Anya Liftig
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Anya Liftig

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Anya Liftig is a performance artist and writer. Her works has been exhibited at TATE Modern, MOMA, Center for Performance Research, Panoply Performance Lab, Lapsody4 Finland, Fado, Queens Museum, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Rose Art Museum, Grace Space, Movement Research, Performer Stammtisch Berlin, Performance Space London, MPA-Berlin, OVADA-Oxford and many other venues around the world. As a dancer and actress, Liftig has performed with Michael Freeman at Joyce Soho and at The Chocolate Factory and New York Live Arts in Andrea Kleine’s Screening Room and My Dinner with Andrea. In The Anxiety of Influence she dressed exactly like Marina Abramovic and sat across from her all day during “The Artist is Present” exhibition at MOMA. Liftig’s work has been published and written about in the New York Times Magazine, BOMB, The Wall Street Journal, Vogue Italia, Now and Then, PAJ, New York, Critical Correspondence, Theater Magazine, Hyperallergic and many others. Since 2021 her experimental film and video work has been screened in festivals in the UK, Canada, Spain, France, Sweden, and the Netherlands. Her non-fiction essays have been featured in Brain, Teen, BioStories, Hippocampus, Kindred and The Chattahoochee Review (Lamar York Prize Winner) nominated for a Pushcart Prize and noted in Best American Non-Fiction. She is a 2021 Connecticut Council for the Arts Emerging Arts Fellow in Creative Writing, a recipient of a Franklin Furnace Award, and fellowships at MacDowell and Yaddo.
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