Besides the powerful welded and painted steel sculpture for which she is best known, ANN SPERRY has made artists books, furniture, and designed opera and ballet sets and costumes for the Aspen Music Festival and the Chicago Lyric Opera Studio. She has also done a number of public art commissions, typically involving responses to contextual and environmental issues specific to the site. Among these have been the 110-foot long “Garden of Delights”, an A.R.E.A. commission now permanently installed at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, a 334-foot long fence that was a competition winner of the Seattle Arts Commission Percent for Art Program, a 32-foot high sculpture for the University of Rhode Island School of Business Administration and "Aspen Galaxy" for the Aspen Center for Physics.  She has been featured in "WELDED!" the first comprehensive exhibit of welded steel sculpture at the Neuberger Museum at SUNY Purchase, NY and "Figuring the Modern Amazon" at the New Museum, New York.  Her site-specific "Galactic Garden" has traveled to the Honen-in Temple in Kyoto, the Hudson River Museum, Yonkers (NY), La Foce in Tuscany and to Colorado, Massachusetts, France and Israel.   "30 Works/30 Years", a survey of her work, took place at the Hebrew Union College Museum, New York City.  "Hiroshima, Mon Amour", her artist book, is in the collections of the Getty Center, the Library of Congress, the Spencer Collection of the New York Public Library and the Biblioteque Nationale in Paris. This past summer she designed the sets and costumes for a production of Aaron Copland's "The Tender Land" at the International Vocal Arts Institute in Tel Aviv.

A recent series, "MY PIANO, the Fragmentation of Memory", a group of sculptures made from the piano her father gave her for her fourth birthday has been shown at the Kraushaar Galleries in New York and the David Floria Gallery in Aspen(CO), and at the Miami University Art Museum in Oxford, Ohio.

Born in the Bronx, New York, she attended the High School of Music & Art and graduated from Sarah Lawrence College, where she studied with Theodore Roszak and William Rubin.  Her work is in the collection of the Storm King Art Center, the Neuberger, Everson and Tel Aviv Museums, the Skirball Museums in Cincinnati and Los Angeles, the Rose Art Museum of Brandeis University, among others.  Sperry has taught and lectured widely, including the Boston Museum of Fine Arts School, Harvard, Yale, the Studio School in New York City, the Universities of Vermont and Oregon, San Jose State and Sonoma State in California, The Anderson Ranch Art Center in Colorado and in Israel, France, Italy and Japan.

Among her public service activities, Ann Sperry has been the New York Editor of Helicon Nine Magazine: a Journal of Women’s Arts & Letters, served on the College Art Association’s Board Committee on the Status of Women in the Arts and the SculptureCenter Board, and is currently on the Board of Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts and the Services to Artists Committee of the College Art Association.

Ann Sperry lives and works in New York City.