Anna Thorne (American, b. 1994) is an award-winning artist currently living in New York City. From abstractions of light to landscapes and city views, Thorne’s work is a visual homage to the silent beauty underpinning the fabric of daily life. Her work has been exhibited and published both nationally and internationally.
“I wish to speak without words, that is why I’m a photographer. There is a whole world of communication that happens non-linguistically: gut feelings, a strange sense of familiarity, the experience of presence, the eyes of love, so much goes unsaid than what is said. But words are concrete, words are digestible, while the nonverbal realm is abstract and gives you no promises. It is a way of feeling through life, becoming immersed within the invisible realm of life that surrounds each of us. It is in the realm of silent understandings that I feel most familiar with.”
Thorne’s art and writing on photography has been published and exhibited both nationally and internationally. Her work has been published in See-Zeen, the Academic Journal of Postdigital Science and Education, Photographer’s Forum and Halation Magazine, among others. Thorne held a virtual solo show with Gallery Gray in the spring of 2022 and her photographs have been exhibited at the Snite Museum of Art, the Southeast Museum of Photography, the Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Millepiani (Italy), Kaiser Gallery, the Orlando Public Library, the News Journal Center (Daytona Beach, Florida) and the Orlando Science Center, among others. Her work is in the collection of the Southeast Museum of Photography in Daytona Beach, Florida. Thorne received her M.F.A. in Studio Arts at the University of Notre Dame in 2021.
