Anne Ryan

Anne Ryan is Curator of Australian Art at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, where she has responsibility for the collection of Australian prints, drawings and watercolours. She studied at the Universities of Sydney and New South Wales, and was the Sarah and William Holmes Scholar in the Departments of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum in 2001-02.

Anne has organised a number of exhibitions and publications on historical and contemporary Australian art and artists. Her interests include modern and contemporary Australian painting, drawing and printmaking, with a particular interest in women artists. At the Art Gallery of NSW she has curated the Dobell Australian Drawing Biennial exhibitions Drawing Out (2014), Close to Home (2016) and Real Worlds (2020) and has curated the annual Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prizes eight times since 2015.