Anna Park

Anna Park was born in 1996 in Daegu, South Korea, and moved with her family to the United States while young, growing up largely in Salt Lake City, Utah, where she trained in figure drawing for several years under a local mentor beginning in elementary school. She moved to New York to study painting and illustration at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, attending for about two years before leaving for graduate study in drawing at the New York Academy of Art.

Her education is reported inconsistently across sources. Wikipedia and several gallery biographies state that she earned an MFA and a Certificate of Fine Arts from the New York Academy of Art after about two years at Pratt Institute, while Vogue reports that she went directly to the New York Academy of Art, a private graduate art school, without ever completing an undergraduate degree. Given these conflicting accounts from credible, named sources, her exact degree history should be treated as unresolved rather than settled.

Park's career accelerated quickly after graduate school. Her early solo exhibition Honeymoon opened at Ross and Kramer Gallery's East Hampton space in 2019, the same year she won First Prize in the AXA Art Prize and the Grand Prize in Strokes of Genius 11: Finding Beauty. In 2020 she held her first European solo show, On Tilt, at T293 in Rome, and by 2021 she was showing at Half Gallery in New York and Blum and Poe, later known as BLUM, in Los Angeles. Museum recognition followed with Last Call, a solo presentation at the SCAD Museum of Art in 2022 to 2023, and Mirror Shy at Blum and Poe's Los Angeles space in 2022. In 2024 she held a museum exhibition in Australia, Look, look. Anna Park, at the Art Gallery of Western Australia. In March 2025, Lehmann Maupin announced that it now represents her, with subsequent presentations at Art Basel Hong Kong, a solo show at Leeahn Gallery in her native Daegu, and a first solo exhibition in London, Hot Honey, opening in 2026. She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

Critics and curators have consistently pointed to the physical energy and technical control of Park's charcoal drawings, in which crowded, fragmented figures suggest scenes of celebration, argument, and spectacle drawn from advertising and screen culture. Her rapid movement from a first gallery solo in 2019 to institutional exhibitions at the SCAD Museum of Art and the Art Gallery of Western Australia within five years has been read by the art press as evidence of unusually fast critical and curatorial consensus around her work. No verbatim, individually attributed critic quotations from major outlets could be confirmed for this profile, so her reception is summarized here rather than quoted directly.

Park's auction market is young and comparatively thin, consistent with an artist still early in her career. The highest price publicly reported for her work is approximately USD 484,307, for a painting, according to MutualArt's price database; the specific work, auction house, and exact sale date behind that figure are not independently confirmed in the sources reviewed for this profile. Because so few of her works have reached auction, any individual sale result should be read as a data point in a small, still-developing secondary market rather than a stable price trend.

Park's market combines strong primary-market demand, evidenced by gallery representation moving from Blum and Poe and Half Gallery to Lehmann Maupin, with an auction record that is still built on a small number of sales and whose top reported figure cannot be tied to a specific, confirmed lot. There is no catalogue raisonne, so provenance and gallery documentation carry extra weight when evaluating a work. Collectors should also be aware that her formal educational credentials are described inconsistently across gallery biographies and press accounts, a detail that speaks to her early career rather than to the market for her work, but one worth knowing before repeating unverified claims about her training.