Ann Abreu is a native the Dominican Republic. At an early age she migrated to New York City, where she continued her secondary studies and obtained the highest honor in art at her High School. Ana attended New York City College in Brooklyn, where she majored in Commercial Arts. Not long after, she obtained a Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts from the University of Massachusetts in Lowell. After graduation, Ana traveled to London where she expanded her knowledge of the Masters while visiting some of Europe’s famous museums. She later returns to
Abreu was soon off to Southwest Florida, where she further developed as an artist and has become a well known Latin Artist who has exhibited at many venues in the region like; the Southwest Florida Museum of History, Dore Fine Art Gallery, the Alliance for the Arts, Cultural Institute of the Mexican Consulate in Miami, Fort Myers Toyota’s Latin Art 
Exhibition, the Union Street Artist Company Gallery and the very popular Daas Gallery in downtown Fort Myers, where she gained recognition and an honorary mention for her painting “What’s Up?” in their Pop Art exhibition. She continues to exhibit at many other well known places throughout Southwest Florida.
Ann Abreu is a painter but just recently launched her new career as a published author, launching her first Children’s book tilted: La Hadita Florisol, (Florisol, the little fairy), a bilingual book, in English and Spanish, directed at parents with children battling eating challenges and obesity. Her literary works have been published in several magazines, newspapers and featured on local TV programs. Abreu has joined a select group of Hispanic artists from Southwest Florida who have come together to help promote their art and culture to the world.
