About Anne

Anne Bobroff-Hajal’s portraits are held in private collections internationally. Recent portrait commissions include:

  • Chief Maurice Zard, Zard Group of Companies, Nigeria.
  • Granddaughters of Christine and Serge Seguin, Chairman and CEO, 901D/Shock Tech, NY, and SMAC Groupe (Toulon, France).
  • Father and Grandson of Andrew Saunders, Managing Partner of Taconic Tract Developments, New York.
  • Children and Grandchildren of Nancy Ment,. President and CEO, Julia Dyckman Andrus Memorial, New York.
  • General Eduardo Ermita, Executive Secretary (Chief of Staff) to the President of the Philippines, and His Grandson E. J.

Invitational and juried exhibits:

  • THE PORTRAIT, Ely House Center for Contemporary Art, New Haven, Connecticut, 2008. Juror: Daniel Greene.
  • BEAUX ARTS FINALE, Katonah, New York, 2007.
  • One-woman show, Whitney Center, Hamden, Connecticut, 2007.
  • ART TO THE AVENUE, Greenwich, CT, 2007 and 2008
  • WINDOWS TO THE SOUL, Blue Door Arts, Yonkers, New York, 2006.
  • FACES OF WINTER 2006, Bendheim Gallery, Greenwich, CT (Connecticut Society of Portrait Artists)
  • Mamaroneck Artists Guild, Larchmont, NY: SMALL WORKS, 2007; A BOLD STEP, 2006; BE SEATED, 2006; FREE FALL 2006.
  • One-woman event, White Plains City Center, June, 2006, exhibit and talk on portraiture.
  • BEAUX ARTS FINALE, Pleasantville, NY, 2006

Bobroff-Hajal’s work most recently won first prize in the Portrait category of Katonah, New York’s 2007 Beaux Arts exhibit. She won both First and Third Prizes in Westchester’s 2006 Beaux Arts Finale.

She has just launched a blog on portraiture on this website: blog.AnneBobroffHajal.com

Bobroff-Hajal has been involved in the field of fine art animation as an executive board member of ASIFA (Association Internationale du Film d’Animations – international animated film association). She originated and curated the Jacob Burns Film Center’s series Shorts Suite, about which a half-page article appeared in the New York Times Sunday Arts and Leisure section 8/4/02. She created programs for ASIFA at the School of Visual Arts in New York City; for example, she conceived, curated, and spoke at “Between Background and Character,” showcasing innovative stop-motion-animators’ use of 3-dimensional space. She was the Animation Program Advisor for the Jacob Burns Film Center, and was interviewed by local TV’s “Spotlight on the Arts.” She was featured in “New York vs. Los Angeles,” a 9/01 Script magazine article. Her work for New York Women in Film’s “Film in the City” was covered in BackStage, indieWIRE and Script magazine.

She is the great-granddaughter of John Becker, head of Louis C. Tiffany’s Bronze and Iron Works. John Becker worked closely with Tiffany to create the exquisite bases of Tiffany lamps and all other highly-prized Tiffany bronze items during Louis C. Tiffany’s heyday. Many of John Becker’s metal works made with Tiffany were exhibited in LOUIS COMFORT TIFFANY, ARTIST FOR THE AGES, Toledo Art Museum, 2006.

Bobroff-Hajal has traveled widely and lived in Russia for a year. She has studied history as well as the arts at Sarah Lawrence College.