Ann Shelton (MFA, The University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada) was born in Timaru, New Zealand. Currently living and working in Wellington, she exhibits on a regular basis in public galleries, artist-run spaces and dealer galleries within New Zealand and internationally – Shelton's work has been seen in Germany, China, Australia, Italy, England, Poland, Australia and North America. In 2009 she exhibited the series public places in Images Recalled (Bilder auf Abruf), a German photographic biennale curated by Tobias Berger and Esther Ruelfs.

In 2006 Shelton's major project a library to scale was awarded the Trust Waikato Contemporary Art Award, and in 2007 it toured New Zealand and Australia. In 2004, as the Govett-Brewster New Zealand Artist in Residence, she produced the solo museum show a kind of sleep and completed once more from the street, originally presented at Starkwhite Auckland. Recent group shows include Collect/project, at the Adam Art Gallery, curated by Tina Barton and Earth Matters at the Auckland City Art Gallery, curated by Natasha Conland.

Her works are featured in numerous public and private collections in New Zealand and overseas, including the Govett-Brewster, Te Papa Tongarewa and the Chartwell Collection. Shelton has had a number of books, artist books and catalogues published, including Redeye (Rim Books, New Zealand/Dewi Lewis, England, 1997). Shelton lectures in Fine Art and Photography at Massey University in Wellington and is currently Chair of Enjoy Public Art Gallery, Wellington’s artist-run space. She is represented by Starkwhite and Paul McNamara Gallery.