Anna Ridler is a London-based artist and writer whose practice uses machine learning to investigate how naming, classification and financial speculation determine what can be seen and what is erased. Working from handmade archives, she has spent over a decade building her own datasets by hand and training neural networks on them. She began working with machine learning as an artistic material in 2017, at a moment when it was still possible to train on an entirely hand-created dataset, a method that became the foundation of the practice.

Her most recognised works connect seventeenth-century Dutch tulip speculation to contemporary cryptocurrency markets. Her work is held in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Victoria and Albert Museum, M+ Hong Kong and ZKM Karlsruhe. Recent solo exhibitions include Time Blooms at the Buk Seoul Museum of Art (2025) and Circadian Bloom at ZKM Karlsruhe (2023). Recent commissions include works for the Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities at the University of Oxford (2026), Kunsthaus Graz and Diriyah Art Futures, Riyadh. She has exhibited at the Barbican Centre, the Taipei Fine Arts Museum and the MIT Museum. She is represented by Galerie Nagel Draxler. Ridler was named ABS Digital Artist of the Year in 2025. She holds an MA from the Royal College of Art and a BA in English Literature from Oxford University, and was a European Union EMAP fellow and the winner of the 2018–2019 DARE Art Prize.