Ann Krasner

Ann Krasner is a contemporary artist who creates paintings, sculptures, and large installations. Born in 1967 in the former Soviet Union, she immigrated to the United States with her husband, Paul, in 1988 as a political refugee. She eventually settled in Malibu, California, where she raised three children and established both her studio practice and the creative environment that became central to her life and work.

Krasner’s path to art was unconventional. Before dedicating herself fully to her artistic practice, she received a Master’s degree in Mathematical Optimization, an education that developed her fascination with structure, movement, balance, and complex systems. After immigrating to the United States, she continued her education in Los Angeles and earned an MBA. Her background in mathematics and business exists in striking contrast to the intuitive, expressive nature of her art, yet the coexistence of analytical thinking and creative freedom has remained an important part of her artistic identity.

Over the course of her career, Krasner has developed a distinctive and immediately recognizable visual language characterized by intense color, movement, emotional energy, experimentation, and a freedom from conventional boundaries between artistic media. Her subjects range from the human figure, storytelling, dance, and music to landscape, memory, relationships, animals, and imagined worlds.

Krasner has created more than 7,000 original works, including oil paintings, sculptures, bronzes, ceramics, and mixed-media pieces. Her works are held in private and public collections in the United States and internationally, and her career has included museum exhibitions and presentations, major art fairs, cultural events, performing-arts venues, festivals, public installations, gallery exhibitions, and interdisciplinary collaborations.

Krasner’s work has been exhibited in numerous museums including: The National Art Museum of Catalonia in Barcelona; The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow; the Philadelphia Museum of Art, R/S Division; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, R/S Division; the Smithsonian Institution; the New Britain Museum of American Art; the Carnegie Art Museum; Annmarie Sculpture Garden & Arts Center; the Yerevan Museum of Modern Art; and the San Diego Museum of Living Artists.

Her work has also been presented through a wide range of international exhibitions, installations, festivals, performing-arts venues, and cultural programs. These include Burning Man, the Telluride International Jazz Festival, Salon des Artistes Français — Le Salon 1999 in Paris, Galerie du Toit de la Grande Arche de la Défense in Paris, Lincoln Center in New York, the Thousand Oaks Performing Arts Center in California from 2009 to 2019, the Pacific Design Center in Los Angeles, EuroArt in Geneva, the Olympia Art Fair in London, MAHMA in California, New West Symphony Summerfest, and the 44th Annual Grammy Awards / MusiCares. Her exhibition history additionally includes gallery presentations in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Boston, Moscow, Yerevan, London, Paris, Geneva, and Barcelona, reflecting the international reach of her work.

Krasner created the Malibu Art Garden, an outdoor sculpture garden where her art exists in direct conversation with the surrounding landscape. Set within the natural beauty of the Pacific Coast, the garden is designed to be experienced rather than simply viewed by individual visitors and tour groups. 

Krasner’s artistic practice extends beyond traditional gallery and museum settings. Her work has intersected with music, dance, performance, large-scale installations, festivals, public environments, and book illustration, allowing her imagery to move across disciplines and reach audiences outside the conventional exhibition space.

Based in Malibu, Krasner continues to work, approaching each new body of work as an opportunity for experimentation rather than repetition. Across decades of practice and thousands of works, a consistent thread remains: an interest in transforming lived experience, memory, movement, imagination, and the surrounding world into a highly personal visual language.