Anna Fangan Xu is a designer and artist based in New York City.

 

Anna currently work as a UX/UI Designer at Barclays Investment Bank, as well as a Multimedia Design Consultant at the award-winning design studio Emerson Wajdowicz Studios. She also teaches at Pratt Institute, Communications Design, M.F.A. and B.F.A. programs.

 

Before going to graduate school studying design, Anna was trained as an electric engineer in the direction of TV & Broadcasting engineering. She practiced information technologies,

communication systems, and programming languages. The rigorous scientific and technical training influenced her as a designer and artist. 

 

As an artist, Anna is interested in digital art, conceptual art and public art. She has been creating participatory public artwork in NYC, such as Silence Booth and Look Back to the Future, as well as an experimental online platform, Promise: Now and Forever.

 

In the year of the outbreak of COVID19 pandemic, Anna co-founded non-profit organization N95forNYC/Art in Touch. Upon the outbreak in NYC, N95forNYC responded quickly, sourced and delivered large number of N95 masks, surgical masks, and protective coveralls to the hands of medical workers from 50+ hospitals all over the NYC.

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Welcome to contact at xufangan@hotmail.com for more information or collaboration.