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Anya Liftig

Anya Liftig was born in Norwalk, CT in 1977. Her artwork and writing has been published in Now and Then, Green Mountain Review, Mix Magazine, Heeb Magazine, The Yale Alumni Magazine, Science Scope, Southern Exposure, MENSA Journal, Public Culture, The New York Times Magazine, Carolina Quarterly and many more. She has performed and exhibited nationally and internationally, including shows at The University of Wisconsin, Atlanta Contemporary Arts Center, The Tank, Chashama, HERE Arts Center, Mess Hall, The University of Chicago, Denison University, Art Basel Miami, Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, White Space, Galapagos, Joyce Soho, The Flea, Youngblood Gallery, Casa Tres Patios, Saltworks, Abrons Arts Center, Movement Research, TATE Modern and many more.

Her most recent work, "The Anxiety of Influence" was a guerrilla intervention into Marina Abramovic's "The Artist is Present" at MOMA. Liftig sat directly across from Abramovic all day, dressed exactly like the elder artist. She is a graduate of Yale University and Georgia State University and currently resides in Brooklyn, New York.

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"Anya Liftig." Video History Project, Experimental Television Center, 2011. https://www.videohistoryproject.org/anya-liftig.

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Anya Liftig, born in Norwalk, CT in 1977, is an artist and writer whose work has been published in outlets including Now and Then, Green Mountain Review, Mix Magazine, The Yale Alumni Magazine, Public Culture and The New York Times Magazine. She has performed and exhibited nationally and internationally at venues such as the University of Wisconsin, Atlanta Contemporary Arts Center, Art Basel Miami, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia and TATE Modern. Her recent work The Anxiety of Influence was a guerrilla intervention into Marina Abramovic's The Artist is Present at MOMA in which she sat across from Abramovic all day dressed like the elder artist; she holds degrees from Yale University and Georgia State University and resides in Brooklyn, New York.

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Last modified 18 June 2011