Anna Torma was born in Tarnaors, Hungary, in 1952. She graduated from the Department of Textile Art and Design at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts. She is part of a post-feminist movement in the tradition of Judy Chicago, which has done much to redefine the practices usually associated with women in Western culture. 

 

Anna Torma includes in her artistic practice elements of everyday life considered in the past to be essentially the domain of women - fabrics, embroidery. She creates a marvellous universe, inspired by myths and populated by creatures both real and imaginary. Her work includes references to the Garden of Eden.

 

Anna Torma is the winner of the prestigious 2020 Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts - Saidye Bronfman Award. She is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, recipient of the New Brunswick Lieutenant-Governor's Award for Excellence in the Visual Arts and the Strathbutler Award from the Sheila Hugh Mackay Foundation. For over 40 years, Anna Torma has exhibited her work in Canada and abroad, and some of it is held in public and private collections around the world.

 

In 2018, Calgary's Esker Foundation presented a major exhibition of the artist's work entitled Anna Thorma: Book of Abandoned Details. That same year, her work was featured in the exhibition Fait Main/Handmade, at the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec. 

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