Anna Campbell

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

Anna Campbell is an artist, designer, and professor. Their sculptures, installations, and ephemera mine queer history and desire. Using material metaphors evoked through scaffold, found objects, and digitally fabricated forms, they construct immersive, exploded diagrams of archives for queer and feminist histories that might have existed. Their ephemera, or prefigurative merch, often marks fabulated sites, and creates rhizomatic and itinerant installations that insist on intimate engagement and the dailyness of queer survival. Their work has been featured in Queer Holdings: A Survey of the Leslie-Lohman Collection (Hirmer Verlag, 2019), Erica Rand’s “Hip Openers: On the Visuals of Gendering Athleticism,” in Queer Difficulties in Art and Poetry: Re-thinking the Sexed Body in Verse and Visual Culture (Routledge, 2017), ASAPjournal.com, the Advocate.com, Hyperallergic.com, GQ.com, and the Chicago Reader. Campbell has been in residence at ACRE (Artists’ Cooperative Residency and Exhibitions), FIAR (Fire Island Artist Residency), Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Ox-Bow, and the Vermont Studio Center. Campbell is an Affiliate of the Art Department and the Center for Visual Culture and Performance Studies.

GENDER & WOMEN’S STUDIES COURSES

GEN&WS 340: Topics in LGBTQ Sexuality: Contemporary Queer Art and Visual Culture
GEN&WS 410: Special Topics in Gender and Visual Culture: Feminist Art and Visual Culture

SELECT SOLO EXHIBITIONS

Green Room for a Dream Sequence, Eric Ruschman and Matt Morris, curators, Ruschwoman Gallery, Chicago, IL 2024
Dress Rehearsal for a Dream Sequence, Lia Gangitano, curator, Participant, Inc. New York, NY 2022
Apparatus for a Dream Sequence, Beth A. Zinsli, curator, Wriston Art Galleries, Lawrence University, Appleton, WI, 2018
Etiquette Kit, BOSI Contemporary, New York, NY, 2015

SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS

DEMO, Water Street Projects, presented by NEW INC and New Museum, New York, NY, 2025
Exposure, Carrie Yamaoka, curator, Ulterior Gallery, New York, NY, 2025
Flagging the Circle, Sargent’s Daughters, New York, NY, 2024
Oil of Milk, Nirvana Santos-Kuilan, curator, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA, 2023
Idol Worship, Emily Colucci, curator, SmackMellon, Brooklyn, NY, 2019
Glass Ceiling: Art of Resilience and Fragility, Osman Can Yerebakan, curator, Urban Glass, Brooklyn, NY, 2017
Let Me Be an Object that Screams, Matt Morris, curator, Gallery 400, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, IL, 2017
Expanded Visions: Fifty Years of Collecting, Rob Hugh Rosen and Branden Wallace, curators, Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, New York, NY, 2017
Do You Hear What I Hear? (Anthony Elms, curator) AIR Gallery, New York, NY, 2016

SELECT PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Watson Library at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Lesbian Herstory Archives, Brooklyn, NY (site-specific, permanent installation)
Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, New York, NY
MoMA Library, New York, NY
Center For Book Arts, New York, NY