Grants + Awards + Certificates
2021 Best-of-the-Best Red Dot: Design Concept Award
2021 Nasdaq Competition
2017 SCAD Academic Honors Scholarship
2017 SCAD Achievement Honor Scholarship
2016 Cal-Earth Super Adobe Workshop Certificate
2016 Permaculture Design Certificate
Waffle Gradients
2020 - Current
An ongoing series exploring three-dimensional textiles that stimulate a natural habitat within interior environments.
Using color as a communicator, each piece becomes a sensory experience as relief waffle patterns rise and fall in a gradient fiber landscape; a window that provides a vista of meditation where humanity can dive deeper into the collectively undiscovered self.
All work is made using AVL Dobby Looms
Design Miami: Experience Chromatic Reverie
Artist Anya Molyviatis (B.F.A., fibers, 2021) showcases a new series of her hallmark three-dimensional weavings within a site-specific installation that envelops the space in dynamic multicolor gradients and evokes the complexity of her process on the loom. Redefining a centuries-old weaving practice, Molyviatis invents ethereal textile works woven with intricate waffle patterns that leverage the curiosities of color theory and invite new dimensions into the viewer’s perception.
Featured alongside:
An expert inventive décor, Eny Lee Parker (M.F.A., furniture design, 2018; M.A., furniture design, 2016; B.F.A., interior design, 2011) creates furnishings that celebrate texture and detail, combining unorthodox materials in bespoke objects of vertu that transform any space.
Celebrated tastemaker Christopher John Rogers (B.F.A., fashion, 2016) partners with family-owned furniture design studio and manufacturer Orior, led by Ciaran McGuigan (B.F.A., film and television, 2013), to deliver a seating line that pays whimsical reverence to traditional Irish fabrication.
Elevate
Ivester Contemporary is proud to present Elevate, a collection of 11 unique weavings by Anya Molyviatis. This exhibition marks the artist's second solo show at the gallery. Elevate, a subseries of Molyviatis' Bloom collection, explores her ongoing fascination with transforming material and color into expressions of weightlessness.
In this body of work, Molyviatis weaves mohair and cotton into intricate, three-dimensional textiles that challenge material weight. By isolating and exploring subtle variations of a single hue, each piece embodies the purity and resonance of its chosen color. The collection underscores how environments shape human sensibilities, with these woven forms not only awakening the senses but also functioning as natural sound absorbers. Through these pieces, Molyviatis invites viewers to reconsider how materials can inspire a sense of wonder and levity in their most elevated forms.
The exhibition will conclude with a special closing performance by David Slowing, created in response to Molyviatis' work. The sound composition is derived from the weaving patterns and mathematical structures embedded in the pieces, further bridging the relationship between textile, sound, and spatial experience.
Submerge
In her debut solo museum exhibition, Submerge, Anya Molyviatis presents a new body of three-dimensional textiles that investigate the interplay of light, depth, and materiality. The exhibition features the largest woven works of her career, pieces that are simultaneously meticulous in their construction and monumental in their presence.
Working through a diamond-waffle structure of her own design, Molyviatis builds dimensionality through both the physical architecture of interlaced threads and the optical vibration of color. Each piece is woven from hand-dyed cotton and mohair on a rare 40-harness vintage loom—one of only twenty in existence—requiring thousands of meticulously threaded fibers to achieve her sculptural surfaces. The resulting works form atmospheric gradients that challenge our perception of weight, density, and sound. Immersing the gallery in shifting fields of color and texture, Molyviatis creates an environment of heightened sensory awareness and contemplative stillness.
Submerge was presented at the SCAD Museum of Art alongside concurrent exhibitions by Dan Flavin, Monira Al Qadiri, and Anthony Olubunmi Akinbola, positioning Molyviatis’ exploration of luminosity, material transformation, and spatial perception within a vibrant, multi-artist dialogue across the museum.
Bloom
The “Bloom” series is a synthesis of form and function, using weaving to deepen our connection with living spaces.
These works transform spaces into harmonious sanctuaries through intricate three-dimensional structures. Blending mohair and cotton, they craft vibrant color combinations, challenging wool's weight, imparting a sensation of weightlessness. Textured surfaces beckon touch, offering tactile comfort that awakens the senses. These structures burst with color into visual experiences, doubling as natural sound absorbers. The fibers’ acoustic properties, cradle and disperse noise, orchestrating calmness and clarity in raucous environments.
'Bloom' transcends aesthetics to reshape how we perceive materials while rekindling our awareness of sensory experiences.
Material/Memory/Myth
Evergreene Studio founder Nicole Timonier and Jeff Lincoln Art + Design are pleased to present “Material/Memory/Myth,” a group show of twelve LA and West Coast-based artists and designers who are at the forefront of a movement in which the lines between art and craft are blurred, engaging ancient materials – ceramic, wood, glass, fiber – from a modern point of view, freed from a history of craft, yet rooted in memory, transcending time and place, and creating new mythologies.
