Anna Choutova is an artist and curator working in London. She is a Research Fellow at Slade School of Fine Art, from where she also holds an MFA in Painting. She is also the founder and director of curatorial project Bad Art Presents.
Anna’s practice is best described as a browse through a forgotten section of a Duty Free store. She fixates on items that "glitter but ain’t gold"- researching their societal significance and cultural connotations. She is fascinated by the things we consume in an effort to alter our identity.
Coming from an Eastern European background, then thrown into a Westernised upbringing in the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union, Anna’s practice functions as a form of rose-tinted voyeurism into an idealised Western culture, approaching food, consumerism and addiction with a contemporary Pop Art vernacular.
Recent and upcoming exhibitions include: Bye Bye Cowboy, Arusha Gallery, 2023, Bodies, Gluttony and Me, Pictorum Gallery, 2023, Husband Material, Arusha, London, 2022, Who Holds the Sword, Hypha Studios, London, 2023, Let Them Eat Fake, The Bomb Factory Art Foundation, London, 2022, Hot Air, Pigeon Park, London, 2021
