Aneka Ingold’s artwork consists of ambiguous narratives combining flat color and pattern with realism. She specializes in mixed media techniques, combining drawing and painting processes. As an undergraduate student at Grand Valley State University Aneka was the recipient of the Alexander Calder Honors Scholarship and the Advanced Visual Arts Scholarship. She received her MFA at Kendall College of Art and Design where she was awarded the Kendall Scholarship of Merit Award in 2013.
Ingold was recently named the winner of the $50,000 Bennett Prize. The award is designed to propel the careers of women artists working in the figurative realist style. It is the largest art award ever offered solely to women painters. She was also named one of the ten finalists for The 9th Annual Manifest Prize-One award by Manifest Creative Research and Drawing Center, which aims to reward, showcase, celebrate, and document the most exceptional artwork being made today.
In 2016 Ingold was awarded First Place by Juror Carrie Ann Baade, at the Valdosta National All-Media Juried Competition at Dedo Maranville Fine Arts Gallery, Valdosta State University, Georgia. She was the featured artist at the national juried exhibition, Women in Art, at Las Laguna Art Gallery in Laguna Beach, CA. Her work was also selected by Juror Elizabeth McGrath for the Surreal Salon 8, at Baton Rouge Center for Contemporary Art, presented by Juxtapoz magazine. In 2015 Ingold was the Grand Prize Winner at the Vying show during Miami Art Basel, at Viophilia Gallery in Wynwood.
Ingold’s work has been featured in the art publication Art in America. Her work has also been published several times in INDA: International Drawing Annual, presented by Manifest. The Annual is designed to support the recognition, documentation, and publication of excellent, current, and relevant works of drawing from around the world. Her work has also been published in the magazine Poets and Artists, as well as the drawing textbook Drawing Essentials: A Guide to Drawing from Observation, by Deborah Rockman.
Major collections include Steven Bennett and Dr. Elaine Melotti Schmidt Art Collection, San Antoinio, TX; Howard A. and Judith Tullman Art Collection, Chicago, IL; West Michigan Center for Arts and Technology, Grand Rapids, MI; Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI; University of Tampa, Tampa, FL.
Ingold is currently an adjunct professor at the University of Tampa teaching Drawing and at Hillsborough Community College teaching Design.
Ingold was recently named the winner of the $50,000 Bennett Prize. The award is designed to propel the careers of women artists working in the figurative realist style. It is the largest art award ever offered solely to women painters. She was also named one of the ten finalists for The 9th Annual Manifest Prize-One award by Manifest Creative Research and Drawing Center, which aims to reward, showcase, celebrate, and document the most exceptional artwork being made today.
In 2016 Ingold was awarded First Place by Juror Carrie Ann Baade, at the Valdosta National All-Media Juried Competition at Dedo Maranville Fine Arts Gallery, Valdosta State University, Georgia. She was the featured artist at the national juried exhibition, Women in Art, at Las Laguna Art Gallery in Laguna Beach, CA. Her work was also selected by Juror Elizabeth McGrath for the Surreal Salon 8, at Baton Rouge Center for Contemporary Art, presented by Juxtapoz magazine. In 2015 Ingold was the Grand Prize Winner at the Vying show during Miami Art Basel, at Viophilia Gallery in Wynwood.
Ingold’s work has been featured in the art publication Art in America. Her work has also been published several times in INDA: International Drawing Annual, presented by Manifest. The Annual is designed to support the recognition, documentation, and publication of excellent, current, and relevant works of drawing from around the world. Her work has also been published in the magazine Poets and Artists, as well as the drawing textbook Drawing Essentials: A Guide to Drawing from Observation, by Deborah Rockman.
Major collections include Steven Bennett and Dr. Elaine Melotti Schmidt Art Collection, San Antoinio, TX; Howard A. and Judith Tullman Art Collection, Chicago, IL; West Michigan Center for Arts and Technology, Grand Rapids, MI; Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI; University of Tampa, Tampa, FL.
Ingold is currently an adjunct professor at the University of Tampa teaching Drawing and at Hillsborough Community College teaching Design.