Trevor Warren (b. 1996, Tacoma, WA; lives and works in Brooklyn, NY) is a painter whose practice understands the image as an active ecology, a system in which memory, atmosphere, and material sediment continuously reorganize one another. Working through staining, cyanotype, stitching, and modular construction, Warren creates paintings that behave less like fixed compositions and more like stratified terrains. Each surface carries its own weather, its own temporal drift, its own record of internal change. His work is shaped by a belief that perception is inherently unstable, and that images cohere only through the provisional gathering of fragments, ruptures, and returns. Across these shifting fields, Warren treats painting as a porous threshold between emotional and environmental experience.

In Amber Amethyst, 2024, Warren composes a richly saturated chromatic architecture from jewel-toned modules. Reds, violets, and greens pulse through the surface, creating a rhythm akin to light refracting through mineral. The modular scaffold maintains these intensities in a dynamic equilibrium, producing a topography of emotional resonance that feels both crystalline and fluid at once.

Warren received his degree from the Johnston Center for Integrative Studies, where he studied art and cultural geography. He was nominated for a Rema Hort Mann Foundation Emerging Artist Grant in 2023. His work has been exhibited at CANADA Gallery, Halsey McKay, Field Projects, among others. His work was recently acquired as a gift to the University of Pennsylvania’s Hospital. He is the Manager of Publications at CANADA and co-founder of the independent literary arts magazine Counterbound.