About

The artistic studio practice of American artist Anna Lyle (b. 1992, Birmingham, Alabama) lives in the realm of realism in conjunction with abstraction through mark-making. Anna received her Bachelor of Architecture from Mississippi State University in 2015 and her Master of Fine Arts degree from Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 2023.

While having a past professional life as an architectural designer, Lyle credits one oil-painting class while in architecture school as adequate art education, until very recently. After working in an office environment for five years, Lyle exited the architectural industry in her late 20’s to pursue a career in painting and drawing.

Lyle’s work is known for a structured and narrative aesthetic grounded in traditional and representational painting and drawing. Through her painting and two-dimensional mixed media work, Anna explores the physical, psychological, and social context of her body, how she and others perceive her body, and, eventually, how she perceives others in their perceptions of her. This thought process is rooted in larger external systems, such as sexism and hyper-religiosity, and how they affect our perceptions of our bodies. Lyle’s conceptual inspiration draws on her place and purpose in the world outside of her experiences and memories in the Southern Baptist Christian religion in which she grew up, and in the years since leaving.

Lyle has exhibited work in galleries all across the United States - including New York, California, Florida, Alabama, and Minnesota - with works in private collections in the United States, Canada, and Germany. She currently lives and works in Birmingham, AL.