about — Anna Campbell

b. Port Jefferson, NY
lives and works in New York, NY
and Madison, WI
anna [dot] campbell [at] wisc [dot] edu

Campbell and another foundry worker pour bronze into ingot molds.

Photograph by Lola Flash
for the 2019 Queer|Art
Community Portrait Project

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Campbell’s sculptures, installations, and ephemera mine history and queer
desire, repurposing otherwise stable signifiers of gender and
heteronormativity.

Campbell’s
most recent solo exhibit, Dress Rehearsal for a Dream Sequence, on
view at Participant, Inc in New York in 2022, was listed as an Artforum Must-See, featured in a Brooklyn Rail New Social Environment talk with
Ksenia Soboleva, and reviewed in the New Art Examiner. Her exhibition record includes solo
exhibits at BOSI Contemporary in New York, Tractionarts in LA, and the Window
Into Houston at the Blaffer Art Museum in Houston, Texas, as well as group
exhibits at Seoul National University of Science and Technology in South
Korea, AIR Gallery in Brooklyn, Gallery 400 in Chicago, and the Green Gallery
at Yale.

Campbell’s
work has been featured in Queer Holdings: A Survey of the Leslie-Lohman
Collection (Hirmer, 2019) as well as in the Advocate.com, Hyperallergic,
GQ.com, the Chicago Reader, and in “Hip openers: on the visuals
of gendering athleticism” by Erica Rand, published in Queer Difficulties
in Verse and Visual Culture, edited by Jongwoo Jeremy Kim &
Christopher Reed (Routledge, 2017.)
She has been in residence at FIAR (Fire Island Artist Residency), ACRE
(Artists’ Cooperative Residency and Exhibitions), Ox-Bow, the Vermont Studio
Center, and Haystack Mountain School of Crafts.

Campbell’s work is in the collections of numerous universities
as well as the Leslie Lohman Museum, the MoMA Library, the Watson Library at the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, and her site-specific, bronze sculpture is permanently
installed at the Lesbian Herstory Archives in Brooklyn.}

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