Anne McGuire was born in Minnesota and lives and works in San Francisco. She received an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. She has exhibited in the San Francisco Bay Area and multiple cities including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and internationally including Vancouver, London, Dublin, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Zurich, and Tokyo. Most recently, she participated in a group painting exhibition at et al gallery and her video was featured at the David Ireland House, both in San Francisco. She has been featured in SF Guardian, Time Out London, Art Slant, and KQED.org Arts blog. McGuire is in the permanent collection of the Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive, and her videos are in numerous art school and university libraries.

McGuire deftly navigates the disciplines of painting, video, performance, and writing. She is known for her humorous performance videos, such as Joe DiMaggio 1,2,3 (1991) in which she sings to the baseball legend from the safety of her VW Bug as he takes his daily walk through the Marina Green. She is also celebrated for her groundbreaking series of long-form videos (beginning with Strain Andromeda, The, in 1992) in which she reorganizes a complete film, cut by cut, from end to beginning so the action remains forward moving, but the narrative is reversed. McGuire is also a long-time maker of mail art, which inspired her to begin recreating “great works of art” as seen on postage stamps, which explore how meaning and context shift through time and scale.