About Me

About Me
About Me

Anita Rosenberg began her art education at the San Francisco Art Institute with a BFA in welding metal sculpture. She then moved to NYC to earn her MFA in film directing from New York University Graduate Film School. As a writer, producer, and director, Anita was one of the few female directors in Hollywood in the late 1980s with cult classic chick flicks: “Modern Girls" and “Assault of the Killer Bimbos.”

Making these low-budget independent movies taught her a lot of things, including how to persevere in a make-dominated industry. Movie making helped shape her life, personally and professionally. But after fourteen years kicking around the studios, pitching non-stop to a battery of male producers, not even a glam four-hour lunch with George Clooney was enough to hold her in a business without opportunities for female-driven projects. Returning to her art school roots, Anita painted candle sticks and picture frames, launching a million-dollar home decor collection out of her garage in the Hollywood Hills. She then established her current profession—a flourishing spiritual practice that includes writing and publishing inspirational books as a Feng Shui and Chinese Astrology Expert.

Her newest award-winning popular culture book, How to Be the Star of Your Life: Lessons From Hollywood & Beyond, pays tribute to the many people in her life who have taught her what it means to work hard and succeed in what they do. 

In a photography career spanning fifty-seven years, Anita shares her images of famous friends, graffiti artists, and exotic locales, among other significant moments in her career.

Anita lives and works in Hollywood. She considers herself a visual archivist of popular culture.


Education

1979 BFA – San Francisco Art Institute, Sculpture

1982 MFA – New York University Graduate Film & Television, Film Directing


Published Photos

2010 - Beyond the Street: The 100 Leading Figures in Urban Art by Patrick Nguyen, Stuart Mackenzie (eds.) (Gestalten) Berlin

2011 - The Tipster Chronicles by Anita Rosenberg for MOCA Art in the Streets

2011 - 354 Graffiti (Abrams)

2012 - UNLEASHED – Rebel Art Issue, UK

2012 - Art & Music, The Saatchi Gallery Magazine (cover shot)

2012 - Art in the Streets (Rizzoli)

2012 – FUN GALLERY ...the true story by Patti Astor

2019 – Street Art by Simon Armstrong (Thames & Hudson)

2020 - Life and Death on the New York Dance Floor 1980-1983 by Tim Lawrence

2020 - The Dutch Adventures of Keith Haring Amsterdam Notes by Chris Reinewald (Dutch Graffiti Library Foundation)

2021 - City As Studio by Jeffrey Deitch (K11 Art Foundation) Hong Kong


Museum Exhibitions –
Group Shows

2024 - New Orleans Jazz Museum, New Orleans, LA

2011 - Museum of Contemporary Art, “Art in the Streets” Los Angeles, CA

2003 - Los Angeles County Museum of Art, “Emerging Southern California Artists”
Los Angeles, CA

Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH

Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH


Exhibitions – Solo Shows

2010 - Ranch-N-Roll, “Virgin Mary of Guadalupe”
Los Angeles, CA

2005 - 626 Gallery, “Travels with the Single Girl”
Los Angeles, CA

2005 - Jonathan Martin Gallery “Travels with the Single Girl; Quick Trip to Cuba” Aspen, CO

2005 - Arclight Hollywood, “Buddha-licious; Searching for Buddha!” Hollywood, CA

2003 - Living our Loud Gallery, “Southeast Asia” Aspen, CO

2002 - Huesso Gallery, Palm Springs, CA

2000 - Cambium Gallery, “The World As I See It” Chicago, IL

1991 - Malton Gallery, “A Caribbean Caper” Cincinnati, OH

1979 - San Francisco Art Institute – San Francisco, CA


Exhibitions – Group Shows

2014 - Calumet Gallery “Poetic Perspectives” Hollywood Arts Council, Los Angeles, CA

2013 - Fay Gold Gallery “Art in the Streets” Westside Cultural Center Atlanta, GA

2012 - Harvey’s Art Gallery “Repurposed” Los Angeles, CA

2010 – Erice Firestone Gallery “Down By Law –
New York’s Underground Art Explosion 1970’s-1980’s” East Hampton, NY

2009 – Melt Gallery at Meltdown Comics
“Back to the FUN Gallery” Los Angeles, CA

2006 – 626 Gallery “Of All Things Considered” Los Angeles, CA

2003 - Orbetello Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2003 - Tesoro Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA

1990 - Wilshire Gallery, Los Angeles, CA


Private Collection

(partial list)

Annie Potts (photographed for Architectural Digest 2023)

John Travolta and Kelly Preston

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Tom Cruise

Nicole Kidman


Corporate Collection

(partial list)

House of Blues

The Mirage Las Vegas

Harrah’s Las Vegas

Hard Rock Café

Warner Bros Stores

Universal Studios

Arco Oil

Johnson & Johnson

Marshall Fields



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