AñA Wojak describes themselves as a 'cross-disciplinary artist working in performance, painting, assemblage, installation and theatre design, with a particular interest in site-specificity, ritual and altered states'. Born in Australia, they studied in Gdansk, Poland in the period of martial law, attaining a master's degree in fine arts in 1983. Wojak has been an Archibald finalist twice, a Portia Geach finalist several times and a Sculpture by the Sea finalist four times; they won the Blake Prize for religious art in 2004. In 2007 Wojak was an artist-in-residence at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney. They have performed with Tony Yap Co, Pacitti Co, La Pocha Nostra, senVoodoo (as co- founder) and Felix Ruckert, amongst others, and appeared in Australian and international festivals. In 2013 they performed at Undisclosed Territories7 in Surakarta, Java; exhibited in Jogyakarta; and participated in the Melaka Art & Performance Festival in Malaysia. The artist currently lives in the Northern Rivers area of New South Wales.
