Anna Campbell is an Associate Professor in the Department of Gender & Women’s Studies. She received her MFA in Sculpture from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Using sculpture, site-specific installation and the design of ephemera, Anna’s work deconstructs signifiers of gender and heteronormativity. Appropriated and abstracted references to domestic spaces, gay bars and building construction are employed to access new attachments of possibility and desire. Her 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 spent time 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. She is an Affiliate of the Art Department and the Center for Visual Cultures.
A word from Janet Hyde, Chair of Gender and Women’s Studies Department:
The Department of Gender & Women’s Studies is thrilled to have Anna Campbell join our tenured ranks. Anna is a rising superstar in the art world. According to one reviewer, Anna Campbell is one of the “three or four finest artists working in queer art today.” Anna brings honor and national recognition to our department and to the University.