Annie Riga (b. 1997, Athens, Greece) is an artist living and working between Athens and London. Working across expanded painting, ceramics, textiles and installation, her practice explores unstable surfaces, porous supports and material processes of sagging, staining, rupture and seepage. Informed by the Aegean Sea, feminist materialist thought and posthumanist approaches, Riga considers instability as a generative condition through which painting opens onto dependency, transformation and relation.
Riga is currently a practice-led PhD candidate in Fine Art at University of the Arts London. She holds an MA in Visual Art and Post-Contemporary Practice from St. Joost School of Art & Design, Netherlands, and a BA in Fine Art from Falmouth University, UK. She has presented work internationally, including at Art Studio SSG, Athens; ATOPOS CVC, Athens; London College of Fashion, London; Hypha Studios, London; Triangle Space, London; Kunstrai Amsterdam; and SK Gallery, Solingen. She has undertaken residencies and fellowships at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Vermont Studio Center, Salzburg Academy of Fine Arts and Big Blue Dot: BCK Ceramics, and will undertake a residency at Studio Kura, Japan, in 2026. In 2025, she spoke at Crisis/Death/Resurrection: A Painting Symposium at Triskel Arts Centre, Cork.