'In her portrait paintings, derived from the thumbnails and interim digital collages, Anna scaffolds her subjects into icons. The paintings are machine-age assemblages that are novelistic in scope, invoking swaths of humanity, history circling a central figure with multiple genres of painting.' Moyra Davey: The Big Allegories, 2024

'At a moment when identities are being weaponized in the name of populism, Ostoya populates the frame of a self – a profile – with excessive and contradictory contents. The pleasure of these paintings is the pleasure of travesty, of dressing up a spare image – the contour of a head – in something bright and seductive;' David Joselit: Exploding Profiles

Mishkin Gallery: J M Z, 13 Sept – 13 Dec 2024