About

I am an interdisciplinary artist working across painting, weaving, installation, and sculpture. Over the past eighteen years, weaving has become central to my practice. Through tapestries and related works, I explore how visual and textual languages intersect, and how meaning emerges through structure, repetition, and material translation.

Drawing from the density of the city environment, I work with fragmented text, layered imagery, and vernacular forms. Lettering moves fluidly through my practice, from found sources to custom typefaces that appear in paintings, handweavings, and digital collages translated into woven form. By sampling, layering, and reconfiguring materials, I bring handmade processes into conversation with digital structures, inviting viewers to consider how we navigate and make sense of complex visual-textual environments.

Born in the North of Germany and raised in Hamburg, I received my MFA in Painting from the University of Pennsylvania. Recent solo and two-person exhibitions include 1014 (NYC), Kunsthalle Dessau (Dessau, Germany), Yeh Art Gallery, St. John’s University (NYC), Galerie im Marstall (Ahrensburg, Germany), Raft of Sanity (Buffalo), PS122 Gallery (NYC), InLiquid Gallery (Philadelphia), Project:ARTspace (NYC), Kang Contemporary (Berlin), and New York Public Library (NYC). My work has appeared in group shows at venues including the Queens Museum, Flux Factory, The Drawing Center, Kentler International Drawing Space, and Montreal Centre for Contemporary Textiles. I have been the recipient of grants and residencies, including a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, an Open Sessions Residency at The Drawing Center, a grant from the ArsVersa Kunst-Stiftung, and Innovative Kunstprojekte, BBK.

Resume (PDF)

Wave Hello!
Catalog essay by Stefan Römer for Sprach/Spiel exhibition

Catalog and essay (PDF)

Zwischen den Zeilen
Catalog essay by Sibylle Badstübner-Gröger for Zwischen den Zeilen exhibition

Catalog and essay (PDF)

Das All in unseren Augen
Exhibition review of Zwischen den Zeilen by Kai Agthe, Mitteldeutsche Zeitung

Review (PDF)

Identity as Palimpsest
Article by Gregory Blair, Arts

Article (PDF)

Restless Threads: The Tapestries of Annette Cords
Essay by Jill Conner, Riot Material

Essay (PDF)

Les Gommes, Becky Brown and Annette Cords at PS122
Exhibition review by Axel Bishop, Two Coates of Paint

Review (PDF)

Dream-Restart-Experience at PS122 Gallery
Interview & conversation with Etty Yaniv,  Art Spiel

Interview (PDF)

Palimpsests of Identities: Material Voices at InLiquid Gallery
Exhibition essay by Gregory Blair

Essay (PDF)

CraftNOW Symposium: Environmental Effects
Presentation with Rachel Zimmerman & G. Ferrel Kellum at 1:54

YouTube Recording

Medium Essay: Saturday—A Studio Visit
Jill Conner

Essay (PDF)

Shape/Shifters—Gestures in Form
Essay by Jill Conner for Shape/Shifters exhibition

Common Threads
Essay by Annette Cords

Catalog and essays (PDF)

Fragment and Thread
Catalog essay by Claus Mewes for Breaking the Grid exhibition

Catalog and essay (PDF)

Arte Fuse Review:
Cognition-Stroll by Annette Cords and Becky Brown at Project: ARTspace

Jonathan Goodman

Cognition-Stroll Review (PDF)

Cognition-Stroll
Essay by Tatiana Istomina for Cognition-Stroll exhibition

Booklet and essay (PDF)

Urban Tapestries, Urban Knowledge
Essay by Jonathan Goodman

Book and essay (PDF)

All That’s Solid Melts into Air
Catalog essay by Phoebe Hoban for Cross-Coupling exhibition

Catalog and essay (PDF)

Sideways

Announcement & NYPL Link

Tandem Mass

Announcement & NYPL Link

Overlapping Codes: Becky Brown and Annette Cords Studio Visit

The Bottom Line / The Drawing Center Blog

Open Sessions / The Drawing Center

The Drawing Center website