Anna Schuleit

Anna Schuleit Haber (born 1974) is a German-American visual artist. Throughout her career, Schuleit Haber's work has focused on marginalized communities.

Biography Anna Schuleit Haber attended high school at Northfield Mount Hermon School before studying painting and art history at the Rhode Island School of Design where she received her B.F.A. in 1998, and her M.A. in creative writing / book arts at Dartmouth College in 2005. In 2013, Schuleit Haber married composer Yotam Haber.

Work Trained as a painter, Schuleit Haber's works range from museum installations made with paint, to large-scale projects in forests, on uninhabited islands, and in psychiatric institutions, using extensive sound systems, live sod, thousands of flowers, mirrors, antique telephones, bodies of water, and neuroscience technologies. Her work has been featured in exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) Boston, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston; the University Museum of Contemporary Art; Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine; the Brattleboro Museum; The Matzo Files, NYC; the Mousonturm, Frankfurt, Germany; and the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University, among others. Her works are included in private collections throughout the U.S., Europe, Asia, and Australia, as well as in the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, and the Vehbi Koç Foundation at ARTER, Istanbul, Turkey.

She has been a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, the RISD European Honors Program in Rome, the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, Blue Mountain Center, the Banff Centre, and the Bogliasco Foundation in Italy. In 2006, Schuleit Haber was named a MacArthur Fellow The project had written contributions by Neil Gaiman, Kurt Vonnegut, Jeff Sharlet, Peter Gizzi, George Saunders and Adrian Nicole LeBlanc. Studio 360's Kurt Andersen reviewed the project and described it as "brilliant". The print edition reached 15,000, and the project received two New England Newspaper & Press Association awards. "If newspapers are about literacy, then this series is the ultimate." the judges wrote.

In 2019–20, she worked on "Ser Du Mig", a collaboration on the theme of urban poverty with the Danish group 'CoreAct' led by performance artists Anika Barkan and Helene Kvint, and playwright Abelone Koppel, which premiered at Teater Grob, Copenhagen, during the pandemic. Other works appeared in Agni, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Believer, The Massachusetts Review, and in the journal of the Cleveland Urban Design Center. From 2020 through 2022, Schuleit Haber created a commissioned work, "The Magic Years", for a private collection in Winter Park, Florida, inspired by the writings of the child psychoanalyst Selma Fraiberg. Schuleit Haber's current works include a multi-year, collaborative project about grief and forests for which she was awarded a 2023 Summer fellowship at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute.