About
Artist Statement
Anna Charee is a West Michigan based artist working across drawing, painting, mixed media, embroidery, and installation. Her practice explores the interior landscapes that shape human experience: emotional memory, perception, conflict, connection, faith, and the unseen forces that influence how we move through the world.
Charee grew up feeling unable to articulate her interior life through words. Drawing and painting became her first form of authentic communication. Marks, color, line, form, and material gave shape to feelings that could not be easily spoken. Her work is rooted in a sustained curiosity about the emotional blueprint of a person: the experiences, relationships, losses, and acts of care that build a life.
Working primarily with charcoal, paint, and mixed media on Mylar, Charee builds images through an intuitive and responsive process. Forms accumulate, shift, erase, and return. The work holds density and openness, darkness and light, fragility and force. Each piece traces the internal movement of being human, including grief, fear, anger, joy, tenderness, endurance, and transformation.
Abstraction gives viewers space to encounter their own memories and emotional associations. The works do not prescribe a single reading. They invite reflection, recognition, and connection through forms that remain open. Each piece becomes evidence of what cannot be seen on the surface: a record of struggle, healing, and the questions that accompany a life.
For Charee, art is a place of refuge and a practice of taking up space. It is where she returns to herself, faces what is difficult, and gives form to the invisible. Through her work, a mark becomes a voice that cannot be taken away.
Bio
Anna Charee is a West Michigan based visual artist working in drawing, painting, mixed media, embroidery, and installation. She holds an MFA and BFA from Kendall College of Art and Design of Ferris State University.
Charee’s work explores the interior landscapes of human experience through abstraction, mark-making, and layered materials. Her practice considers emotional memory, connection, conflict, faith, and the intangible forces that shape identity. Drawing and painting serve as a form of authentic communication, giving form to experiences that can be difficult to articulate through words.
Her work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions throughout Michigan and beyond, including Anatomy of the Soul and Play at Your Studio Suites in Holland; Process at Balke P&D Gallery in Grand Rapids; Evidence at Bend Gallery in Grand Rapids; Spaces at Drury University in Springfield, Missouri; and the National Wet Paint MFA Biennial at Zhou B Art Center in Chicago. She has also exhibited with UICA, Alluvium Gallery, and Overbrook Gallery. She lives and works in Holland, Michigan.
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ANNA CHAREE HOSKINS
Holland, Michigan
hoskins.anna2024@gmail.com | Instagram: @anna.charee.art
EDUCATION
2020 Master of Fine Arts, Kendall College of Art and Design of Ferris State University, Grand Rapids, Michigan
2015 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Kendall College of Art and Design of Ferris State University, Grand Rapids, Michigan
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2026 Anatomy of the Soul, Your Studio Suites, Holland, Michigan
2025 Play, Your Studio Suites, Holland, Michigan
2022 Process, Balke P&D Gallery, Grand Rapids, Michigan
2020 Evidence, Bend Gallery, Grand Rapids, Michigan
2017 Works on Panel, Go Java Coffee, Grand Rapids, Michigan
2016 Your Beast Is Showing, Spiral Gallery, Grand Rapids, Michigan
2014 Different Observations, JPS Coffee, Holland, Michigan
2013 Works on Panel, Go Java Coffee, Grand Rapids, Michigan
2012 Debut Show, Holland Area Arts Council, Holland, Michigan
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 Grand Opening Group Exhibition, Endcap Studios, Grand Rapids, Michigan
2026 The Speed of Love, Featured Artist, Pillar Church, Holland, Michigan
2025 Advent at Pillar Church, Featured Artist, Holland, Michigan
2024 A Body of Work, Overbrook Gallery, Muskegon, Michigan
2021 Spaces, Drury University, Springfield, Missouri
2021 Print/Drawing Show, Alluvium Gallery, Grand Rapids, Michigan
2019 MEGA, Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids, Michigan
2018 MEGA, Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids, Michigan
2018 Golden Apple Showcase, Kendall College of Art and Design, Grand Rapids, Michigan
2018 The Group Show, Alluvium Gallery, Grand Rapids, Michigan
2017 National Wet Paint MFA Biennial, Zhou B Art Center, Chicago, Illinois
2017 To Mark, Alluvium Gallery, Grand Rapids, Michigan
2016 Collateral Chaos, Two-Person Exhibition, Spiral Gallery, Grand Rapids, Michigan
2014 Impact, Kendall College of Art and Design, Grand Rapids, Michigan
2014 Women Everywhere Expo, DoubleTree Hotel, Holland, Michigan
2014 Girls Night Out, Lakeshore Family Chiropractic, Holland, Michigan
2013 Abstract Landscapes, Downtown Grand Rapids Inc., Grand Rapids, Michigan
2013 Dead Weight, Art Downtown, Grand Rapids, Michigan
2013 Impact, Kendall College of Art and Design, Grand Rapids, Michigan
2012 Open House, Kendall College of Art and Design, Grand Rapids, Michigan
SELECTED ARTWORK PLACEMENTS
2026 Artwork Display, HR Collaborative Services, Grand Rapids, Michigan
HONORS AND AWARDS
2020 Cover Artist, Diáfano Magazine, Spain
2018 Scholarship Recipient, Golden Apple Artists Residency, Maine
2012–2015 Member, National Society of Collegiate Scholars
2011–2015 President's List, Kendall College of Art and Design of Ferris State University
2011–2015 Tonya Dams Memorial Scholarship, Ferris State University
2011–2015 Academic Scholarship, Ferris State University
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Present Independent Artist and Private/Group Art Instructor, Holland, Michigan
2022 Workshop Leader, Muse Gallery, Grand Rapids, Michigan
2017–2020 Co-Curator, Alluvium Gallery, Grand Rapids, Michigan
2021 Guest Speaker, Arts Class, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan
2014–2015 Art Teacher and Artist's Assistant, Carolyn Stich Studio, Holland, Michigan