Annieo Klaas grew up in Dakar, Senegal. She holds a PharmD from Auburn University, a BFA from Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, Washington, and works as a Nuclear Pharmacist for Siemens Healthineers.
Klaas’s work has been exhibited in both galleries and museums, including the Mobile Museum of Art (Mobile, AL), the LaGrange Art Museum (LaGrange, GA), the Alabama Contemporary Art Center (Mobile, AL), Field Projects Gallery (New York, NY), Warnes Contemporary (New York, NY), Sophiella Gallery (Mobile, AL), K Space Contemporary (Corpus Christi, TX), and the Intersect Arts Center (St Louis, MO). Her most recent solo exhibition was held at the Mobile Arts Council (Mobile, AL), and she has one coming up at Cerbera Gallery (St Louis, MO) in the summer of 2026.
Her work has been featured in several publications, including New American Paintings (South Issue 178), Studio Visit Magazine, and the Artist’s Magazine.
Klaas’s paintings operate within the quiet pulse of magical realism, where the ordinary becomes enchanted. Her most recent motif—a sunlit window softened by gauzy curtains—grounds the viewer in a familiar domestic setting, yet the scenes shimmer with an otherworldly quality. Radiant colors bleed across surfaces, and the layering of light, shadow, and foliage suggests a reality subtly heightened, vibrating just beyond the logical. Like the literary tradition of magical realism, Klaas doesn’t abandon the real; instead, she infuses it with wonder, illuminating the poetic strangeness that lives in plain sight. Her treatment of light is less about optics than emotion—rendered with a dreamlike clarity that feels both tender and uncanny. These are not mere studies of windows; they are thresholds, inviting the viewer to dwell in the thin space between presence and imagination.
Annieo Klaas - Studio
Solo Exhibitions:
2024 “When the Sky Looks In” (Curated by Lucy Gafford), Mobile Arts Council, Mobile, AL
2016 "Vignettes Weekender" (Curated by Sierra Stinson and Serrah Russel), Vignettes Gallery, Seattle, WA
2015 "What You Scoop Up Of Me" (Curated by Weston Jandacka), Glass Box Gallery, Seattle, WA
2014 "Conversations" (Curated by Makena Gadient), Cornish College of the Arts, Closet Gallery, Seattle, WA
Group Exhibitions:
2025 “Resonance”, (Curated by Victoria J Fry), Werner Contemporary, Brooklyn, NY
“Dolce Far Niente” (Curated by Vittoria Beltrame), MyMA, New York, NY
“Just the House of a Body” (Curated by Jacob Rhodes), Field Projects Gallery, New York, NY
“Third Coast Biennial” (Curated by Leandra Urrutia), K Space Contemporary, Corpus Christi, TX
“Government Plaza Gallery: A CELEBRATION, Juried Exhibition” by the Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL
2024 “NEU DAWN 7” (curated by Courtney Matthews), Knucklebones Elixir Co, Mobile, AL
“Made in Alabama” Alabama Visual Artists Network Invitational Exhibition, Samford University Art Gallery, Birmingham, AL
“Fifth Lagrange Southeast Regional” (Juried by Hannah Israel), LaGrange Art Museum, LaGrange, GA
2023 “NEU DAWN 6” (Curated by Courtney Matthews), Alabama Contemporary Art Center, Mobile, AL
2022 “Atmospheric Perspective” (Curated by Sarah Bernhardt), Intersect Arts Center, St Louis, MO
2018 "Behaving Differently: (Curated by Joshua Thompson and Elizabeth Arzani), Plank Gallery, Seattle, WA
2017 "Utopia Neighborhood Club" Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Seattle, WA
"Folding Reverberation :: Unfolded Resonance" (Curated by Chelsea Rodino), Generations, Seattle, WA
2015 "2015 Hutch Exhibition" (Curated by Bonnie Biggs), Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA
"Painted Full of Tongues" (Performance directed by Kendra Lee), Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle, WA
“Sound@Sunset” (Curated by Greg Miller), Seattle, WA
"Delicate Knives" (Curated by Rob Kellum), Evolve Apartments, Seattle, WA
"K-Ham Open Studios" (Curated by Jade Highleyman), Seattle, WA
2014 "This is for ___ (you)” Fremont Sunday Market, 400N 34th St and Cornish College of the Arts, Notions Building
"Art Department 2014 Merit Awards Exhibition" (Juried Exhibition), Cornish College of the Arts, Main Gallery, Seattle, WA
2013 "Art Department 2013 Merit Awards Exhibition" (Juried Exhibition), Cornish College of the Arts, Main Gallery, Seattle, WA
"Open CallI" Curated by Samantha Whalen, Cornish College of the Arts, Main Gallery, 1000 Lenora St, Seattle, WA