Anna Livna

Anna Makarova (artist name Anna Livna).

Life is an attempt to balance in flight, to find support and security.
“Know yourself, and you will know the gods and the universe,” says the statement on the ancient Apollo temple wall in Delphi, Greece.
Self-knowledge is the core of my art concept.

I reinterpret my personal experience as a woman, as an artist, as a migrant in the context of Campbell’s “Hero’s Journey”, the Monomyth concept. These are the spirals of my path: I go to the frontier, to the unknown when I feel the need for change, go through challenges, and come out of them renewed. I explore the Hero’s Journey in the artworks of great creators such as Egon Schiele, Gustav Klimt, Mikhail Vrubel, Andrei Tarkovsky, and others.

Migration is one of the themes that I explore in my art, the symbolic death of the past, rebirth in a new quality, adaptation to a new environment, the search for identity. I am part of Russian history and I am part of the modern US history as a migrant. I leave behind the feeling of insecurity and take with me my cultural code, fortitude, courage and willingness to face challenges, the intention to live happily and fight for myself, and I also leave a place for faith in miracles.

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Academy of Architecture and Art, Yekaterinburg, Russia
2004 – 2008

Classical Art School, Perm, Russia
1996 – 2001

Selected Projects / Public Art / Civic Art:
2026
Civic Art Proposal (Shortlisted) — LA County Department of Arts and Culture, Los Angeles, CA

Exhibitions:
2025
Gestalt Project Space — Group Exhibition
bG Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

2024
Unlocked Identities — Group Exhibition
Perseus Gallery, New York, USA

Unlocked Identities — Virtual Group Exhibition (Times Square Broadcasting)
HMVC Gallery, New York, USA

Not! An Art Fair — Group Exhibition
ShockBoxx Gallery, Hermosa Beach, CA

Gestalt Project Space — Group Exhibition
bG Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

Faces & Figures — Online Group Exhibition
Las Laguna Art Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA