Anna Rotty lives on Tiwa Pueblo land in Albuquerque where she is an MFA candidate and instructor of photography at the University of New Mexico. Anna investigates water, light and infrastructure, informing her understanding of orientation and place. Her work was recently shortlisted for the Frankenthaler Climate Art Award and she has been published by Southwest Contemporary, Humble Arts Foundation, and Lenscratch, where she earned 3rd place in the Student Portfolio Prize. Anna recently exhibited her first solo show in New Mexico at Strata Gallery Santa Fe and has participated in group exhibitions at Form & Concept, the University of New Mexico Art Museum, San Francisco Camerawork, Incline Gallery, and Book & Job Gallery in San Francisco. Anna is part of Collective Constructs, a collaborative group of artists and art historians responding with public visual scholarship to works from the permanent collection at the UNM Art Museum.