Ann Hirsch (b. 1985) is a video and performance artist based in New York. Her work engages with the contemporary portrayal of women in media. Often acting as an amateur social scientist, Hirsch inserts herself into popular culture, reporting back her findings in the form of art works. She has recently performed at American Medium, KANSAS gallery and Interstate Projects in New York. Critic Karen Archey writes, "(She) works to extend conversations on female intellectuality and sexuality began by artists such as Valie Export, Andrea Fraser and Adrian Piper, and that of parody mastered by Cindy Sherman. That Hirsch’s preferred platforms of Youtube and reality TV are so banal should highlight her works’ subversive value extending beyond the art world into the highly visible sphere of pop culture. The artist does well to question not only the “realness” of reality television, but also that of the highly hermetic contemporary art world."