Anna Afonina is a young artist of new generation. She was born in 1989 in Tolyatti, graduated
from Tolyatti School of Arts. Anna has come to the art world from the field of graphic design,
she started to seriously interest in painting only at the age of 20. She successfully graduated from
Royal Academy of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg with easel graphic specialty in 2017. Afonina has
flawlessly learned this “craft” and the figurativeness of Anna’s works is one of the most obvious
influence of the traditional academic education. Anna has decided to continued her art education
and has come to Rodchenko Art School for a creation’s freedom and breaking patterns.
Artist works with paintings, using mixed technique: in her works oil and aerosol paints and
markers combine in harmony. At the moment the painting is the main focus of Anna’s work.
Nevertheless, she is ready for experiments and she is thinking about the using of inscriptions and
sound in her art. There is a lot ofautobiographical as Anna recognizes. Her art primarily based on
private memories, feelings and experiences which are more negative. When others revel in
suffering and start to disassociate, Anna fells special an artistic renaissance. For her happiness
isn’t a source of inspiration but a pause, a deceleration. Despite that Afonina has just started her
way in the contemporary art world, she has already made a statement on Russian and foreign art
scenes. Anna has participated in many exhibitions including international projects such as
“Christ’s Body” (Tapsony, Hungary) and personal exhibitions in Saint-Petersburg and Moscow.
Anna Afonina's works are in the private collections
Personal exhibitions
2022 If barking sounds. pop/off/art. Moscow
2021 It will live and remain. Gallery «Peresvetov pereulok». Saint-Petersburg
2020 I have already been here. MYTH gallery. Saint-Petersburg
2019 What if I find? Workroom Daypyat. Voronezh
2019 Mayday mayday mayday. Smirnov and Sorokin Foundation. Moscow
2019 Make a normal face. Studio «Nepo». Saint-Petersburg
2016 Personal exhibition. Gallery «Pu-Er». Saint-Petersburg
2015 Fpundation «Art Youth». Gallery «Tishina». Saint-Petersburg
2014 SUMMER. Repin State Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. Saint-
Petersburg
Group exhibitions
2021 Explicit Movements. Cultural Center Gromov. Saint-Petersburg
2021 Hidden Places. Foundation MaxArt. Moscow
2021 Magic Fisher. Storage 17. Saint-Petersburg
2021 «I don’t know if the Earth is spinning or not…». Online Exhibition
2020 Stranger stories. MYTH gallery. Saint-Petersburg
2019 Focal Points. Галерея «Na Peschanoy gallery». Moscow
2019 Offline/Online. Cultural Center Gromov. Saint-Petersburg
2019 Second International Print Biennale. Yerevan
2019 Artefacts. Ryabushinsky’s Estate. Vyshniy Volochok
2019 Look above, the sky is falling. MYTH gallery. Saint-Petersburg
2019 Different inside the whole. Cube Moscow. Moscow
2019 Breakthough. Cultural Foundation «Ekaterina». Moscow
2018 Takeda. Overcoming. CEH «Manezh». Saint-Petersburg
2018 SAM FAIR. Street Art Museum. Saint-Petersburg
2018 Exhibition of finalists of the Untitled prize. Russian Museum of Decorative Applied and
Folk Art. Moscow
2017 STARTinART’2017. Gallery «К35». Moscow
2017 She. Russian Culture Center. Beijing. China
2016 Letter in Art. Exhibition of finalists of the Mikhail Shemyakin Foundation. Saint-
Petersburg
2016 Exhibition of participants the residence House of the Dragon. Chengdu. China
2016 Rectors Choice. Repin State Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture.
Saint-Peterburg
