Anne Moya (°1975, Seattle, United States) is a design artist who creates paintings and illustrations. By rejecting an objective truth and global cultural narratives, Moya touches various overlapping themes and strategies. Several reoccurring subject matter can be recognized, such as the relation with popular culture and media, working with repetition, provocation and the investigation of the process of expectations.Her paintings demonstrate how life extends beyond its own subjective limits and often tells a story about the effects of global cultural interaction particularly over the last century. It challenges the binaries we continually reconstruct between Self and Other, between our own ‘cannibal’ and ‘civilized’ selves. By demonstrating the omnipresent lingering of a ‘corporate world’, her works reference post-colonial theory as well as the post-modern and the left-wing democratic movement as a form of resistance against the logic of the capitalist market system.

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Her works often refer to and utilize pop and mass culture. Using written and drawn symbols, a world where lightheartedness rules and where rules are undermined is created. By using popular themes such as sexuality, family structure and chaos, she creates with daily, recognizable elements, an unprecedented situation in which the viewer is confronted with the conditioning of their own perception and has to reconsider their biased position.

Her work urges us to renegotiate painting as being part of a reactive or – at times – autistic medium, commenting on oppressing themes in our contemporary society.