About
Anna Goodman Herrick, artist, on their sculpture, Altar with Wheelchair Ramp
Root Division Gallery, San Francisco
Anna Goodman Herrick is a queer, nonbinary, interdisciplinary artist. They were a 2025 City of Los Angeles Commissioned Artist and a guest speaker at 2026 West Hollywood Pride. In June 2026, Newsweek featured Anna as a leading voice in LGBTQ+ representation.
Anna’s work has been exhibited at Alena Museum, Root Division Gallery in San Francisco, and NEARCON Conference in Lisbon, Portugal, which presented Anna’s VR installation.
As a poet and performance artist, Anna has performed at the Emily Dickinson Museum, with Los Angeles Review of Books at Hauser & Wirth, Artist Uprising, Bloomsday on Broadway, and more.
Anna is the author of A Speaker is a Wilderness (Monkfish, 2024), poetry that includes texts from Anna’s installations. Available everywhere books are sold.
Anna’s practice explores queerness, gender, embodiment, ritual, connection, sovereignty, and access. They work across performance, photography, printmaking, painting, text, video, sculpture, and installation. Uniting these disciplines, Anna’s work often investigates the relationship between the body and narrative, utilizing typography (as the physical body of narrative), and ceremony and camp/glam aesthetics, through a recurring vocabulary of gold, nostalgic nightclub and drag materials, reflective surfaces, saturated color, and formal contrast. They often use their own body in their work as a canvas.
Their practice subverts hegemonic, ritual, and pop-cultural iconography, challenging patriarchal and other repressive hierarchies of who and what is considered sacred. The result invites deeper engagement with the self and with each other.