A woman with dark hair, dressed in black, squatting on a wooden platform with a gold border inside an art gallery. She is looking at the camera with a neutral expression. The gallery has plain white walls, and a small black and pink ramp is attached to the platform.

Anna Goodman Herrick, artist, on their sculpture, Altar with Wheelchair Ramp
Root Division Gallery, San Francisco

Selected Works

Anna Goodman Herrick is a queer, nonbinary, interdisciplinary artist. In June 2026, Newsweek featured Anna as a leader in LGBTQ+ representation. They were a guest speaker at 2026 West Hollywood Pride and a 2025 City of Los Angeles commissioned artist.

Anna’s practice investigates the relationship between the body and typography (the physical body of narrative), exploring queerness, gender, embodiment, connection, sovereignty, and access. They work across performance, photography, printmaking, painting, text, video, sculpture, and installation. Uniting these disciplines within a single body of work, Anna employs saturated color and formal contrast, subverting hegemonic, ritual, and pop-cultural iconography, challenging patriarchy and repressive hierarchies of who and what is considered sacred. The result invites deeper engagement with the self and with each other.

Anna’s work has been exhibited at Alena Museum, Root Division Gallery in San Francisco, and NEARCON Conference in Lisbon, Portugal, where Anna created an immersive VR experience drawing on their text-driven video practice. Their recent visual art is included in the anthology Together We Rise: Voices from the Frontlines of Freedom (Daxson Publishing, 2026).

As a poet and performance artist, Anna has performed at West Hollywood Pride, the Emily Dickinson Museum, Patagonia’s Earth Day, Artist Uprising at the El Paso Border, Bloomsday on Broadway, and more. Anna Goodman Herrick is the author of A Speaker is a Wilderness: Poems on the Sacred Path from Broken to Whole (Monkfish, 2024), presenting poems from many of these performances.

Special projects & commissions: Anna Goodman Herrick has created work on Netflix, MTV, Oprah Winfrey Network, Sony, and developed typographic design for their art activation at the 2017 Teen Vogue Summit, and has directed commissioned video art and narrative for leading brands.

Selected Brand Commission (Dance Film)

CITY OF LOS ANGELES COMMISSIONED ARTIST (2025)

All I Could Do was Cry in Gold Lamé
Time-based performance with video art, Lankershim Theater, Los Angeles, CA

Commissioned to create performance art tribute to Etta James, for event honoring “Californian Women Who Shifted Culture”

Performance and video stills

DIASPORA PRAYER OF THE REFUGEE’S GRANDCHILD (2021 -2023)

Title: “Diaspora Prayer of the Refugee’s Grandchild”
Medium: Video Art
Dimensions: 16 x 9 4K HD

Exhibition, Gallery, and Event Tour, U.S., Portugal, Canada, including:

Life as Ceremony Digital Exhibit, Curator: Alice Baca (2021)
Now! Journal: Stories Left Out: Artists in Defense of Critical Race Theory, Digital Exhibition (2021)
Peretz Centre for Secular Jewish Culture, Vancouver, Canada (2022)

As VR:
Low Key Giant Magazine presents ROOTS (2023)
NEARCON Conference, Lisbon, Portugal (2023)

Title: “Diaspora Prayer of the Refugee’s Grandchild VR Experience”
Medium: Virtual Reality

Sample from Live 3D VR experience

Exhibitions:
Low Key Giant Magazine presents ROOTS (2023)
NEARCON Conference, Lisbon, Portugal (2023)

WE PUT OUR BODIES ON THE ALTAR (2020)
INSTALLATION AND COLLECTION

Interactive Interdisciplinary Art Installation: Sculpture, Projection Art, Audio recordings, Live Performance Art activation

We Put Our Bodies on the Altar (Sculpture)
wood, aluminum, galvanized steel, gold eyeliner, found stones, found clubbing clothes (mixed metal chainmail)
12” x 120” x 120”

We Put Our Bodies on the Altar (Projections)
Site-Specific Art Installation
Original digital typography, motion graphics, and video projection, single-channel video projection,
approx 240” x 240”
height variable
4 minutes (Loop)

We Put Our Bodies on the Altar (Audio)
Art Installation
Dual-Channel Audio recording, sound design, mp3 player, headphones
4 minutes (Loop)


Live opening and closing night performance art and poetry by the artist

Reflections on Exile Group Exhibit
Root Division Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Catalogue
(FKA Anna Talhami)

A woman with dark hair, dressed in black, squatting on a wooden platform with a gold border inside an art gallery. She is looking at the camera with a neutral expression. The gallery has plain white walls, and a small black and pink ramp is attached to the platform.

Anna Goodman Herrick, artist, on their sculpture.

Altar with Wheelchair Ramp
Sculpture
(Wood, Aluminum, Steel, Textile, Video, Recorded Audio)
12 ft high x 12 ft wide x 8 ft deep

From Anna’s installation and performance art activation, We Put Our Bodies on the Altar
“Reflections on ExileGroup exhibit,
Root Division Gallery, San Francisco, CA (2020)

People standing in line at an indoor event, some with hooded clothing, and a woman in white robe with a hood gesturing with her hands.

Closing Night Performance

We Put Our Bodies on the Altar
Time-Based Performance Art
Approx. 20 minutes
time variable

We Put Our Bodies on the Altar
Time-Based Performance Art
Approx. 20 minutes
time variable

Audiences interact with Anna’s installation during its opening, where Anna’s performance art activates their visual and auditory art, creating an immersive experience.

Selected Commission:
YOU WERE NOT BORN TO SUFFER (2021)
Artist Project commissioned for Random House release
Featuring leading dancers in current pop music

Video Stills

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& dancer credits