Anya Gorkova
b. 1998, Russia
Anya Gorkova (b.1998), Moscow, lives and works in London. In 2022 they graduated from Central Saint Martins; University of the Art London with a distinction in MA Contemporary Photography. Recent group exhibitions include Allow Cookies (Kupfer Projects, 2023). Recent commissioned performances and events include Tate Film, Interior: The Voice of dreams (Tate Modern, London, 2023), HÄN Archive; Queer heritage of Tove Jansson in collaboration with Finnish Institute (London, 2022), Anya Gorkova Edition prints for fashion designer René Scheibenbauer (London, 2022). Anya is included the upcoming publications: Flora Dunster and Theo Gordon, Photography: A Queer History, (London: Octopus/Ilex, 2024), and Flora Dunster, “Gender, Identity & Queer Theory in Photography Today,” in The Routledge Companion to Global Photographies, eds. Lucy Soutter and Duncan Wooldridge (London: Routledge, 2024).
Awards and nominations include: The Jane Rapley Scholarship, as a talent of all master courses at Central Saint Martins (2021), and Shortlisting for the LVMH Maison/0 sustainability award, (2022). Winner of the Dean’s prize (2022). Their graduation work was acquired by the Central Saint Martins Museum. Gorkova has been featured in Frieze Magazine, Evening Standard (UK), Dazed (UK), Vogue (US), Numero Berlin (DE), Kaltblat Magazine (DE), Replica Magazine (UK), Wallpaper Magazine (UK), Somesuch Magazine (UK/US), Clash Magazine (UK).