Anna Torma

Torma specializes in large-scale hand embroideries, and her work draws upon multiple artistic and textile techniques, including appliqué, felting, photo transfer, collage, and quilting.{{Cite web|url=http://art-history.concordia.ca/eea/artists/torma.html|title=Anna Torma|website=Concordia University Art History|access-date=16 March 2019}}{{Cite web|url=https://eskerfoundation.com/exhibition/annatorma/|title="Anna Torma: Book of Abandoned Details"|date=2018|website=Esker Foundation|access-date=16 March 2019}} She appropriates visual imagery from multiple sources, including anatomical drawings, folk art, and her children's drawings.{{Cite web|url=http://www.gallerieswest.ca/magazine/stories/fantastical-stitchery/|title="Fantastical Stitchery"|last=Robinson|first=Lissa|date=11 June 2018|website=Galleries West|access-date=16 March 2019}} She combines traditional methods of the Hungarian textile tradition with the radical reclamation of craft art forms from the avant-garde feminist movements of the 1960s and 1970s.{{Cite web|url=https://eskerfoundation.com/exhibition/annatorma/|title=Anna Torma: Book of Abandoned Details - Esker Foundation {{!}} Contemporary Art Gallery, Calgary|website=Esker Foundation {{!}} Contemporary Art Gallery, Calgary|language=en|access-date=2020-03-07}}

Torma was born in 1952 in Tarnaörs, Hungary. She learned to embroider from her mother and grandmothers and studied textile art and design at the Hungarian Academy of Applied Arts (1974-1979). She received a degree in Textile Art and Design from the Hungarian University of Applied Arts, Budapest, Hungary in 1979.{{cite web |title=Anna Torma: Permanent Danger |url=https://textilemuseum.ca/event/anna-torma-permanent-danger |website=textilemuseum.ca |publisher=Textile Museum, Toronto |access-date=19 September 2022}} She immigrated to Canada in 1988.{{Cite web|url=https://www.annatorma.com/info|title=Info|last=|first=|date=|website=Anna Torma|language=en|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200227230009/https://www.annatorma.com/info |archive-date=2020-02-27 |access-date=2020-02-27}} Torma was a 2007 Artist-in-Residence at the McColl Center for Art + Innovation in Charlotte, NC.[https://mccollcenter.org/artists-in-residence/ 20 years of Artists-In-Residence] McColl Center

Torma has exhibited throughout Canada, the United States, and Europe, and her work is held by the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, the New Brunswick Art Bank, the Museum of Arts and Design, the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Mint Museum of Craft and Design, Owens Art Gallery, and the New Brunswick Museum. Anna Torma: Permanent Danger, a major solo exhibition was organized by the Textile Museum of Canada in 2020.{{Cite web |date=2022-03-29 |title=Anna Torma: Permanent Danger |url=https://textilemuseum.ca/event/anna-torma-permanent-danger/ |website=Owens Art Gallery}} This exhibition travelled to the Art Gallery of Guelph (2021),{{Cite web |title=Anna Torma: Permanent Danger |url=https://artgalleryofguelph.ca/exhibitions-detail/anna-torma-permanent-danger/ |access-date=2022-03-29 |website=Art Gallery of Guelph |language=en-US}} and the Owens Art Gallery, Mount Allison University in Sackville, NB (2021).{{Cite web |title=Anna Torma: Permanent Danger – Owens Art Gallery |url=https://owensartgallery.com/exhibition/anna-torma-permanent-danger/ |access-date=2022-03-29 |language=en-US}}

In 2008, Anna Torma won the Strathbutler Award from the Sheila Hugh Mackay Foundation. In 2014 she received the Lieutenant-Governor's Award for High Achievement in the Visual Arts. She was the 2020 laureate of the Saidye Bronfman Award (Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts) for excellence in the fine crafts.{{cite web |title=Saidye Bronfman Award: Anna Torma Visual Artist 2020 |url=https://saidyebronfmanaward.ca/anna-torma |website=Canada Council for the Arts |access-date=20 February 2020}} Anna Torma is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.{{Cite web |last=websolutions.ca |title=Anna Torma {{!}} Artists {{!}} collectionArtNB |url=https://www.collectionartnb.ca/en/artists/anna-torma |access-date=2022-03-29 |website=www.collectionartnb.ca}}

• Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, NS{{Cite web |title=Anna Torma {{!}} Art Gallery of Alberta |url=https://www.youraga.ca/bio/anna-torma |access-date=2023-03-30 |website=www.youraga.ca}}
• Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, NB
• Mint Museum of Craft and Design, Charlotte, NC{{Cite web |title=Textile Museum of Canada Announces Major Solo Exhibition of works by Anna Torma, Winner of a 2020 Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts |url=https://textilemuseum.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/AnnaTorma_Press-Release_March.pdf |url-status= |website=Textile Museum of Canada}}
• Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery, Halifax, NS
• Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY
• New Brunswick Art Bank, Fredericton, NB
• Owens Art Gallery, Sackville, NB{{Cite web |title=A-Z of Collection – Owens Art Gallery |url=https://owensartgallery.com/collection/a-z-of-collection/ |access-date=2023-03-30 |language=en-US}}

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• Koval, Anne; Madill, Shirley (2007), Anna Torma: Needleworks, Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery.
• Falvey, Emily; Koval, Anne; Quinton, Sarah, (2021), Anna Torma: Permanent Danger, Textile Museum of Canada. ISBN 9780980908893.

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