about
artist statement and resume
Anneli Sanaye Henriksson is a cartoonist, printmaker, and textile artist from the California Bay Area whose drawings take an interest in snails, spiders, and smudges—figures associated with dirt and mess, but also the most delicate mark-making.
Born 1991 in Palo Alto, California, she received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2016.
Henriksson has illustrated for a diverse range of clients, including Celine Paris and the Chicago Reader. Her art books and comics have been exhibited nationally at art book fairs like the Los Angeles Art Book Fair and the New York Art Book Fair, and in 2021 she published a comic titled California with Caboose Press.
She is a former member of the Dirt Palace, a feminist artist collective in Providence, Rhode Island.
Upcoming shows include a exhibition of drawings at her hairdresser’s salon in Felton, California. Henriksson currently lives and works in Santa Cruz, California.
anneli sanaye henriksson
Born 1991, Palo Alto, California
Lives and works in Santa Cruz, California
education
2016
Bachelor of Fine Arts, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
selected exhibitions
2025
solo exhibition, Double Happiness, Minnow Arts, Santa Cruz, California
Parkside National Print Exhibition, juried by Nathaniel Russell, Emile H. Mathis Gallery, University of Wisconsin - Parkside, Kenosha, Wisconsin
2024
ABZ2: Artists’ Books, Prints, and Zines, curated by Corkey Sinks, the Beverly and Sam Ross Gallery at Christian Brothers University, Memphis, Tennessee
Cabrillo College 2024, California Conference for the Advancement of Ceramic Arts, Davis, California
2023
Cabrillo College 2023, California Conference for the Advancement of Ceramic Arts, Davis, California
Succulent Sale, Gilroy Center for the Arts, Gilroy, California
Student Exhibition, Cabrillo Gallery, Aptos, California
2019
LtdWear4, curated by Mary Eleanor Wallace, LVL3, Chicago, Illinois
Ruffles, Repair & Ritual: the Fine Art of Fixing, curated by Faythe Levine, Xander Marro and Pippi Zornoza, Wedding Cake House Project, Providence, Rhode Island
Pocket Object, curated by Noel Morical, Family Books, Los Angeles, California
2017
solo exhibition, September 2017, the Storefront Gallery at the Dirt Palace, Providence, Rhode Island
2016
Can You Spit On Someone You Love?, curated by Cathy Hsaio, Good Lil’ Base, Chicago, Illinois
CULTURE, curated by Marcel Alcala, Arend deGruyter-Helfer, Kate Ruggeri, & Lauren Taylor, Roots and Culture, Chicago, Illinois
other
2023 Residency at the Wedding Cake House Project, Providence, Rhode Island
2019 Visting artist in residence, the Oxbow School, Napa, California
2017 West Coast Craft Scholarship Recipient