Annie Poon (b.1977) is a multimedia artist living in New York City. She hails from New Canaan, Connecticut. Annie moved to Manhattan after witnessing Jackson Pollock’s monumental Autumn Rhythm at the Museum of Modern art on a high school field trip.

She and her husband Kah Leong are an artist couple. They have resided in a tiny New York apartment for the past 25 years. Somehow, they own a dishwasher.

Annie studied drawing and painting but supposedly retired from the world of fine art on February 1st to pursue illustration full time. Her doctor suggested that she develop a hobby. Poon had a Sony A7 from a filmmaking grant by the Center for Latter-day Saint Art, and hit the streets on Valentine’s day 14 days later. She now keeps a visual diary of her beloved 34th Street community.

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 her cashiers at the local Whole Foods. On May 7th, one cashier let slip that the employees are onto her. 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) Covenant, the The Museum of Modern, Deseret book, the Maxwell Institute, The Book of Mormon Art Catalog, the BYU Museum, MIT, Pfizer, Cornell University, 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, 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.