Anna Conway was born in 1973 in Durango, Colorado. She received her BFA from the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art and later received her MFA from Columbia University School of the Arts. Conway is the recipient of two awards from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation (2005 and 2011), the William Metcalf Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters (2008), and the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship (2014).

Recent solo exhibitions include Anna Conway, Fergus McCaffrey, New York; Anna Conway: Purpose, Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy; Anna Conway, American Contemporary, New York; and Anna Conway, Guild & Greyshkul, New York. Recent group exhibitions include In My Room, Fralin Museum of Art, Virginia; The Last Brucennial, Bruce High Quality Foundation, New York; Uncharted, University Art Museum, State University of New York, Albany; Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York; and Greater New York, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City. She lives and works in New York.