Anna Tsouhlarakis received her B.A. from Dartmouth College with degrees in Native American Studies and Studio Art. She went on to receive her M.F.A. from Yale University in Sculpture. Tsouhlarakis has participated in various art residencies including Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Yaddo and was the Andrew W. Mellon Artist-in-Residence at Colorado College for the 2019-2020 academic year.
Tsouhlarakis’s work has been part of national and international exhibitions at venues such as NEON Foundation in Athens, Greece; White Frame in Basel, Switzerland; Rush Arts in New York; the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto; the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art; the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts; the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art; the National Museum of the American Indian; the National Portrait Gallery; and a recent solo exhibition at MCA Denver.
She is a Creative Capital Award recipient for 2021. Other awards include fellowships from the Harpo Foundation, the Eiteljorg Museum, the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation, and most recently, the Louis Comfort Tiffany Award. Tsouhlarakisis an Assistant Professor in the Art and Art History Department at theUniversity of Colorado Boulder. She is Greek, Creek, and an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation.