Anna Craycroft

{{short description|American conceptual artist}}

Anna Craycroft (born 1975) is an American conceptual artist who works with a variety of media, including sculpture, installation,{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/11/arts/design/11gall.html|title=Art in Review|first1=Ken|last1=Johnson|first2=Roberta|last2=Smith|first3=Karen|last3=Rosenberg|work=The New York Times |date=11 April 2008|publisher=|via=NYTimes.com|access-date=7 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190407075606/https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/11/arts/design/11gall.html|archive-date=7 April 2019|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=http://pica.org/event/anna-craycroft-2/|title=Anna Craycroft Residency|website=PICA|access-date=2019-04-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190407075607/http://pica.org/event/anna-craycroft-2/|archive-date=2019-04-07|url-status=live}} intervention{{cite web|url=https://www.artforum.com/diary/ariel-goldberg-on-berenice-abbott-a-life-in-photography-at-the-nypl-75167|title=Eye in the Sky|website=www.artforum.com|date=27 April 2018 |access-date=2019-04-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190407075607/https://www.artforum.com/diary/ariel-goldberg-on-berenice-abbott-a-life-in-photography-at-the-nypl-75167|archive-date=2019-04-07|url-status=live}} and public engagement.{{cite web|url=https://observer.com/2018/01/anna-craycroft-on-her-new-museum-installation-motion-into-being/|title=New Museum's Artist In Residence Puts Her Process on View|website=The New York Observer |date=25 January 2018|publisher=|access-date=7 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190407075603/https://observer.com/2018/01/anna-craycroft-on-her-new-museum-installation-motion-into-being/|archive-date=7 April 2019|url-status=live}} Craycroft was born in Eugene, Oregon.{{cite web|url=http://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/view/anna-craycroft|title=Anna Craycroft: Motion into Being|website=www.newmuseum.org|access-date=2019-04-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190407075608/https://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/view/anna-craycroft|archive-date=2019-04-07|url-status=live}} She earned her BA from the Slade School of Fine Art and her MFA from Columbia University School of the Arts.{{Cite web |title=Ten Columbia Alumni and Professors Awarded Guggenheim Fellowships |url=https://arts.columbia.edu/news/ten-columbia-alumni-and-professors-awarded-guggenheim-fellowships |access-date=2022-04-21 |website=Columbia - School of the Arts |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Anna Craycroft |url=https://www.art.yale.edu/anna-craycroft |access-date=2022-04-21 |website=Yale School of Art |language=en}}