Anne Turyn

Anne Turyn (born 1954) is an American photographer. Her work is included in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. She is also an Adjunct Professor at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York.

Turyn graduated from Antioch College in 1976 with a BFA in art. She moved to Buffalo, New York and from there established Top Stories,a prose periodical, while participating in Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center and enrolled at the University at Buffalo. Her first publication of Top Stories, was printed by Hard Press, and sold for one dollar. Top Stories published art and writings byphotographers and artists such as Kathy Acker, Laurie Anderson, Constance DeJong, Jenny Holzer, Cookie Mueller, Richard Prince. In 1991 City Lights Books published 'Top Top Stories' edited by Turyn. Turyn's book of photographs, 'Missives,' was published in 1986 by Alfred van der Marck editions, with an essay by Andy Grundberg.

In 1982 Turyn's photographs were featured in the window of the New Museum, New York, curated by Robin Dodds. In 1986, Turyn had a one-person exhibition at Art City (Leslie Tonkonow) in New York, as well as at the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston (curated by Linda Cathcart) as well as participated in a group exhibition, titled Remembrances of Things Past, at the Long Beach Museum of Art curated by Connie Fitzsimons. In 1989 Turyn was included in Vanishing Presence, curated by Adam Weinberg at The Walker Art Center, which also traveled. She was included in the seminal exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, Pleasures and Terrors of Domestic Comfort, curated by Peter Galassi in 1991.

In 1995, Turyn collaborated with Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center to present a group exhibition at the Burchfield Penney Art Center titled Alternatives: 20 Years Of Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center. The following year, Turyn was one of 23 alumni whose work was selected to be displayed at the University at Buffalo Art Gallery.

In 2010 Turyn was included in Pictures by Women at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, curated by Roxana Marcoci, Sarah Meister and Eva Respini. In 2010 her work was also included in Between Here and There: Passages in Contemporary Photography curated by Douglas Eklund at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

In 2017, she had a solo exhibit at Southfirst Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, titled Anne Turyn: Top Stories Archive & Selected Flashbulb Memories, 1978-1991 which presented her photographs alongside selections from the Top Stories archive.

Her work is included in the collections of:

• the Whitney Museum of American Art,
• the Metropolitan Museum of Art
• the Museum of Modern Art, New York,
• the Los Angeles County Museum of Art,
• the Denver Art Museum,
• the Center for Creative Photography,
• the George Eastman Museum
• the Portland Art Museum, and
• the Birmingham Museum of Art.