Anna Kovina Artist

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Anna Kovina Artist

Anna is an interdisciplinary artist exploring introspection, somatic awareness, and pleasure in sculpture, photographs, and multimedia installations.

Combines traditional materials with new media to create immersive and interactive artworks. I am an interdisciplinary artist working with themes of introspection and somatic awareness through sculpture and immersive installations.

06/03/2026

Newsletter about claiming American voice, new venue for , and a proud mom moment is up on Substack .

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05/26/2026

So excited to be included in this show. A video and a still photograph from my light installations to contribute to the American Voice as small proof that no one has a monopoly on it.

I Am Not What You Think photograph was taken during from a movement collaboration with Julia Sterling inside my Today Was Tomorrow Yesterday light installation at KALA Art Institute, Berkeley, CA in 2025. The body in menopause struggles to separate from the society’s strictest taboos, refusing to remain contained by a fixed identity. Engulfed by projected ideas, but not easily contained.

This video compilation is from a movement collaboration with RADAR Dance inside my Thermal Cavity light installation at Coalescence, Richmond, VA in 2025. Event videography: Ross Gerhold.The right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness was news to me when, in 1995, I arrived in the United States from the newly defunct USSR. I was seventeen, alone, without English. I ran with the intoxicating idea.

I became a lawyer, then farmer and a stay-at-home mom of three. Inspired by their creativity, I began studying sculpture formally at forty-two. All that was easy. The hard part is now quietly reclaiming a personal identity subsumed by motherhood. This intimate process claims freedom as a daily practice, in my kitchen and in the basement studio, between pickups and drop-offs.

05/09/2026

Working with Sense and Sensibility and making progress with a bigger sculpture in plaster. Hope Ms. Austen approves! Giving plaster of Paris center stage after it's been holding up others in mother molds for years. Time to play the lead part - it too is a classic.

Bonus — my welding seems to be holding up to support the delicate extensions.

Another bonus - no filter, no make up 😯

04/22/2026

Been working on Not So Little Any More (working title)

Love it when my impulse to make takes up actual space in the world. My little welding machine opened up a world of new possibilities. Bigger armature — bigger sculpture — bigger mess. A stronger backbone makes you bolder, right? It also takes a lot more plaster tho. Always more plaster 🤍 Lucky to have such an awesome studio assistant 😂
Plaster of Paris, 20.1 x 15 x 17 inches.

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03/26/2026

Long, long time ago, back in December, a snowstorm couldn't stop us - deep gratitude to and Betty Skeen for trusting my work and for bringing live sound for the first time into my installation. Thank you to everyone who stepped into this shared space on a dark, cold evening to make beautiful magic together and to for holding the space. Hope for more of these moments of collaboration and exploration!

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Thermal Cavity: Light, Body, and Sound Lab�- December 5 at Coalescence

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03/04/2026

Funny how so much of new ideas come from old experiences. I am giving credit where it is due - and it's my respect/love/obsession with wool. You got to start with something familiar, listen, observe, and let it rip and go for a ride into the previously unknown. Lucky to have met some awesome women along the way to join me 😍🥹🥰

02/20/2026

Introducing a series about how I made my photographs that make up my Breathe collection.

This is for everyone who asked and got lost around step 6-7 or wasn't even sure what to ask, here we go.

The short answer is: sculpture.

The long answer: Everything else — grab a strong coffee. I've been making work with my hands for a long time. Slowly, materially, in ways that resist the idea that the fastest route is the best one. The basic formula is "hands + materials + intuition × repetition." It reliably leads to hope, frustration, and occasionally something honest and real. Risky adventure, results not predictable.

The Breathe prints began as wool. They moved through the VCUArts foundry and glass kilns, through projection installations and collaborations with dancers as they became photographs on a wall. That process took years, two residencies, and a great many slightly crazy, generous, talented people who were willing to join me in it.

I've been asked to explain these images many times. I'm never quite sure where to start. So I made a series instead.

I've called it The Wrong Way: A Photography Tutorial. It is too long for the internet. I made it anyway. Hope you'll follow along!

Part 1 Monday.

02/17/2026

Hey check out my reel, not an easy feat for those of us tech challenged:) And come see my prints in person! Just a couple of weeks left to see them at where they have been quietly disrupting the peace and adding an extra jolt to their already excellent coffee!

More info on my website https://www.annakovina.com/breathe

Calling this collection of images Breathe, ‘cause you know, sometimes it’s all and best you can do, and that’s enough. (Though my recent asthma flare up the title gained a more dire meaning.)

Installation photo credit to

"Live life like it's the last breath you take, for that breath is the whole essence of living."
— (possibly) Robert Frost

01/31/2026

Rare and Late Newsletter 01.2026 - https://mailchi.mp/annakovina/rare-and-late-newsletter-012026 New year, new newsletter!
Rare and Late 01.2026 just dropped. Putting letters out into the world is a first for me and feels a touch vulnerable. But I have Matilda, a trusty studio assistant, and she said not to fuss, just do it.
I'd love your thoughts. Sign up via link in bio, share, and let me know if you too are coloring outside the lines.
XO, Anna

12/04/2025

Had an amazing rehearsal exploring light and shadow play through improvisational movement. I really really love working within collaborative relationships, especially with this incredibly talented and daring group of dancers ❤️ SOOO Ready for Dec. 5!

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