Anya Liftig’s work has been featured at the TATE Modern in London, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, The New Museum in New York, Trouw Amsterdam (a collaboration with the Stedelijk Museum), the Center for Performance Research in Brooklyn, Highways Performance Space in Santa Monica, Lapsody4 Finland, Fado Toronto, the 7a11d International Performance Festival, the Performance Art Institute-San Francisco, the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, The Chocolate Factory, The Kitchen at the Independent Art Fair, Performer Stammtisch Berlin, OVADA, Joyce Soho and many other venues around the globe. In The Anxiety of Influence she dressed exactly like the artist Marina Abramovic and sat across from her all day during "The Artist is Present” exhibition. Her work has been published and written about in The New York Times Magazine, BOMB, The Wall Street Journal, Vogue Italia, Next Magazine, Now and Then, Stay Thirsty, New York Magazine, Gothamist, Jezebel, Hyperallergic, Bad at Sports, The Other Journal, and many others. She is a graduate of Yale University and Georgia State University and has received grant and residency support from MacDowell, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, The New Museum, the Mertz Gilmore Foundation, Flux Projects, University of Antioquia and Casa Tres Patios-Medellin, Colombia. She is the recipient of a 2014-2015 Franklin Furnace Award for a series of interventions in museums throughout New York, mimicking the gestures of animals depicted in Old Master paintings and sculptures.
Recent performances and installations include: Screening Room, or, The Return of Andrea Kleine (as revealed through a re-enactment of a 1977 television program about a "long and baffling" film by Yvonne Rainer) at The Chocolate Factory in Long Island City, Queens; a performance/dance collaboration with Tess Dworman at the Center for Performance Research; the AIM Biennial at the Bronx Museum of the Arts; and AUNTSforcamera at The New Museum.
