Annie Riga

Biography

Annie Riga is a visual artist and practice-based researcher based between London and Athens. Her practice spans painting, ceramic sculpture, and installation, exploring the politics and poetics of leakiness – rupture, spillage, and overflow – as critical strategies within contemporary painting and visual culture. Challenging the traditional notion of painting as a self-contained, autonomous object, she approaches it instead as a porous and relational body shaped by material vulnerability, ecological entanglement, and feminist critique.

Influenced by feminist and posthumanist thought, Riga’s work investigates how instability, fluidity, and affect can unsettle inherited structures of vision, knowledge, and form. Through both writing and making, she examines how surfaces collapse, supports fail, and bodies – human and nonhuman – co-produce meaning through proximity, rupture, and response.

Originally from Greece, her practice is grounded in a situated knowledge shaped by coastal memory, myth, and the fluid entanglements of body and sea. She is committed to developing experimental practices that remain materially attentive, politically engaged, and defiantly leaky.

Riga is currently a PhD researcher at Chelsea College of Arts, University of the Arts London. She holds a BFA in Fine Art from Falmouth University (2018) and an MFA from St. Joost School of Art and Design (2021). Her exhibitions include solo and group presentations across Europe and North America.