Anna Hostvedt lives and works in New York. She attended Copper Union in New York City. She has exhibited widely in the U.S. and is represented by the Tibor De Nagy Gallery in New York City. A review by Ken Johnson in the New York TImes of her first solo show there states; "Ms Hostvedt, who was born in 1971 and is having her first solo exhibition, is given to gently ironic understatement. She has created a series of modest, realistic pictures of parking lots (empty as well as occupied), overpasses and unkempt fields around a Long Island commuter train station. Painted with small brushes in muted, almost gray colors, mostly in 8- by 12-inch panels, her works have none of the passionate turbulence of Campbell’s paintings. But their tender attention to mundane facts is affecting, and they exude Hopperesqe feelings of loneliness, grief and wonder.