Anna Warfield (b. 1995) is a soft sculptor and poet based in Binghamton, New York. Her predominantly fiber works engage with the body, unlearning, language, and claiming space.
Her debut solo museum exhibition, “Placid Thoughts From Behind Her Eyelids,” opened in August 2023 at the Roberson Museum in Binghamton, New York. Her work has been honored in recent years through a NYSCA Artist Support Grant in 2023; Gertrude Herdle Moore Award at MAG Rochester and Juror’s Choice Award in the Southern Tier Biennale in 2021; and through a collaborative NEA, NYSCA and NYFA grant in 2020.
Warfield spoke at the “Text and Techne; Textile Poetics and Poetic Textiles” conference at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland in June 2023, and has guest lectured with Binghamton University, Cornell University, and NYFA. She has worked on projects with and for a number of artists and institutions including: Na Chainkua Reindorf (Venice Biennale, Ghana Pavillon, 2022), Carrie Mae Weems (The Shape of Things, Park Avenue Armory, 2021), and LUMA Projection Arts Festival (Production Director, 2020 – 2023).
Warfield holds a B.F.A. and B.S. in Communication both from Cornell University where her thesis received the Charles Baskerville Painting Award.