Anya Mokhova (b.1987) is a contemporary artist based in London. After receiving her BA degree in Design, she went on to complete a Graduate Diploma and then an MA in Art at Chelsea College of Art and Design in 2011. For the past several years, Anya has successfully merged her career as an artist with her work as a sculpture tutor in contemporary art. Since graduating, Anya has attended summer schools at the Slade School of Fine Art in 2024, the Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts in 2016, and the Royal College of Art in London in 2017. Her recent exhibitions include Shtager&Shch Gallery and Shoreditch Arts Club in London, the Jewish Museum in Moscow, and the Tbilisi Art Fair in Georgia. She was commissioned by world brands, property developers, and media.

Anya’s practice is centered around notions of historical narratives and precedents, which she reinvents, linking them to personal stories. She often starts by developing ideas around a certain theme, but then the majority of work happens through experimentation with materials and processes. She uses natural tallow, wax, soap, essential oils, and jelly, and merges them with acrylic, resin, and silicone. She often interprets classical techniques, such as incrustation, engraving, and casting. These complex processes enable her to develop her visual language, often inviting viewers to engage with objects through vision, touch, smell, and sometimes even taste. In her work, she aims to question the boundaries between the real and the metaphysical, and she proposes exploring mystery and fantasy within the mundane through visual, sensual, and imaginative perceptions of artist-created objects and spaces.