Born in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Annie has since lived in New Zealand, Italy and the UK. Having completed her Fine Arts education at Elam School of Fine Arts with Honours and the Rhode Island School of Design in the USA, Annie Sandano has exhibited in New Zealand, Australia, the UK and the USA. Annie is based in London and works between London and Auckland and recent acquisitions have seen works featured in The Wallace Arts Trust, The Hilton Group and the Deloitte Art Collection.

​“Assembling, collating and hybridising to reconfigure visual vocabularies, I work across a variety of media. My first exhibited works were my wood block prints and I have extended my visual investigation and developed my practice into the area of painting  and most recently ceramics.”​

Other recent achievements include having an installation selected as finalist and catalogue cover for New Zealand's 2019 Portage Ceramics Award, and having a piece featured in Prince William and Catherine Duchess of Cambridge’s private collection and having a painting selected as finalist for the Waikato Society of Arts 2022 New Zealand Painting and Printmaking Award.