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

Part of Anna’s installation, We Put Our Bodies on the Altar
Reflections on Exile exhibit
Root Division Gallery, San Francisco, CA (2020)

THE ART

Anna Goodman Herrick is a multidisciplinary artist working across photography, print, painting, video, performance, and installation. Anna was a 2025 City of Los Angeles commissioned artist. Their work has been exhibited at Alena Museum, Root Division Gallery, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., and NEARCON Conference in Lisbon, Portugal, where Anna created an immersive VR experience based on her text-driven video art.

Their ambitious work often presents multidisciplines in one collection with rich, bold colors, contrasting elements, subversion of pop culture, and a strong narrative that pushes back on repressive ideas of who and what is considered sacred. Their work invites deeper engagement with ourselves and each other.

As a poet and performance artist, Anna has performed at the Emily Dickinson Museum, Patagonia’s Earth Day, Bloomsday on Broadway, and more.

In a lineage of conceptual art incorporating multiple mediums, Anna’s practice unites photography, sculpture, hand-printed typography, experimental film and video, and text to explore profoundly resonant themes of sovereignty and connection, extraction and planting, the synthetic and nature, survival and expansion, constriction and liberation.

CITY OF LOS ANGELES COMMISSIONED ARTIST (2025)

Time-based performance art with video, Lankershim Theater, Los Angeles, CA

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

Performance 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)

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

We Put Our Bodies On the Altar
Interactive Multidisciplinary Art Installation:: Anna Goodman Herrick
Sculpture, Projections, Screen prints, Audio recordings, with live opening and closing night performance art and poetry by the artist
Reflections on Exile Show, Root Division Gallery, San Francisco, CA

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.

Audiences interact with Anna’s installation during its opening at Root Division Gallery in San Francisco, where Anna’s performance art activates the visual artwork, creating an immersive experience.