Anna Tsvell

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about

Anna Tsvell (b. 1984) is a contemporary visual artist working through hand embroidery and fiber processes to explore the psychological and darker dimensions of nature, based in Da Nang, Vietnam.
Her practice is based on the unstable boundaries between growth and decay, beauty and disturbance, familiar and unknown, visible and invisible.
Working through an intuitive, process-based methodology, Tsvell develops each composition without predetermined imagery. Through the slow accumulation of thread, complex forms emerge that evoke fungal networks, cellular structures, root systems, geological formations, and speculative organisms. Existing between abstraction and representation, her works are related with the hidden forces that shape living systems and challenge conventional distinctions between natural and artificial, order and chaos.
Her work has been featured by Gucci, Dior, Tiffany & Co., Adidas Originals, Harper's Bazaar, SHOWstudio, Lampoon Magazine, Beautiful Bizarre Magazine, DressX, Winsor & Newton, and Art on a Postcard.
Artist statement:Central to her practice is an interest in what she describes as The Monstrous Natural - those aspects of nature that resist categorization and exceed human attempts to impose meaning, control, or permanence. Rejecting romanticized notions of nature, the work examines the darker dimensions of living processes such as decay, mutation, parasitism, adaptation, and collapse. Through embroidery, a medium historically associated with care, labor, and domestic traditions, Tsvell creates intricate environments that reveal nature as a site of continual transformation, mutation, adaptation, and renewal.Solo exhibitions:● June 27 - July 27 2026 - "The Monstrous Natural", Pafos Underground Gallery, Pafos, Cyprus
● March 1- 4 2025 - „Sestre suđenice“ (with artists Anđela Amidžić and Gloria Monjov), Woonder Studio, Belgrade, Serbia
Selected group exhibitions:● November 21 2025 - March 2026 - group art show “Inviolable Body”, Salem Art Gallery, Salem, MA, US
● November 14 - November 17 2024 - “Art of Alanya” 9th International Exhibition, Alanya, Turkey
● September 25 - October 25 2024 - “Modern”, Modern Sanatlar Galerisi, Antalya, Turkey
● September 25 - September 27 2024 - “One heart lost. Replay?”, Prostor Miljenko Dereta, Belgrade, Serbia
● August 5 - August 15 2024 - “Flow : Art in Dynamics”, NR Galerija , Belgrade, Serbia
● July 22 - July 26 2024 - “Where the sky meets the land”, Amove Gallery, Farnborough, UK
● July 1 - July 15 2024- “Dani Nikole Tesle 2024”, NR Galerija , Belgrade, Serbia
● April 1 - May 30 2024 - “Threads of Tomorrow”, Museu Têxtil, New Orleans, US
● March 24 2024 - “Life’s waiting room” pavilion at The Bombay Beach Biennale, California, US
● November 2023 - March 2024 - The Wrong Biennale
● October 2023 - December 2023 - Belmont Shore, Long Beach, California, US
● August 2022 - September 2022 - “Metafashion”, Nikolskaya Gallery, London, UK
● January 2022 - March 2022 - “Fashion Illustration Takes The Spotlight”, Pop Up Museum, Moscow, Russia.
● October 2021 - “The Hunt for the Soluble Fish”, the Zverev Center of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
● May 2021 - "Garden of Colourful Mists", Haze Gallery, Berlin, Germany
● October 2020 - November 2020 - “Triumph of Life”, personal online exhibition
● September 2020 - life painting performance for “Nehudozhnik” project, Leveldva, Moscow, Russia
● March 2020 - Van Der Plas Gallery, NYC, US
● January 2020 - Van Der Plas Gallery, NYC, US
● July 2019 - Old Spitalfields Market ( charity project by Art On A Postcard, Ben Eine as a co-curator ), London, UK
● May 2019 - Stony Stratford Gallery, Milton Keynes, UK
● April 2019 - IZO Art Gallery, Moscow, Russia
● September 2018 - "Perfect 10" group art show, La Bodega Gallery, San Diego, California, US
● May 2018 - Kvartina Art Gallery, Moscow, Russia
● September 2017 - Milano Fashion Library, Milan, Italy
● February 2017 - Chocolate and Art Show,The Vortex, Los Angeles, California, US
● January 2017 - Stay Peculiar (Tim Burton tribute art show) - LAM Gallery, Los Angeles, Hollywood, California, US
● December 2016 - ARTX Gallery, Long Beach, California, US
● November 2016 - co-LAb gallery, Los Angeles, California, US
● November 2016 - The Neutra Gallery and Museum, Los Angeles, California, US
● October 2016 - The Neutra Gallery and Museum, Los Angeles, California, US
● September 2016 - Manhattan Beach Library, Los Angeles, California, US
Selected collaborations :● Art In Rug (Los Angeles) x Anna Tsvell Unique Limited Edition Rug
● Exclusive digital fashion art collection for Dress-X
● Harper's Bazaar Korea - cover art for a special edition issue August 2020
● Art on a postcard, charity project, June 2019
● Dior for The Fashionable Lampoon: Saint/Surreal article including Dior pre fall 2018 photoset (April 2018 issue)
● The Fashionable Lampoon: the cover (September 2017 issue), the Dot Circle 2017 project
● Tiffany & Co: Tiffany City HardWear collection for The Fashionable Lampoon project
● GUESS: Denim Day in Rome
● Face Factory Paris
● Try Merry: Anna’s illustrations as a part of the collective print “We Are The People”
Selected publications:● Digital Art Blog - 10 Digital Artists: The Charm of Abstract Digital Art
● Digital Art Blog - Interview
● The Femin
● Gucci website
● Beautiful Bizarre Magazine Q&A
● Interview for Purplehaze Mag, Berlin
● Interview for Dress-X, Los Angeles
● Interview for Haze Gallery, Berlin
● Büro 24/7
● Harper's Bazaar Russia
● BluePrint
● Harper's Bazaar Korea cover for a special edition issue August 2020
● SHOWstudio
● Unseen Sketchbooks (UK) - Interview
● Candid Orange (UK) - "Sharing scars with Anna Tsvell" article featured on the main page
● Peredvizhnik (leading art supplies store in Russia) - Golden acrylics expert review + an exclusive review about Golden Open
slow-drying acrylics
● Public talk and testing of Winsor & Newton acrylic paints at Peredvizhnik (leading art supplies store in Russia)
● Peredvizhnik (leading art supplies store in Russia) - Da Vinci synthetic brushes expert review
● Will Magazine, Issue 3 Attraction Terrestre, July 2019
● Brenda Magazine, Issue 3 RED, December 2018
● The Art Avenue: focus on (the featured post) and artists catalogue
● The Fashionable Lampoon: artworks for Dior, the "Saint/Surreal" article, April 2018 issue
● Beautiful Bizarre Magazine, Issue 020, March 2018, Artist Snapshot
● The Fashionable Lampoon Magazine, Cover art for the Issue 10, September 2017
● Beautiful Bizarre Magazine, June 2017, Art Throbs
● Lampoon Magazine, April 2017, The Dot Circle
● Volition Magazine May 2017 issue (featured artist at pages 172- 179)
● Depeche Mode official Facebook page - one of the Depeche Mode fan takeover
● Artospective online art magazine, February 2017
● Emboss Magazine, Issue 4, June 2016, cover art and interview
● Vivid Fashion and Illustration Magazine, Issue #1, Spring 2016
● Glow Project, November 2016
● Art Muzeo Magazine, Issue 3, May 2016

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