Anya Liftig is a performance artist and writer. Her work has been exhibited at TATE Modern, MOMA, Center for Performance Research, Panoply Performance Lab, FADO Toronto, Queens Museum, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Rose Art Museum, Movement Research at Judson Church, Performer Stammtisch Berlin, Performance Space London, Abrons Art Center and other venues. 

In “The Anxiety of Influence” she dressed like Marina Abramovic and sat across from her all day during “The Artist is Present” exhibition. Liftig’s work has been published and written about in New York Times Magazine, BOMB, The Wall Street Journal, Vogue Italia, PAJ, New York, Critical Correspondence, Theater, Art Papers, Hyperallergic, and others.

Liftig’s experimental film work has been screened in festivals in the UK, Canada, Spain, France, Sweden, and the Netherlands. She is a 2021 Connecticut Council for the Arts Emerging Arts Fellow in Creative Writing and a recipient of awards from Franklin Furnace and the Mertz Gilmore Foundation. Liftig has received grant and residency support from MacDowell, Yaddo, Virginia Center for Creative Arts, New Museum, Bronx Museum of Art, and Flux Projects Atlanta. 

Her first book, Holler Rat, a memoir, was published by Abrams in 2023 and was USA Today best seller.