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Anne Collier's (born Los Angeles, 1970) is a New York-based artist whose work employs appropriation, drawing specifically on the tradition of appropriation art and "re-photography." Collier's photographs depict iconic film posters, album covers, magazine pages and photographic test plates, together forming a subjective lexicon of popular imagery, alternately suggesting biographical history and a more widespread nostalgic attraction to found material.

Collier's first solo show in a UK public gallery was at the Open Eye in 2007. Selected international group exhibitions include Der Droste Effekt, Esther Schipper, Berlin (2007); Good Vibrations - Le arti visive e il Rock, SMS Contemporanea, Siena (2006); and Land of the Free, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco (2004). Over the past decade, Collier has created a body of works that investigate the role of popular imagery in contemporary culture. Images embedded in a world of mass production are re-invented, physically manipulated and arranged before the camera. Issues of gender and power relations are brought to the fore as she questions who is in control.

London gallery-goers can see Anne Collier's work at the Dispersion exhibition currently showing at ICA. Read our listing for more info.

Anne Collier
Folded Madonna Poster (Steven Meisel), 2007
C-print
Courtesy the Artist and Corvi-Mora, London