Anna Schuleit Haber

Anna Schuleit Haber (born 1974) is a German-

Biography
Anna Schuleit Haber attended high school at
Northfield Mount Hermon School before studying
painting and art history at the Rhode Island School of
Design where she received her B.F.A. in 1998, and her
M.A. in creative writing / book arts at Dartmouth
Schuleit Haber in 2019
College in 2005.[1] In 2013 Schuleit Haber married
composer Yotam Haber.[2] Born Anna Schuleit
1974 (age 49–50)
Mainz, Germany
Work Alma mater Rhode Island School of Design
Occupation Artist
Trained as a painter, Schuleit Haber's works range
Years active 1998–present
from museum installations made with paint, to large-
scale projects in forests, on uninhabited islands, and in Notable work "Habeas Corpus" (2000)
psychiatric institutions, using extensive sound systems, "Bloom" (2003)
live sod, thousands of flowers, mirrors, antique "Landlines" (2007)
telephones, bodies of water, and neuroscience "Just a Rumor" (2010-11)
technologies. "The Alphabet" (2015)
"One Silver, One Gold" (2018)
Her work has been featured in exhibitions at the "The Magic Years" (2020-22)
Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) Boston, the Movement Contemporary
Museum of Fine Arts Boston; the University Museum
Awards MacArthur Fellow
of Contemporary Art; Bowdoin College, Brunswick,
Radcliffe Fellow
Maine; the Brattleboro Museum; The Matzo Files,
NYC; the Mousonturm, Frankfurt, Germany; and the
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University, among others.[3] Her works are included in
private collections throughout the U.S., Europe, Asia, and Australia, as well as in the Stedelijk Museum
Amsterdam, and the Vehbi Koç Foundation at ARTER, Istanbul, Turkey.

She has been a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, the RISD European Honors Program
in Rome, the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, Blue Mountain Center, the Banff Centre, and the Bogliasco
Foundation in Italy.[4]
In 2006 Schuleit Haber was named a MacArthur Fellow[4] for work that has "conceptual clarity,
compassion, and beauty".

"Just a Rumor" was commissioned by the University Museum of Contemporary Art in Amherst, 2010–11,
a large, outdoor work in which wild ducks became the artist's collaborators. It consisted of a mostly
abstract, three-story-high, upside-down, painted portrait of a male face. When the portrait's reflection was
viewed on the surface of the adjacent campus pond, the image was inverted, producing a double-portrait:
the upside-down original and the right-side-up reflection of it. The painting measured 30' x 40', nearly
1200 square feet, created in acrylic paint. The effects of the reflected face in the water were changing
constantly throughout the day and into the night, inviting viewers to re-visit the site at different times.
The pond was also home to wild ducks that acted as unwitting collaborators in the piece: as they criss-
crossed the reflected painting, spontaneous moments of abstraction were created, making the face
disappear from the water's surface, and then re-appear at random. The painting and its reflection in the
water were not marked, there was no explanatory signage to follow, rather, they had to be discovered and
pieced together by the viewer.

Schuleit Haber then served as visiting artist at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY, working
on a call-and-response collaborative piece with graduate students in composition Rachel Seah, Anthony
Duarte, Stylianos Dimou, and Jason Thorpe Buchanan.

In 2013 she began "The Voice Imitator" project, for which she was awarded a NYFA grant. The project
encompasses a series of 104 abstract works inspired by short stories by the Austrian writer Thomas
Bernhard. Works from this series were on view at Art Central Hong Kong and at the Saatchi Gallery,
London. Other recent exhibitions include two-person and solo-shows in New York City, as well as set
designs created in collaboration with dancers at the Chocolate Factory Theater, and at New York Live
Arts in NYC.

As part of a 2015 museum commission and a National Endowment for the Arts grant, Schuleit Haber
embedded herself in a small-town newsroom where she staged a serial 'take-over' of twenty-six front
pages in collaboration with typographers from around the world, poets, writers, journalists, local citizens,
and students. The contributing typographers included Matthew Carter, Cyrus Highsmith, Nicholas
Benson, Ahrens and Mugikura, Catherine Griffiths, Esen Karol, Indra Kupferschmidt, Akira Kobayashi,
among many others.[5] The project had written contributions by Neil Gaiman, Kurt Vonnegut, Jeff
Sharlet, Peter Gizzi, George Saunders and Adrian Nicole LeBlanc. Studio 360's Kurt Andersen reviewed
the project and described it as 'brilliant.' [6] The print edition reached 15,000, and the project received two
New England Newspaper & Press Association awards. "If newspapers are about literacy, then this series
is the ultimate." the judges wrote. [7]

In 2019-20 she worked on "Ser Du Mig," a collaboration on the theme of urban poverty with the Danish
group 'CoreAct' led by performance artists Anika Barkan and Helene Kvint, and playwright Abelone
Koppel, which premiered at Teater Grob, Copenhagen, during the pandemic. [8] Other works appeared in
Agni, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Believer, The Massachusetts Review, and in the journal of the
Cleveland Urban Design Center.

From 2020 through 2022 Schuleit Haber created a commissioned work, "The Magic Years," for a private
collection in Winter Park, Florida, inspired by the writings of the child psychoanalyst Selma Fraiberg.
Schuleit Haber's current works include a multi-year, collaborative project about grief and forests for
which she was awarded a 2023 Summer fellowship at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute.

References
1. MacArthur Fellowship Citation (http://www.macfound.org/fellows/789/), 2006
2. Lipton, Lauren (2013-05-10). "Anna Schuleit and Yotam Haber - Vows" (https://www.nytime
s.com/2013/05/12/fashion/weddings/anna-schuleit-and-yotam-haber-vows.html). The New
York Times. ISSN 0362-4331 (https://search.worldcat.org/issn/0362-4331). Retrieved
2016-05-16.
3. "Fellow" (http://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/people/anna-schuleit). Radcliffe Institute for
Advanced Study at Harvard University. 2006. Retrieved 2016-05-16.
4. "MacArthur Foundation honors three Harvard faculty members, Radcliffe fellow" (https://we
b.archive.org/web/20160303212741/http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/2006/09.21/99-macart
hur.html). Harvard News. 2006. Archived from the original (http://www.news.harvard.edu/gaz
ette/2006/09.21/99-macarthur.html) on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2016-05-16.
5. "This newspaper is giving its front page to an artist for 26 days" (https://www.poynter.org/rep
orting-editing/2015/this-newspaper-is-giving-its-front-page-to-an-artist-for-26-days/). 22 July
2015.
6. "The ABC's of Public Art | Studio 360" (https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/studio/segme
nts/the-abc-of-public-art).
7. "Front-page honor letter-perfect" (https://www.sentinelandenterprise.com/2016/10/07/front-p
age-honor-letter-perfect/). 7 October 2016.
8. "SER DU MIG – Teater Grob" (https://www.grob.dk/forestilling/ser-du-mig/). 21 August 2020.

External links
Schuleit Haber Studio (http://www.anna-haber.com)
Profile Page at the MacArthur Foundation (http://www.macfound.org/fellows/789/)
Profile Page at Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies (http://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/peo
ple/anna-schuleit)
Artist Page at Coleman Burke Gallery (http://www.colemanburke.com/newyork/annaschuleit.
html)
Interview with Lybba, 2012 (http://www.lybba.org/blog/flowers-in-the-hospital-or-the-postmod
ern-archeology-of-anna-schuleit/)
Interview with Colossal, 2012 (http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2012/03/bloom-28000-potted-fl
owers-installed-at-the-massachusetts-mental-health-center/)
Interview with Tift Merritt on KRTS Marfa, Texas Public Radio, 2011 (https://archive.today/20
130128052334/http://www.marfaspark.com/program26.htm)

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