Anna Killander was born in Washington, DC on July 16 1975.  She grew up in 
the Netherlands and Washington under the influence of her mother’s passion 
for art, history, culture, and design.  During Anna’s teen years, her mother 
encouraged her daughter’s artistic expression and enlisted the help of a 
local artist who taught Anna how to “see.” Anna continued her love for art 
in her studies at Columbia where she majored in art history.  Her sense of 
color and shape are directly informed by her study of Renaissance and Baroque 
art. 

After college, she lived in Venice and worked at the Peggy Guggenheim 
Collection.  This was particularly visually stimulating for Anna as she was 
able to study the works found at the Accademia and the Guggenheim in such 
proximity.  Venice allowed her to further explore connections between works 
of different eras and to begin to articulate her own specific visual language.  
During this time she worked in watercolor, vigorously developing her sense of 
color and line.

After returning to New York, Anna taught studio art to children of ages ranging 
from 2 to 13.  In addition to being inspired by the lack of predictability inherent 
in children, she found the three years of teaching a good way to revisit some of 
the fundamental principles making art.  She began to incorporate her high school 
interest in science into her work at this time.  

Anna lives and works in Brooklyn where she investigates the relationship between 
microscopic and macroscopic life forms.  She is particularly interested in 
expressing energy – the energy that makes up all things in our world - through 
shape and color.  She has used varying styles to manifest the micro and macro 
energies in her work.  From painting on a large scale with her bare fingers to a 
much smaller, detail intensive manner with a brush, Anna’s passion for the organic 
world is evident and her keen interest in color has remained a constant.

In 2004, Anna and her husband, Tim Harrington, formed a textile design company, 
Deadly Squire.  Anna has continued her investigation into living organisms through 
color and form in her fabric designs.  She has also created a baby, Benjamin, who 
is an ongoing scientific experiment.