Anna Lyle (b. 1992, Birmingham, Alabama) received her Bachelor of Architecture from Mississippi State University in 2015 and her Master of Fine Arts degree from Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 2023. She has exhibited work in galleries across the United States—including New York, California, Florida, Alabama, and Minnesota—with works in private collections in the United States, Canada, and Germany. She currently lives and works in Birmingham, AL.
Statement
Lyle's work exists at the intersection of realism and abstraction through deliberate mark-making. Her practice is grounded in traditional painting and drawing, utilizing graphite, color pencil, oil painting, and mixed media to explore the physical, psychological, and social dimensions of embodiment.
Her recent work investigates the body in states of transformation, constraint, and autonomy. These pieces examine the tension between constructed and organic existence—bodies that are assembled yet insist on beating, structures that fail when pressed, flesh that splits where old forms no longer fit. Through rendered viscera, exposed anatomy, and fragmented forms, the work explores how external forces shape our physical selves into something that feels manufactured, stitched together from expectation rather than grown.