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 Mima Mounds, 2025, Warren draws from the enigmatic geological formations of his native Washington State. Layers of oil wash and impasto rise and collapse across the canvas, echoing the earth’s own unstable strata. The painting vibrates between landscape and interiority, suggesting that both terrain and psyche are shaped by forces that exceed legibility. Ravicka, 2025 extends this inquiry into perceptual instability. Named after Renee Gladman’s fictional city, the painting evokes a topology where language, architecture, and atmosphere remain in perpetual shift. Warren builds its surface from translucent veils of pigment, modular fragments, and zones of chromatic drift, creating a composition that behaves like a weather system caught in mid-transformation. The work forms its own atmosphere, a place where structure dissolves into haze and perception becomes elastic.

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.