Anicka Austin is an interdisciplinary artist, mother, and archivist based in Atlanta, Georgia. She attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a Carolina Academic Library Associates fellowship, graduating in May 2020 with a Master of Science in Library Science. Her focus on embodied archives and the tension between ephemerality and documentation grew from creative process as a 2017-2018 WonderRoot Hughley Fellow.  In 2023, photographer and archivist Sierra King and Austin collaborated on Untitled, a dance-based installation supported by Atlanta Downtown Improvement District to elucidate the archive as a source for meditation on the interior worlds of Black women artists.

Her choreographic work has been presented by Elevate Atlanta, The Lucky Penny (2015-2018), and Fulton County Arts and Culture and exhibited at Gallery 72, the Zuckerman Museum of Art’s Fine Arts Gallery, and the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art. As artist-researcher, she presented written scholarship and choreography on  site-specific performance in Atlanta’s public spaces as Atlanta Art on the Beltline Scholar-in-Residence (2021-2022) and is co-author of Composite Harmonies: Reclaiming Memory Artifacts through Community Creative Practice (2025).​​​​​​​