Anya Kivarkis

Anya Kivarkis is currently Assistant Professor and Area Head of Jewelry and Metalsmithing at the University of Oregon in Eugene. She received a BFA in Jewelry & Metalsmithing from the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana, and an MFA from the State University of New York in New Paltz in 2004. In 2007, she was the recipient of the Sienna Gallery Emerging Artist Award, and presented the solo exhibition titled, ‘Blind Spot’. Recent exhibitions include The Decorative Impulse at the Villa Terrace Museum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, L’education Sentimentale at the Solidor Art Space in Cagnes sur Mer, France, Metalsmith Magazine’s Exhibition in Print, ‘Neo-Palatial: Objects of Virtue and Vice’, and “COLLECT’ at Saatchi Gallery in London. She was a recipient of the 2008 Oregon Arts Commission Individual Artists Fellowship, and the 2007 Rotasa Foundation grant to support the publication of ‘The Thinking Body’, an exhibition co-curated with Kate Wagle. Her work is included in collections such as the Tacoma Art Museum, the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, The Rotasa Foundation, and the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art.

From Sienna Patti Website