Anya Kashina (b. 1993) is an artist living and working in London, UK.
Resident Artist at The Bomb Factory Marylebone.
Education
2024 - 2025 MA Fine Art, City & Guilds of London Art School, London, UK
2011 - 2015 BA (Hons) Fine Art, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
Past Group Exhibitions
2025
MA Graduate Show, City & Guilds of London Art School, London, UK (Installation images)
2024
All Paradises, S&T at JDG Gallery, New York City, USA
What Surrounds You, Donne Gallery, Great Portland Street, London, UK (Installation images)
Bury My Songs, Terrace Gallery, London, UK
2023
Mutton Shoppe, 99 Kingsway, London, UK
Works on Paper 5, online at Blue Shop Gallery, London, UK
Seventeen, The Bomb Factory Marylebone, 206 Marylebone Road, London, UK
Inaugural, The Bomb Factory Marylebone, 206 Marylebone Road, London, UK
2022
Koppel X, The Koppel Project, Piccadilly Circus, London, UK
2021
A Palace Spinning on Duck Feet, Copeland Gallery, London, UK
Every Woman Biennial, Copeland Gallery, London, UK
2020
No Such Thing As A Free Lunch, The Koppel Project, Lethaby Building, London, UK
2019
The Feeling's Mutual, Art Licks Weekend, The Rectory Projects, London, UK
I Know That You Know, Wells Project Space, London, UK
2018
PULP II, The Rectory Projects, London, UK
3018, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
Jealous Needs You, Jealous Gallery, London, UK
PULP, The Rectory Projects, London, UK
URL / IRL LOVE, Muddy Yard, Brixton, London, UK
Awards
2024 Principal's Scholarship Award, City & Guilds of London Art School
2024 William Gibbs Trust Grant
2013 NADFAS Grant for Study
2012 RBA Scholarship
Anya Kashina makes paintings that destabilise representation in favour of affect. Her process begins with photographs or drawings of objects and spaces seen and felt, but the resulting paintings move beyond depiction. Through techniques such as layering, stencilling, and repetition, the initial image is disrupted and transformed. Marks become modes of thought and the painting evolves through a series of layered processes. What emerges is not a clear or fixed image, but a trace of perception in flux. Each work becomes a spatial experiment, something to enter into and explore.
Kashina is drawn to making work that resists fixed meaning. Instead, her paintings occupy a space where meaning remains unstable, shifting with perception. Surface and illusion fold into one another, inviting ambiguity and uncertainty. Her process embraces the interplay between intention and accident, allowing unexpected elements to shape the work.
For Kashina, painting is an ongoing dialogue between artist and medium, viewer and artwork, and between inner and outer states. These layered, affective exchanges open up a space where perception shifts and the imagination is activated.