Originally from Cincinnati, Ohio, Ann Toebbe received her BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art in 1997. She earned an MFA in painting from Yale University in 2004 and a DAAD Scholarship to the Universität der Kunst, Berlin in 2004-05. She has been the recipient of numerous grants including a Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant in 2005 and 2015, a Sustainable Arts Foundation Grant in 2015, and a Chicago Dcase and IL Council for The Arts Grant in 2017. She was a 2017 AiR at Pilchuck School of Glass and fellow at the Vermont Studio Center in 2018. In 2019 Toebbe had solo shows at Tibor de Nagy Gallery and Sarah Lawrence College. She is represented by Tibor de Nagy in NYC and Steven Zevitas in Boston. Toebbe lives in Chicago.