Anna Campbell

Using sculpture, site-specific installation and the design of ephemera, Anna Campbell’s work deconstructs otherwise legible signifiers of gender and heteronormativity. Appropriated and abstracted references to domestic spaces, gay bars and other more provisional architectures, are employed to access new attachments of possibility and desire from what might seem otherwise like static legacies. Campbell’s 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, the Center For Book Arts, and the Green Gallery at Yale. Her work has been featured in the Advocate.com, Hyperallergic, GQ.com, the Chicago Reader, and in the recently released 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, the MoMA Library, and the Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, and her site-specific, bronze sculpture is permanently installed at the Lesbian Herstory Archives in Brooklyn. She earned a BA in Studio Art from the College of Wooster and an MFA in Sculpture from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Campbell maintains a studio in New York and Madison, WI where she teaches at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.