Ann Purcell was born in Washington D.C. in 1941. She is an artist living and working in Washington, D.C. and New York, New York.
MA of Multicultural Studies, New York University; New York, NY (1995)
BA of Art-Painting, Corcoran School of Art and George Washington University; Washington, D.C. (1973)
Independent Study, San Miguel de Allende; Mexico (1969-71)
Joan Mitchell Foundation grant (2014)
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant Award (1989, 2018)
Purcell participated in a collaborative print project at Normal Editions Workshop during a Visiting Artist Seminar short-term residency in the School of Art at Illinois State University in 1987.