Ange Altenhofen - headshot portrait

Ange Altenhofen…

is an interactive sculptor and wearable art maker currently based in rural Iowa. She earned her MFA degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and was the recipient of the Fred Forster Fellowship. Ange's work has been exhibited extensively both nationally and internationally, including at galleries and museums in Florence, Italy, Chicago, Philadelphia, and Washington D.C.

Notable exhibitions in the United States include the Museum of Contemporary Arts Chicago, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Smart Museum, the Museum of Surgical Science in Chicago, the Des Moines Art Center, and the Hyde Park Art Center which sponsored "Project Molehill," her hand-sewn climbing wall installed at the Cook County Administration Building in the Chicago Loop. She was also selected for the Artlink@Sotheby's International Young Art series which featured her interactive sculptures at Sotheby's Auction Houses in Tel Aviv, Vienna, and Chicago.

Since relocating to Iowa in 2015,…

Ange was selected as an Iowa Artist Fellow in 2019 by the Iowa Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts and received a New York Foundation for the Arts Grant and a Rauschenberg Foundation Grant in 2021.

She was recently awarded a 2023 Project Grant from the Iowa Arts Council and the NEA to support the creation of the interactive sculpture Grotto which will be featured in the upcoming exhibition “Transform Any Room” at the Des Moines Art Center from October 2023 through January 2024.


photo portrait: by Sharon Wilhite / Views of the artist installing a variety of exhibitions and inhabiting artwork costume suits for various performances.