Annie Poon is a multimedia artist living in New York City. She hails from New Canaan, Connecticut. Annie moved to NYC after witnessing Jackson Pollock’s monumental Autumn Rhythm at the Museum of Modern art on a high school field trip. Subsequently, she studied drawing and painting at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan and…. is now in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art! (it’s true)

While in college, Annie developed her unique style of stop-motion animation using paper cut-outs and sharpies. Her acclaimed short ‘Runaway Bathtub’ was collected by the MoMA where it has shown on multiple occasions and garnered the prestigious audience choice award. Her short ‘The Shiny Bicycle’ includes a voice-over by President Thomas S. Monson and can be found on LDS.org in the children’s section.

Annie’s work typically revolves around themes from search for redemption in despair to wonder and play. This wide gamut which reflects her diagnosis of bipolar and Schizoaffective at the age of 26. She was the subject of a documentary on ‘Artful’ which investigates the creation of her animation ‘The Castle’. The film celebrates universal healing of the Savior and the rise to paradise.

Annie’s current passion involves taking environmental portraits on the the streets of New York. Rather than conduct staged photo shoots, she simply carries her camera on all her daily errands. Annie is passionate about documenting her community. She forms spontaneous, candid, and organic micro-relationships with the people she sees on the streets, in newsstands, food trucks, at Target, and in grocery stores. She particularly enjoys photographing the employees of her local Whole Foods. On May 7th, a cashier let slip that Annie is Whole Foods Famous!

Her gift to all these neighbors is a business card that says, ‘You Make New York Awesome.’

Annie works with Brigham Young University and the Church to spread her message of faith through her inspiring books and short films. This material is made available to students to enhance their gospel learning.

Annie has gotten to work with The Museum of Modern Art, Fountain House Gallery, The Harold B. Lee Archives, The National Gallery, the BYU Museum, Alma Gallery, The Compass Gallery, Certain Women, The Lower Eastside Printshop, Printed Matter, Covenant, Deseret book, the Maxwell Institute, The Book of Mormon Art Catalog, MIT, Pfizer, Cornell University, The New Museum, The Museum of Art and Design, The Brooklyn Museum, The Brooklyn Academy of Music, The Friend, The Center for LDS Art, Nickelodeon, Artful, PBS, CBS, The Church History Museum, Meyer Gallery, Writ and Vision, UMOCA, and the Springville Museum of Art.

Annie’s work is collected by the Harold B. Lee Archives, The Museum of Modern Art, Heather and Bradford Pack, The Glen and Marcia Nelson Collection, The BYU MoA, The Springville Museum of Art, The Church History Museum, The Chris and Janae Baird Collection, and The Richard and Claudia Bushman Collection.

The BYU Archives preserves her 25 years of sketchbooks and ephemera.

Annie has had six solo shows and is represented by Fountain House Gallery in Hell’s Kitchen.