Anya Belyat Giunta was born in 1975 in St. Petersburg, Russia. She lives and works in Lyon, France.
Turbulence from the end soviet era obliged her family to exile: first to Austria, then to Italy, and finally to the United States where she would spend her teenage years. Drawing has always been in her nature and has accompanied Anya in her lifelong journey.
Anya graduated from Minneapolis College of Art and Design with a BFA in 1999. She has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Europe, Russia, and the United States.
In 2001 Anya Belyat-Giunta received the Charles Oulmont Prize Foundation of France.
In 2015 she was shortlisted for the Partners Drawing Prize, Saint Etienne Modern Art Museum, France.
In 2018 she took part in the exhibition “Loup y es-tu? Bestiaire et métamorphoses “at Chateau Maison Laffitte, outside of Paris.
In 2018 and 2019 she took part in two major exhibitions curated by Lorand Hegyi at the Parkview Museum Singapore, Intriguing Uncertaintes and Disturbing Narratives.
Her work is part of the Frans Masereel Centrum, Belgium, and the Thomas Koerfer Collection, Switzerland.