Anya Liftig

Anya Liftig is a performance artist and writer. Her works have been exhibited at TATE Modern, MOMA, Queens Museum, Movement Research, Performer Stammtisch Berlin, Performance Space London, and many other venues around the world. As a dancer and actress. Liftig’s work has been published and written about in the New York Times Magazine, BOMB, The Wall Street Journal, Vogue Italia, PAJ, New York, Theater Magazine and others. Her experimental film and video work has been screened in festivals globally. She is a graduate of Yale University and Georgia State University, where she earned her MFA in studio art. She is a Connecticut Council for the Arts Emerging Arts Fellow, a Franklin Furnace Awardee, and a MacDowell and Yaddo fellow. Her first book, a memoir entitled, Holler Rat, was released by Abrams this August.