Discipline Category: Printmaking

I am a bilingual (Spanish, English) artist, writer, and curator who has been involved in various Winnipeg collectives, most recently active as an editor and co-founder of Carnation Zine. Artistic mediums I work with include photography, video, and printmaking. My artistic practice explores intersections of place, identity, and language with coloniality, temporality, and relation. I was the curator in residence at the Winnipeg Art Gallery-Qaumajuq from 2021 to 2022, presenting a group exhibition on the theme of embodied knowledge. My writing has been published through platforms including Akimbo, C Magazine, and Terremoto.

From my experience in zine collectives, with artist-run centres, and through independent projects, I have taught youth and adult workshops, given presentations, and acted as a mentor. I enjoy interviewing other artists about their work as an event facilitator.

I bring my experience securing 24 grants over the past 7 years for myself and my collectives to my grant consultation and editing services for artists.

Image credits:
A volar entre rocas (installation) and mapping elsewhere (book) by Mariana Muñoz Gomez. Photos courtesy of Dennis Ha and grunt gallery.

¿Qué decir de allá y aquí? by Mariana Muñoz Gomez.

Carnation, Vol. 3 (Fire). Editors: Christina Hajjar, Whess Harman, and Mariana Muñoz Gomez. Photo courtesy of mai creative co.

Transmissions (group exhibition curated by Mariana Muñoz Gomez). Artwork pictured by (L-R): Gonzalo Reyes Rodríguez, Daphne Odjig, Preston Pavlis. Photo courtesy of Serge Gumenyuk and WAG-Qaumajuq.

Photo of Mariana (as facilitator), Maribeth Tabanera, Vivi Dabee, and Dammecia Hall. Young Lungs Dance Exchange 2025-26 Artist Residency. Photo by Pablo Riquelme.

Anja Studer was born and raised in Switzerland and became an environmental activist at a very young age, feeling a deep need to protect the world we live in. She studied fine arts at the École de design et haute école d’art du Valais and the University of Manitoba and graduated from Red River College with a diploma in photography. Anja continues to create, exhibit, and sell her art in Europe and North America.

Anja creates works in a variety of mediums, often with a focus on the impact of environmental challenges facing wildlife.  Her mixed media paintings – featuring beautiful, abstract watercolour washes enriched with details in ink, acrylic, 18k gold and graphite – loosely evoke the landscape.  Her papercuts are inspired by the traditional Swiss artform.  This delicate medium utilizes the concept of patterns unravelling into lines to echo the message of wildlife extinction.