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.

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 Museum of Modern Art 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 is found on LDS.org in the children’s section.

Annie’s work typically revolves around themes from search for redemption in despair, to childlike wonder and whimsy- a 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’. This film celebrates universal healing in the Savior and the universal rise to heavenly paradise.

Photography allows Poon the freedom to work alone without stress, expectation, deadlines, or deliveries. She takes multiple portraits a day of the people she sees on the streets, in newsstands, food trucks, and in the stores in her neighborhood. She particularly enjoys photographing the cashiers at her local Whole Foods. On May 7th, a cashier let slip that Annie is Whole Foods Famous!

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

Annie has worked with (in no particular order) The Lower Eastside Printshop, Covenant, The Museum of Modern, Deseret book, the Maxwell Institute, The Book of Mormon Art Catalog, the BYU Museum, MIT, Pfizer, Cornell University, The New Museum, The Museum of Art and Design, The Brooklyn Museum, The Brooklyn Academy of Music, The Harold B. Lee Archives, The Friend, The Center for LDS Art, Nickelodeon, Artful, PBS, CBS, The National Gallery, The Church History Museum, Meyer Gallery, Writ and Vision, Fountain House Gallery, UMOCA, and the Springville Museum of Art.

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

Annie has had six solo shows and is handicapped.