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Anya Liftig
b. 1977, Norwalk, CT USA
Solo Exhibitions:
2018
Leviathan and Lonely, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, Milwaukee, WI
2015
All the Animals in the Gemaldegalerie, Berlin, Germany
All the Animals in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, NY
2014
Twin High Maintenance Machines, Panoply Performance Lab, Brooklyn, NY
2013
All the Animals in the British Museum, AliKati Projects, London, England
2012
I’m a Groucho Marxist, Public Art Performance Intervention, Flux Projects Commission, Atlanta, GA
Crisp As a Twenty, [performance space], London, England
The Human Factor, OVADA and Roves and Roams, Oxford, England
Deliverance (w Clifford Owens, Laura Ginn,Jayson Munsson) Atlanta Contemporary Arts Center, Atlanta, GA
2011
Falling/Flying, Highways Performance Space, Santa Monica, CA
Ditties for the Dirty War, Center for Performance Research, (collaboration with Low Lives 3) Brooklyn, NY
2010
The Anxiety of Influence, Guerilla Intervention into The Artist is Present at MOMA, New York, NY
The Nothings, University Art Museum, Pittsburg State University, Pittsburg, KS
2009
What Might Have Been Lost, Middlesex Community College, Middletown, CT
Jewbilly, Eyedrum, Atlanta, GA
Amor Y Problems, Casa Tres Patios, Medellin, Colombia,
Jewbilly, Joseph Slifka Center, Yale University, New Haven, CT
2008
Rejection, INCUBATEChicago, Chicago, IL
District Nest Street, Chashama Art Foundation, New York, NY
2006
Collusion, The Tank, New York, NY
Woven Room, collaboration with Angus Galloway, Part of The American Living Room Festival,
HERE Arts Center, 3LGdDog Art and Technology Center, New York, NY
2004
Unravel, Garage Projects, Stable 1897, Atlanta, GA
Everything I Own, Youngblood Gallery, Atlanta, GA
self-evidence, MFA Thesis Show, Gallery I, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA
2003
Baby Invasion, Eyedrum, Atlanta, GA
2000
Ganderbill Holler, Abrons Art Center, Henry Street Settlement, New York, NY
Selected Live Performances:
2021
Performancy Forum, Praxis Practice w/Performaistanbul, St. Louis, MO, Istanbul, TK and Zoom
Imagined Performance Art Storytime (Collaboration w/IV Castellanos) Parallel Performance Space Online
2019
Carborium Performance Art Festival, Kiev, Ukraine
2018
Movement Research at Judson Memorial Church, New York, NY
Rear Window, Glasshouse, Brooklyn, NY
Without God or Governance, Marinaro Gallery, New York, NY
Jennifer Vanilla Hour Live, The Windjammer, Ridgewood, NY
Metamorphosis, Panoply Performance Lab, Brooklyn, NY
Neo Domestic Performance Festival, Glasshouse, Brooklyn, NY
Performance is Alive, Satellite Art Fair, Miami, FL
2017
Are Friends Electric? Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA
Experiments and Disorders, Dixon Place, New York, NY
Performance Mix Festival, NewDance Alliance, University Settlement, New York, NY
My Dinner with Andrea (Directed by Andrea Kleine), New York Live Arts, New York, NY
Neo Domestic Festival, Glasshouse, Brooklyn, NY
2016
Centepide Series, JACK, Brooklyn, NY
Current Mill, Homage to the Futurists, Glasshouse, Brooklyn, NY
Performancy Forum, Panoply Performance Lab, Brooklyn, NY
Anya Liftig, Gracie Devito, Samuel White, Human Resources, LA, CA
Present Archeology, Undercurrent Projects, New York, New York
INVERSE Performance Festival, Bentonville, AK
Steakhouse Live, Tender Loin, ArtsAdmin, London
SALTA w/AUNTS, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
Screening Room or the Return of Andrea Kleine, New York Live Arts, NY, NY
2015
Queer City Cinema, Regina, Saskatchewan Canada
Liftig and I, Performance with Tess Dworman, Center for Performance Research, Brooklyn, NY
Month of Performance Art Berlin, Leipzig 9
Performancy Forum Quinennial, Panoply Performance Lab, Brooklyn, NY
2014
7a*11d Festival, OCAD, Toronto, Canada
The Last Brucennial, Bruce High Quality Foundation, New York, NY
100 Performances for the Hole, SOMA Arts, San Francisco, CA
Anya Liftig and Katya Grovkovsky, The Rant, Dixon Place Lounge, New York, NY
Tales of the Warriors, The Glasshouse, Brooklyn, NY
Screening Room or the Return of Andrea Kleine, Chocolate Factory Theater, LIC, NY
2013
Emergency Index Live, Invisible Dog Art Center, Brooklyn, NY
AUNTS Regular, Secret Project Loft, Brooklyn, NY
Conference of Theoretical Theater (Utopian Practices), Culture Push and PPL, Brooklyn, NY
The Kitchen at Independent Art Fair, New York, NY
Lapsody 4, The University of the Arts, Theater Academy, Helsinki Finland,
Commonweath 5, Defibrillator Gallery, Chicago, IL
La Desinvollture de Nos Gangsters, Les Salaisons, Paris, France
Performancy Forum 25: Panoply Performance Lab, Brooklyn, NY
Month of Performance Art-Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Live Art Denmark Festival, Pumpehuest, Copenhagen, Denmark
Peekskill Project V, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY
2012 PPL, Mana Contemporary, Chicago, IL
Prophesy, Defibrillator Gallery, Chicago, IL
Time Body Space Objects-Part 2, Anthony Greaney Gallery, Boston, MA
Worman, (with Yelena Gluzman) part of the Prelude Festival CUNY, New York, NY
Homage to Ana Mendeita, The Glasshouse, Brooklyn, NY
iCan, Art as Social Action, IV Soldiers, Brooklyn, NY
Nature Fetish, Panoply Performance Laboratory, Brooklyn, NY
Brooklyn im Mai, Month of Performance Art, Performmer Stammtisch, Berlin, Germany
Collective/Performative, Exit Art, (with Hector Canoage and Grace Exhibition Space) New York, NY
Simultaneous!, IV Soilders, Brooklyn, NY
Dimanche Rouge, Petit Bain, Paris, France
And Was it Love, Grace Exhibition Space, Brooklyn, NY
Lock Up Performance Art 6, Bethnal Green Cark Park, London, England
Hawk/Dove, Performmer Stammtisch, Berlin, Germany
The Compendium, (collaboration with Remote Control Tomato), Vaudeville Park, Brooklyn, NY
Crisp as a Twenty, Sucking Orange Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Anima/Animus, KuLe Theater Berlin, Germany
Butter Digger, Cuccifritos Gallery, New York, NY
2011
Maximum Perception Performance Festival, English Kills Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Performance Art’s Doppelgangers, Populist Roots and Shadow Selves, Surreal Estate, Brooklyn, NY
The Typhoon Continues and So Do You, Flux Factory, Long Island City, NY
Bob the Pavillion, Untitled, Columbia University, New York, NY
Fountain Art Fair, Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami, FL
Sunday Brunch, P.S. 122, This Red Door Gallery, New York, NY
Conference of Works, Operations, Participations, Panoply Performance Lab, Vaudeville Park, Brooklyn, NY
Micromanagement, Performance Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
Invasions of the Surreal Undergrowth, Grace Exhibition Space, Brooklyn, NY,
Art Salon, with Baby Skin Glove, Culture FiXXX, New York, NY
Unconcious Subconcious, Grace Exhibition Space, Brooklyn, NY
Fleshy February, Experimental Meditation Center of LA, Los Angeles, CA
Art in Odd Places, Adoring Appetite, collaboration with Caitlin Berrigan, New York, NY
Skowhegan Performs, collaboration with Caitlin Berrigan, Socrates Sculpture Park, Queens, NY
Living Walls Performance Festival, Albany, NY
DIMANCHE ROUGE, Networked Performance Event, Brooklyn, NY
LUMEN, Staten Island Performance Art Festival, Staten Island, NY,
Anatomy Riot, Loft Ensemble Space, Los Angeles, CA
ITINERANT Performance Festival, Crossing Art Gallery, Flushing, NY,
AUNTS Regular, Secret Space, Brooklyn, NY
Spread Art, Wicked Awesome, Brooklyn, NY,
Our World is Open, Grace Exhibition Space, Brooklyn, NY
Low Lives 3, Networked Performance Around the World, Live Stream from CPR Brooklyn, NY
Eating Love, Chez Bushwick, BOS, Brooklyn, NY
SITE Fest, Arts in Bushwick, 3 rd Ward and Grace Exhibition Space, Brooklyn, NY
2010
No Soul for Sale, with Casa Tres Patios, TATE Modern, Turbine Hall, London, England
Burlesque Bugs, dir. Michael Freeman perf: The Flea Theater, Chez Bushwick, Joyce Soho, New York, NY
2009
Performance in Crisis, Exit Art, New York, NY
Mnemonic Fool, Wilmington Fringe Festival, directed by Michael Freeman Wilmington, DE
2007
Body Politic, Pathogeograhies, Mess Hall, Chicago, IL
Smut, Galapagos Art Space, Brooklyn, NY
2006
Visualizing TRANSCulture, University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Visual Culture, Madison, WI
2004
d.u.m.b.o. arts festival, curated by d.u.m.b.o. arts center, Brooklyn, NY
A Shot in the Dark, Atlanta Contemporary Arts Center
Selected Film and Video Screenings:
2023
Sleeper/Keeper Semi-Finalist Blow Up Film Fest Chicago (Jan 2023)
Sleeper/Keeper, Sleep is the Love, Joan Jonas of Arc, Film Maudit 2.0 Installation/Showing LA, CA Jan 2023
2022
Sleep is the Love, Magikal Charm Experimental Film Festival, Producers Circle Theater, NYC Dec 2022
Sleep is the Love, Pebbles Underground Film and Video Art Festival, Montreal, Canada October 2022
Please Let Somebody Care About This, Pebbles Underground Film and Video Art Festival, Honorable Mention, Montreal, Canada, October 2022
Please Let Somebody Care About This, Bioeodromo International Experimental Film and Video Festival, Semi-Finalist, Bilbao, Spain, October 2022
Sleeper/Keeper, LA Underground Film Film Forum, LA, CA, October 2022
Sleeper/Keeper, Experimental Forum Film Festival, Honorable Mention, LA, CA, October 2022
Joan Jonas of Arc, We Make Movies Festival, LA, CA October 2022
Sleep is the Love, We Make Movies Festival,, Best Experimental Film Nominee, LA, CA, October 2022
A Very Something or Other, Movement en movement, Screen Dance Festival, Mexico City, October 2022
Joan Jonas of Arc, VASTlab, The Vast Lab, Experimental 2022, LA, CA, November 2022
Sleep is the Love, Gorst Underground Film Festival, Gorst, WA, October 2022
A Very Something or Other, Asheville Fringe Festival, Asheville, NC
Joan Jonas of Arc, Jardin Rouge Festival, Roode Bioscoop, Amsterdam, NL
Please Let Somebody Care About This, Stockholm City Film Festival, Roda Korsets Folkhogskold, Stockholm, Sweden
Please Let Somebody Care About This, Hallucinea Film Festival, Season V, Online, Paris, France
2021
Sleeper/Keeper, We Make Movies Festival, Los Angeles, CA
Sleeper/Keeper, (Edited Version) 2020 Vision-Living Rooms and Loo Rolls Bunyan Museum, Bedford, UK
Sleeper/Keeper, Runt of the Litter, Hackney Wick, UK
Joan Jonas of Arc, ZTV Festival A Go Go, Online/Los Angeles, CA
Joan Jonas of Arc, BIONICAS AUDIOVISUAL FESTIVAL, Barcelona, Spain
Gaze Returned/Detourned, 2021 Nihilist Film Festival, Los Angeles, CA
Gestures 4 (Blue Version) After Hannah Wilke, Micro Acts Artist Film Festival, London, UK
A Very Something Or Other, Burnt Video Art and Experimental Film Festival, Montreal, CA
Gaze Returned/Detourned, Burnt Video Art and Experimental Film Festival, Montreal, CA
A Very Something or Other, Experimental Film Forum Festival, Los Angeles, CA (Honorable Mention)
Gaze Returned/Detourned, DELETE TV, OKTO.TV Austria, London, UK
2020
Sleeper/Keeper, Performancy Forum, St. Louis, MO
Gaze Returned/Detourned, Planet 9 Film Festival, Los Angeles, CA
2019
A Very Something of Other, Indie Visions Film Festival, Charlottesville, VA
Selected Gallery Exhibitions:
2021
Every Woman Biennial, Super Chief NFT Gallery, New York, NY
2019
Every Woman Biennial, La Mama Galleria, New York, NY
2017
Films for a Stadium, Commonwealth Stadium, Lexington, KY
VHS, Vision and Sound, 2017, TANK 203.3040.AT, Neulengbach, Austria
2016
Feminist Art Group, Sustenance, Panoply Performance Lab, Brooklyn, NY
Little Wolf Parade and Screen 22 Presents Anya Liftig, Nottingham, United Kingdom
2015
New Video Works by Anya Liftig, The Low Museum, Atlanta, GA
AIM Biennial, Bronx Museum of Art, Bronx, NY, Summer 2015
“Box Batteries” Film commissioned by Merge Records (released on Spin.com and KEXP.com)
2013
All Good Things, SOMA Arts, San Francisco, CA
A Night of Liftig, Panoply Performance Laboratory, Brooklyn, NY
2012
Approach, Lexington Art League, Lexington, KY
Radical Pulse Performance Festival. Defibrillator Gallery, Chicago, IL
2011
Direct Action 2011, Insitut fur alles mogliche, Berlin, Germany
SPANE, Screening of Art in the Environment, FADO, Toronto Island, Canada,
2009
The Feast, Pittsburg State University, Pittsburg, KS
2008
Mama’s Arts, Buurhuris Bario, Ambachtgaarde, The Hague
MADAD, Art as Social Change, El Dokan, Alexandria, Egypt
Kindergarten, Manhattan Open Center, New York, NY
Hersteria, Metropolitan College of New York,
2007
Body Politic, Open Luggage, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2006
Visualizing TRANSCulture, University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Visual Culture, Madison, WI
Jenny Holzer Selects, Contemporary Arts Center, North Adams, MA
2003
International Human Rights Prize, w/Birgit Ramsauer, Nuremberg, Germany
So Atlanta, Atlanta Contemporary Arts Center, Atlanta, GA
Stalkers: a Kitchen Sink Joint, Mama Buzz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2002
Video Show, Saltworks Gallery, Atlanta, GA,
No Agenda but Their Own, Dalton Gallery Agnes Scott College, Atlanta, GA
All Small, Eyedrum Gallery, Atlanta, GA,
Voices From Home, Appalshop National Touring Exhibition 2001-2002
Education:
Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, Master of Fine Arts, Photography and Performance, 2004
International Center of Photography, New York, NY, Non-Certificate Program, 2000-2001
Yale University, New Haven, CT, Bachelor of Arts, English, concentrations in Theater Studies and Studio Art, 1999
Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance, New York, NY,,Teenage Scholarship Program,1991-1996
Grants, Residencies, Fellowships and Awards:
Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Amherst, VA, January 2022
Sewanee Writers Conference, Sewanee, TN, Nonfiction Attendee, July 2021
Connecticut Council on the Arts, Emerging Artist Fellowship Grant 2021
Arts, Letters, Numbers, Averill Park, NY, February/March 2021
Hambidge Center for the Arts, Rabun Gap, GA, March 2020
Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Amherst, VA March 2019
Kimmel Harding Nelson Center, Nebraska City, NE January 2019
The Corporation of Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY, April 2018
Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Amherst, VA April 2017
The Corporation of Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY August 2015
Atlantic Center for the Arts, Alumni Fellowship, New Smyrna Beach, FL Sept 2015
Artists in the Marketplace 35, Bronx Museum of Arts, Spring 2015
Franklin Furnace Award 2014
Mertz Gilmore Dance Residency, Center for Performance Research, Brooklyn, NY October 2014
Atlantic Center for the Arts, Mertz Gilmore Dance Grant, New Smyrna Beach, FL May 2014
MacDowell, Petersbourgh, NH, February 2013
Flux Projects, Atlanta, GA, Public Art Commission, 2010-2012
Casa Tres Patios/University of Antioquia, Artist Residency, Medellin, Colombia, March 2009
Fieldspace, Summer Workshop Space Grant, The Field, New York, NY, 2008
Vermont Studio Center, Artist Fellowship, October 2007, January 2010
University of Chicago, Visiting Artist-Body Politic, May 2007
Vail Visiting Artist Fellowship, Denison University, Spring 2007
Ernest Welch Graduate Award in Photography, Georgia State University. 2004, 2003
Graduate Teaching Fellowship, Georgia State University 2002-2003
Nexus Press, The Contemporary, Internship Fellowship, Summer 2002
Martha Wren Gaines Fellowship for Research in the Lucy Draper ERA Archive, Summer 2002
Adrian Van Sinderan Book Collecting Prize, 1999 and 1997, Beineke Library, Yale University
Richter Summer Travel Grant to France, Morse College, Summer 1998, Yale University
Sudler Grant for the Performing Arts, 1997-1998, Yale University
St Anthony Hall Educational Grant, Spring 1997, Yale University
Discover Card National Tribute Award (one of nine in the nation) $15,000 scholarship, May 1994
Lectures, Workshops and Curatorial:
Curator, Emergency INDEX Launch, February 2019, Queens Museum, Queens, NY
Visiting Artist and Critic, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, December 2018, Milwaukee, WI
Visiting Artist, Georgia State University, October 2018
Curator, Emergency INDEX Live, November 2017, The Kitchen, New York, NY
Visiting Artist, “Performance as Consumption” TALKaCTIVE Series, Queens Museum, December 2016
Panelist, “Documentation in Performance,” Wendy’s Subway, Brooklyn Academy of Music, December 2016
Visiting Critic, New Dance Alliance, Lift/Off, New York, NY, April 2016/March 2017/April 2018/April 2019
Rumor As Document, Performative Lecture, “The Alternate Document” Symposium, University of Lincoln, United Kingdom, February 2016
Lecture, Lapsody 4, The University of the Arts, Theater Academy, Helsinki, Finland, May 2013
Visiting Artist Lecture, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, March 2013
Visiting Artist Lecture, MacDowell in the Schools, Peterborough, NH, February 2013
Contributing Editor, Emergency Index 2012/2013/2014/2015/2016/2017/2018, Ugly Duckling Presse
Associate Curator, Month of Performance Art-Berlin, May 2013
Artist Talk, The New School for Social Research, NY, NY Performance Practices, Nov 2012
Artist Talk, Flux Projects Commission Grant, Whitespace Gallery, Atlanta, GA, July 2012
Curator, New Voices in Live Performance,Center for Performance Research, Brooklyn,NY June 2012, 2013
Artist Talk, Re-Performance on the Brink, Atlanta Contemporary Arts Center, The Lucky Penny and Flux Projects, Atlanta, GA April 2012
Panelist, OVADA and Roves and Roams present Anya Liftig, Oxford, England, February 2012
Performance and Lecture, Conney Conference on Jewish Arts, University of Wisconsin-Madison, April 2011
Performer/Panelist, “Performance, Re-Performance and All-That” Artists Talks on Art, SOHO20 Gallery, NY, NY December 2010
Visiting Artist Lecture, Atlanta Contemporary Arts Center, Atlanta, GA, June 2010
Visiting Artist Lecture, University Art Museum, Pittsburg State University, March 2010
Working in Arts Today, Panel Discussion, Association of Yale Alumni, Yale University, New Haven, CT June 2009
Visiting Artist Performance Workshop, University of Antioquia, Medellin, Colombia, March 2009
Visiting Artist Lecture, Casa Tres Patios, Medellin, Colombia, March 2009
Jews, Women and the Arts, Joseph Slifka Center, Yale University, New Haven, CT, February, 2009
Visiting Artist Lecture, Quinnipiac University, Hamden, CT December 2008
Visiting Artist Lecture, Norwalk Community College, December 2008
Visiting Artist Lecture, Oglethorpe University, Atlanta, GE, October 2008
Visiting Artist Lecture, Denison University, Granville, OH, March 2007
Visiting Artist Performance Workshop, Denison University, Granville, OH, March-April 2007