Anna an interdisciplinary artist who transforms light, sculpture, and space into co-creative installations. Her experimental practice weaves together ancient craft traditions and contemporary technology to understand the contemporary biological experience. ​​Anna's work emerges from an intuitive dialogue between materials and body. She hand-cuts bright wool into spontaneous forms—some remaining textile, others transform into bronze or glass through her reimagined lost-wax process. She uses shadows of these forms like formative tools in drawing, astronomy, and psychology. Through photography, she challenges perceptions of time, material, and scale. Light becomes a living medium vibrating between body and object, parsing out the physical sense of presence and materiality. She invites direct interaction and playful discovery to reveal
the pleasure of full-body engagement—perhaps the most essential element of her practice.
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Anna was born in Moscow and raised in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, where she developed early passions for visual arts and rhythmic gymnastics. Following her immigration to the United States in 1995, she earned degrees in finance and law and practiced in Palo Alto, California. In 2021, Anna relocated to Richmond, Virginia, where she began to study sculpture at VCUArts. She discovered glassworking and other studio practices that aligned with her interest in material exploration and high-temperature processes. She earned her BFA in Sculpture + Extended Media and continues developing interdisciplinary work incorporating light, sound, fiber, metal, and glass.
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Anna has received notable recognition, including Dean's Best in Show at VCU's 2024 Juried Undergraduate Exhibition and the Vikki Katel Memorial Scholarship. Her research has been supported through VCU grants examining feminist art practices and the social psychology of childbirth. She has been awarded a fellowship at Virginia Center for the Creative Arts at Mount St. Angelo, Amherst, VA and selected as an artist in residence by KALA Art Institute in Berkeley, California in 2025.