Anne Appleby (b. 1954, Harrisburg, PA) lives and works in Jefferson City, MT. Appleby studied at Philadelphia College of Art before relocating to Montana in 1971, subsequently earning her B.F.A. at the University of Montana, Missoula, and eventually establishing a studio and residence in the sparsely populated community of Jefferson City. In addition to receiving her M.F.A. from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1989, Appleby’s educational background includes a fifteen-year apprenticeship with Ojibwa artist and holy man Ed Barbeau, with whom she learned and refined processes of intense meditative awareness in nature and connected with her own Ojibwe heritage. Appleby’s approach synthesizes a time-based, observational process and an abiding appreciation for the natural world; in her works, Appleby transforms nature’s fluid evolution to the painted realm.

Anne Appleby’s works have been exhibited in numerous solo exhibitions at galleries and museums worldwide, including Mayor Gallery (London, UK), Gallery Paule Anglim (San Francisco, CA), Villa e Collezione Panza (Varese, IT), and Borzo Gallery  (Amsterdam, NL). Her works are held in the permanent collections of the Buffalo AKG Art Museum (Buffalo, NY), Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, IL), Daimler Art Collection (Stuttgart/Berlin, DE), Denver Museum of Art (Denver, CO), National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC), Panza Collection (Lugano, CH), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (San Francisco, CA), and the Seattle Art Museum (Seattle, WA), amongst others. A solo exhibition titled A Hymn for the Mother took place at the Missoula Art Museum (MT) in 2021.

Anne Appleby is represented by Franklin Parrasch Gallery and parrasch heijnen, Los Angeles.