Annieo Klaas is an oil painter that grew up in Dakar, Senegal and received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Seattle, Washington at Cornish College of the Arts in 2015. She has always been interested in painting the things around her that are beautiful but go unnoticed, such as the rainbows of color in an oily sewage puddle, or the fluffy quilts of mold growing on a cement building underneath a bush.
Her work is a part of the Fred Hutch Cornish Collection in Seattle, Washington, as well as other personal collections across the US and in Senegal. She was commissioned as part of a team to create a permanent outdoor mural for InCity Properties' "The Local" at 422 Summit Ave E in Seattle, WA in 2015 and is now based in Mobile, AL.
Selected group exhibitions include: “Fifth LaGrange Southeast Regional” Juried by Hannah Israel at the LaGrange Art Museum (Lagrange, GA, 2024) and "NEU DAWN 6" Curated by Courtney Matthews for the Alabama Contemporary Art Center (Mobile, AL, 2023). Selected solo exhibitions include: "When the Sky Looks In", curated by Lucy Gafford for the Mobile Arts Council (Mobile, AL, 2024), and "Memory Cloth" for Vignettes Weekender, curated by Sierra Stinson and Serrah Russel, (Seattle, WA 2016).