some Thought on Prints and Printmaking, Part ll.” Los Angeles Printmaking Society Twelfth Annual Exhibition. Exh. cat. Los Angeles, California: Los Angeles Printmaking Society (1992): 10, 15.
SELECT PRESS
Tim Adams, The big picture: the simple liberation of floating, The Guardian, London, UK, 2023
Gilles Steinmann, ‘Open Your Eyes’ photo festival 2023: Sustainable development in a photographic focus, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Zürich, Switzerland, 2023
Gail Fletcher and Alvin Chang, Our favourite photos from 2021: how Guardian US pictures captured a historic year, The Guardian, London, UK, 2021
Kenneth Dickerman, Here are the winners of this year’s Leica Women Foto Project Awards, Washington Post, Washington, D.C., 2021
Maggie Steber, Lauréates du Leica Women’s Grant 2021: Matika Wilbur, Karen Zusman & Anna Boyiazis, L’oeil de la Photographie, Paris, France, 2021
Michele Abercrombie, Want To See Inspiring Pix? Check Out These Award-Winning Photos, NPR, Washington, D.C., 2021
Conor Risch, 2019 Getty Reportage Grants of $15K Announced, PDN, New York, NY, 2019
Getty Images announces winners of 2019 Reportage Photography Grant, in pictures, The Telegraph, London, UK, 2019
Getty Reportage Grant winners in pictures, The Sunday Times, London, UK, 2019
Angela Schader and Gilles Steinmann, Die Nixen von Sansibar — ein Foto-Tableau von Anna Boyiazis, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Zürich, Switzerland, 2018
Courtney Columbus, Extraordinary Moments: Top Contenders For A Photojournalism Prize, NPR, Washington, D.C., 2018
Diane Smyth, 2018 Women Photograph Grant winners announced, British Journal of Photography, London, UK, 2018
Diane Smyth, 25 artists shortlisted for Contemporary African Photography Prize, British Journal of Photography, London, UK, 2018
Diane Smyth, 31 women to watch out for, British Journal of Photography, London, UK, 2018
Diane Smyth, World Press Photo MD Lars Boering on the 2018 contest, British Journal of Photography, London, UK, 2018
fotoMAGAZIN, Bild/Portfolio, “Welt Im Wandel. Von langen Entscheidungswegen und kurzen Listen: Der renommierte World Press Photo Award wird in diesem Jahr erstmals in einem abgewandelten Verfahren verliehen.” Hamburg, Germany, 2018
Henriette Lind, 45 pletskud: Her er alle de billeder, der kan vinde priser i World Press Photo i år, Politiken, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2018
Henriette Lind, FOTO 2018: Det vildeste var at se, når frygten slap. Og de bare begyndte at nyde det. Vandet. Vægtløsheden. Friheden, Politiken, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2018
Lars Lindemann and Christian Gogolin, GEO Annual Review: The 50 most impressive pictures of the year, GEO Magazine, Hamburg, Germany, 2018
Magdalena Herrera, The Photos That Stuck With Me: Eight of the jury chair’s favorite nominated photos from this year’s World Press Photo Contest, Witness, World Press Photo Foundation, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 2018
Mathilde Saljougui, “Sansibarin tytöt uivat vastavirtaan,” Valokuva, GEO Finland, Helsinki, Finland, 2018
Mathilde Saljougui, “Zanzibar: Des Filles à Contre-Courant,” Regard, GEO France, Paris, France, 2018
Mathilde Saljougui, “Zanzibar: Plávanie proti tabu,” GEO Slovakia, Fotografia, Bratislava, Slovakia, 2018
Olivier Laurent, These photographs are World Press Photo winners, Washington Post, 2018
Prizewinning images of Africa, from grasshoppers to street life — In Pictures, The Guardian, London, UK, 2018
Samantha Clark, Women Photograph Announces 2018 Grant Recipients, NPR, Washington, D.C., 2018
Stern Gesund Leben, Hamburg, 2018
“TANSANIA: Das Meer erobern,” Kosmos, GEO Germany, Hamburg, Germany, 2018
We talk World Press Photo and photographs that make history with Vogue Italia’s senior photo editor Alessia Glaviano, Cortona on the Move, Italy, 2018
World Press Photo 2018: et les nommés sont…, GEO France, 2018
World Press Photo 2018, National Geographic Romania, 2018
World Press Photo Contest 2018 – The Nominees in Pictures, The Guardian, London, UK, 2018
“Deeper Water: They Might Live Beside the Ocean But the Girls of Zanzibar are only just Learning to Swim,” Marie Claire Australia, 2017
Diane Smyth, Arles 2017: Voies Off, British Journal of Photography, London, UK, 2017
Sarah Stacke, Auf „Burkini Island“ können die Frauen und Mädchen Sansibars endlich Schwimmen lernen, National Geographic Germany, 2017
Sarah Stacke, Descubre la «Isla Burkini», donde a las niñas musulmanas se les permite por fin aprender a nadar, National Geographic Spain, 2017
Sarah Stacke, On ‘Burkini Island’ Muslim Girls Can Finally Learn to Swim, National Geographic, 2017
Sarah Stacke, “On ‘Burkini Island’ Muslim Girls Can Finally Learn to Swim,” National Geographic Australia, 2017
Sarah Stacke, “Zanzibar, imparare a nuotare col burkini,” National Geographic Italy, 2017
Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2017 — In Pictures, The Guardian. London, UK, 2017
Ellyn Kail, 16 of Our Favorite Photos from The Fence 2015, Feature Shoot, New York, 2015
Christopher Knight, Art review: 2011 COLA Individual Artist Fellowship, Los Angeles Times, 2011
Mireya Castañeda, “Del Pincel al mouse: 9° Salon y Coloquio de Arte Digital,” Granma Internacional, Havana, Culture Section, Dutch, English, French, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish editions, 2003
“Alumni,” UCLArts, Los Angeles, 2001
“Faculty Activities,” UCLA Design/Media Arts News Report, Los Angeles, 2001
“Jessica Bronson Catalogue,” American Institute of Graphic Arts, AIGA Design Archives, 1999
“Paradise Cage: Kiki Smith and Coop Himmelblau,” American Institute of Graphic Arts, AIGA Design Archives, 1997
“Statements 13,” The American Center for Design, Chicago, 1996
James Weiss, “Art review: What you see (and hear) is what you get,” New Haven Register, New Haven, 1991
Takenobu Igarashi, “Portfolio 27,” Tokyo, 1989
COLLECTIONS
AIGA Archives at the Denver Art Museum
AIGA Design Archives online
Art Collection of the Austrian Parliament, Vienna
Numerous Private Collections
UCLA Arts Library Artists’ Book Collection
Yale University Art & Architecture Library
Yale University Sterling Memorial Library Arts of the Book Collection
BOOKS DESIGNED
AMY ADLER
Publisher: The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles
Author: Cornelia H. Butler
Softcover: 64 pages
Language: English
Printing: Germany
BRONSON
Publisher: The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles
Author: Cornelia H. Butler
Softcover: 28 pages
Language: English
Printing: USA
KCHO: TODO CAMBIA
Publisher: The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles
Authors: Alma Ruiz and Paul Schimmel
Hardcover: 64 pages
Languages: English and Spanish
Printing: USA
MORPHOSIS
Publisher: Phaidon Press
Author: Thom Mayne and Val Warke
Hardcover and Softcover: 288 pages
Language: English
Printing: Hong Kong
PARADISE CAGE: KIKI SMITH AND COOP HIMMELBLAU
Publisher: The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles
Author: Elizabeth A. T. Smith
Softcover: 34 pages
Language: English
Printing: USA
THE POWER OF SUGGESTION: NARRATIVE AND NOTATION IN CONTEMPORARY DRAWING
Co-publishers: Smart Art Press and The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles
Author: Cornelia H. Butler
Softcover: 46 pages
Language: English
Printing: USA