Anna Ludwig is a young figurative painter whose subject matter ranges from the socio-political to the supernatural. A graduate of Enloe, a public high school in Raleigh, North Carolina, Anna was known for photorealistic portraits of her contemporaries. While still in high school she began working on commissioned portraits. She received national recognition in 1999 and 2000 from the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards and her paintings were exhibited in the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C. and in galleries in New York. Eleven of her paintings and drawings were exhibited at a group show at the North Carolina Museum of Art from June through September, 2000.

In the VES department at Harvard, where Anna received an A.B. in studio art while studying with Nancy Mitchnick and Annette Lemieux, Anna's subject matter responded to global concerns. Her exhibition, High/Low was held at Lee Hansley Gallery, in Raleigh, North Carolina, in the summer of 2003. While in college, Anna opened a studio each summer and worked full-time on painting. Her 2004 senior thesis exhibition, Channeling, which examined the phenomenon of and belief in hauntings and spirits, was featured in Uneasy, a group thesis show, at the Carpenter Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

After moving to Oakland, California, Anna began studying the Brazilian martial art of capoeira at the Capoeira Mandinga Academy with Mestre Marcelo. In the fall of 2008, Anna began pursuing her MFA in painting as a graduate student at California College of Arts in San Francisco, where she also works as a teaching assistant for undergraduate art classes. She loves working with kids, teaching drawing, painting, mixed media, and sculpture. Anna is a regular contributor to the annual holiday show held at the Lee Hansley Gallery.