Anya Liftig received her Bachelor of Arts in English in 1999 from Yale University. She completed her Masters of Fine Arts at Georgia State University in 2004. She also has a certificate of advanced work from the International Center for Photography, which she earned in 2001.
Anya Liftig's work focuses on the body and its relationship to other bodies, other people, and the built environment. She is perhaps best known for her 2010 performance entitled "The Anxiety of Influence," in which she sat directly across from artist Marina Abramovic for most of the day at the Museum of Modern Art (New York) during Abramovic's performance entitled "The Artist Is Present."
2014
Twin High Maintenance Machines, Panoply Performance Lab, Brooklyn, NY2013
All the Animals in the British Museum, AliKati Projects, London, England2012
I’m a Groucho Marxist, Public Art Performance Intervention, Flux Projects Commission, Atlanta, GACrisp As a Twenty, [performance space], London, EnglandThe Human Factor, OVADA and Roves and Roams, Oxford, EnglandDeliverance (w Clifford Owens, Laura Ginn, Jayson Munsson) Atlanta Contemporary Arts Center, Atlanta, GA2011
Falling/Flying, Highways Performance Space, Santa Monica, CADitties for the Dirty War, Center for Performance Research, (collaboration with Low Lives 3) Brooklyn, NY2010
The Anxiety of Influence, Guerilla Intervention into The Artist is Present at Museum of Modern Art, New York, NYThe Nothings, University Art Museum, Pittsburg State University, Pittsburg, KS2009
What Might Have Been Lost, Middlesex Community College, Middletown, CTJewbilly, Eyedrum, Atlanta, GAAmor Y Problems, Casa Tres Patios, Medellin, Colombia,Jewbilly, Joseph Slifka Center, Yale University, New Haven, CT2008
Rejection, INCUBATEChicago, Chicago, ILDistrict Nest Street, Chashama Art Foundation, New York, NY2006
Collusion, The Tank, New York, NYWoven Room, collaboration with Angus Galloway, Part of The American Living Room Festival,HERE Arts Center, 3LGdDog Art and Technology Center, New York, NY2004
Unravel, Garage Projects, Stable 1897, Atlanta, GAEverything I Own, Youngblood Gallery, Atlanta, GAself-evidence, MFA Thesis Show, Gallery I, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA2003
Baby Invasion, Eyedrum, Atlanta, GA2000
Ganderbill Holler, Abrons Art Center, Henry Street Settlement, New York, NY2015
Making It, Difficult, Neutral Ground Contemporary Art Forum, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada2014
The Last Brucennial, Bruce High Quality Foundation, New York, NYMovement Research Festival, Issue Project Room, Brooklyn, NYBushwick Open Studios, Spread Art, Brooklyn, Y2013
All Good Things, SOMA Arts, San Francisco, CAA Night of Liftig, Panoply Performance Laboratory, Brooklyn, NY2012
Approach, Lexington Art League, Lexington, KYRadical Pulse Performance Festival. Defibrillator Gallery, Chicago, IL2011
Direct Action 2011, Insitut fur alles mogliche, Berlin, GermanySPANE, Screening of Art in the Environment, FADO, Toronto Island, Canada2009
The Feast, Pittsburg State University, Pittsburg, KS2008
Mama’s Arts, Buurhuris Bario, Ambachtgaarde, The HagueMADAD, Art as Social Change, El Dokan, Alexandria, EgyptKindergarten, Manhattan Open Center, New York, NYHersteria, Metropolitan College of New York, New York, NY2007
Body Politic, Open Luggage, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL2006
Visualizing TRANSCulture, University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Visual Culture, Madison, WIJenny Holzer Selects, Contemporary Arts Center, North Adams, MA2003
International Human Rights Prize, w/Birgit Ramsauer, Nuremberg, GermanySo Atlanta, Atlanta Contemporary Arts Center, Atlanta, GAStalkers: a Kitchen Sink Joint, Mama Buzz Gallery, San Francisco, CA2002
Video Show, Saltworks Gallery, Atlanta, GA,No Agenda but Their Own, Dalton Gallery Agnes Scott College, Atlanta, GAAll Small, Eyedrum Gallery, Atlanta, GA,Voices From Home, Appalshop National Touring Exhibition 2001-20022015
Liftig and I, w/ Tess Dworman, Center for Performance Research, Brooklyn, NY2014
Softer, Softest, Delicious Spectacle, Washington, D.C.LUMEN, Staten Island Arts, Staten Island, NYAnya Liftig and Sophia Cleary in Performance, Aux Projects, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PATHROW, Chocolate Factory, Long Island City, NY7a-11d Festival, Fado, Toronto, Canada100 Performances for the Hole, SOMA Arts, San Francisco, CA2013
Emergency Index Live, Invisible Dog Art Center, Brooklyn, NYConference of Theoretical Theater (Utopian Practices), Culture Push and PPL, Brooklyn, NYThe Kitchen at Independent Art Fair, New York, NYLapsody 4, The University of the Arts, Theater Academy, Helsinki Finland,Roots in Kentucky, Defibrillator Gallery, Chicago, ILLa Desinvollture de Nos Gangsters, Les Salaisons, Paris, FrancePerformancy Forum 25: Panoply Performance Lab, Brooklyn, NYMonth of Performance Art-Berlin, Berlin, GermanyLive Art Denmark Festival, Pumpehuest, Copenhagen, DenmarkPeekskill Project V, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY2012
PPL, Mana Contemporary, Chicago, ILProphesy, Defibrillator Gallery, Chicago, ILTime Body Space Objects-Part 2, Anthony Greaney Gallery, Boston, MAWorman, (with Yelena Gluzman) part of the Prelude Festival CUNY, New York, NYHomage to Ana Mendeita, The Glasshouse, Brooklyn, NYiCan, Art as Social Action, IV Soldiers, Brooklyn, NYNature Fetish, Panoply Performance Laboratory, Brooklyn, NYBrooklyn im Mai, Month of Performance Art, Performmer Stammtisch, Berlin, GermanyCollective/Performative, Exit Art, (with Hector Canoage and Grace Exhibition Space) New York, NYSimultaneous!, IV Soldiers, Brooklyn, NYDimanche Rouge, Petit Bain, Paris, FranceAnd Was it Love, Grace Exhibition Space, Brooklyn, NYLock Up Performance Art 6, Bethnal Green Cark Park, London, EnglandHawk/Dove, Performmer Stammtisch, Berlin, GermanyThe Compendium, (collaboration with Remote Control Tomato), Vaudeville Park, Brooklyn, NYCrisp as a Twenty, Sucking Orange Gallery, Berlin, GermanyAnima/Animus, KuLe Theater Berlin, GermanyButter Digger, Cuccifritos Gallery, New York, NY2011
Maximum Perception Performance Festival, English Kills Gallery, Brooklyn, NYPerformance Art’s Doppelgangers, Populist Roots and Shadow Selves, Surreal Estate, Brooklyn, NYThe Typhoon Continues and So Do You, Flux Factory, Long Island City, NYBob the Pavillion, Untitled, Columbia University, New York, NYFountain Art Fair, Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami, FLSunday Brunch, P.S. 122, This Red Door Gallery, New York, NYConference of Works, Operations and Participations, Panoply Performance Lab, Vaudeville Park, Brooklyn, NYMicromanagement, Performance Art Institute, San Francisco, CAInvasions of the Surreal Undergrowth, Grace Exhibition Space, Brooklyn, NY,Art Salon, with Baby Skin Glove, Culture FiXXX, New York, NYUnconscious Subconscious, Grace Exhibition Space, Brooklyn, NYFleshy February, Experimental Meditation Center of LA, Los Angeles, CAArt in Odd Places, Adoring Appetite, collaboration with Caitlin Berrigan, New York, NYSkowhegan Performs, collaboration with Caitlin Berrigan, Socrates Sculpture Park, Queens, NYLiving Walls Performance Festival, Albany, NYDIMANCHE ROUGE, Networked Performance Event, Brooklyn, NYLUMEN, Staten Island Performance Art Festival, Staten Island, NY,Anatomy Riot, Loft Ensemble Space, Los Angeles, CAITINERANT Performance Festival, Crossing Art Gallery, Flushing, NY,AUNTS Regular, Secret Space, Brooklyn, NYSpread Art, Wicked Awesome, Brooklyn, NY,Our World is Open, Grace Exhibition Space, Brooklyn, NYLow Lives 3, Networked Performance Around the World,Eating Love, Chez Bushwick, BOS, Brooklyn, NYSITE Fest, Arts in Bushwick, 3 rd Ward and Grace Exhibition Space, Brooklyn, NY2010
No Soul for Sale, with Casa Tres Patios, TATE Modern, Turbine Hall, London, EnglandBurlesque Bugs, dir. Michael Freeman perf: The Flea Theater, Chez Bushwick, Joyce Soho, New York, NY2009
Performance in Crisis, Exit Art, New York, NYMnemonic Fool, Wilmington Fringe Festival, directed by Michael Freeman Wilmington, DE2007
Body Politic, Pathogeograhies, Mess Hall, Chicago, ILSmut, Galapagos Art Space, Brooklyn, NY2006
Visualizing TRANSCulture, University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Visual Culture, Madison, WI2004
d.u.m.b.o. arts festival, curated by d.u.m.b.o. arts center, Brooklyn, NYA Shot in the Dark, Atlanta Contemporary Arts Center, Atlanta, GA
