Anna Liber Lewis (b.1977) lives and works in London. She received a BA (Hons) in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins 2001 and an MFA from the RCA 2015. Liber Lewis’s unique painterly practice is driven by a contrary attitude; rules are set, then broken, established systems and structures are undermined. Driven by a need to be surprised, Liber Lewis employs techniques that are unpredictable and full of risk interweaving and overpainting motifs from past series. Creating is destroying. 

Liber Lewis was the 2013 recipient of the Genesis Foundation Scholarship to study at the Royal College of Art, gaining an MFA in 2015. She was awarded the Moich Abrahams Prize for Most Innovative Work at The London Group Century Open (2013), and received both the Griffin Arts Prize and the Young Contemporary Talent Prize, supported by the Ingram Collection, in 2017.

Solo shows include ‘Spectral Interference’ Saatchi Gallery, London early 2026. ‘Muscle Memory’, 2019 commissioned by Elephant Magazine: a call-and-response relationship between music and painting. This marked the beginning of an ongoing creative collaboration with Four Tet (Kieran Hebden), developed through long-term dialogue between sound and image and later realised through the EP Anna Painting. 2019 ‘Conversations with Elieen Agar’ at The Lightbox, Woking where she was asked to respond to a piece from the Ingram Collection; she chose ‘The Sower’ by Eileen Agar. Group exhibitions include Landscape Portrait: Now and Then; Redressing the Balance: Women Artists from the Ingram Collection; WIP at Camden Arts Centre Studio; Forms, Galarie pcp, Paris; On the Calculation of Volume, Gerald Moore Gallery (2024); SHAPE SORTER, Marie Jose Gallery; Fragmented Realities, Reflex Gallery, 2022, Amsterdam; Can You Hear It?, Cooke Latham Gallery, London (2022); Life Is Still Life, curated by Naomi Polonsky, The Women’s Art Collection, Cambridge (2022); Sign Systems, Unit London (2022); two-person show, Between the Lines – New Paintings by Anna Liber Lewis and Dominic Beattie, Meakin + Parsons in partnership with Hannah Payne, Oxford (2022).

She has shown widely in the UK and Europe, and her work is held in numerous private collections.