Anna Agoston is an award-winning contemporary artist whose medium is photography. A resident of Brooklyn, New York, Anna was born and raised in Paris, France. Always passionate about art, she qualified as an architect DPLG (government-certification) at the Ecole d'Architecture Paris Malaquais, and went on to earn the M.Arch.II degree in architecture at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design. There, she studied fine art photography under Professor Jim Dow of the Department of Visual and Environmental studies, and photographed her first series, “Dorm.”
In October 2013, Anna made her lifelong passion, fine art photography her main professional occupation. Since January 2014, Anna's work has been included in juried group exhibitions, in ten different states. One of her photographs is now a part of the Permanent Collection at the Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Indiana. She has received six international awards, and has been published online several times. Her self-published books Untitled Vol.1 and Untitled Vol.2 were recently added to the library at the Museum of Modern Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Fine Arts Library at the Harvard Art Museums, and the Hirsch Library at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. On July 22 2015, Anna's first article "An Artist's Perspective on Inspiration and Making Art" was published on the Huffington Post Arts & Culture Blog. Her article "Art seen through the lens of its architect" was published in the Huff Post on December 31st 2015. Her article "Untitled Vol.2" was published in L'Oeil de la Photographie on February 8th 2016.
Concerning her book, Anna was honored to receive an email on May 22nd 2014 from the internationally renowned architect and recipient of the 2013 Pritzker architecture prize Mr. Toyo Ito. In his email Toyo Ito writes "Pictures in your book are so beautiful that they give me design inspiration.”
