About me
I’m Anna Collevecchio, an artist based in Jersey City. I work at the intersection of art and science because I see them as two ways of doing the same thing: trying to understand how the universe works, using different languages.
Science relies on data and models; art works through form, color, rhythm, and intuition. I see my role as a translator between these worlds. I take complex ideas –about time, energy, perception, or consciousness – and turn them into experiences that can be felt, not just understood. VecchioStudio is both my studio and a working space for experimentation, collaboration, and research, where art is used as a tool to explore ideas usually confined to scientific or academic contexts.
I’m an artist-in-residence at ART150 in Jersey City, a member of the National Association of Women Artists and ProArts, and a mentor with AIGA.
ArtLab
ArtLab is the research and development arm of VecchioStudio. It’s where I collaborate with scientists, engineers, and institutions to translate research into visual, spatial, and experiential forms. ArtLab uses art as a working method—developing projects with light, sound, data, and interactive systems that help non-specialist audiences engage with complex ideas in intuitive, human ways.
Photo by Megan Maloy
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Anna Collevecchio (b. 1988, St. Petersburg, Russia) is a Jersey City–based multidisciplinary artist working across painting and installation to explore perception, systems, and consciousness.
Raised in her mother’s painting studio in St. Petersburg, she absorbed the discipline of art-making early on, while a parallel fascination with science fiction shaped her curiosity about hidden systems and alternate realities. As a teenager, she mapped the “network of evil” in The Lord of the Rings for a citywide academic competition — an early indication of her enduring interest in systems thinking and narrative structure.
Collevecchio holds a BA in Graphic Arts and advanced degrees (MA, PhD) in Communication and Media Studies from Saint Petersburg State University. Initially on a path toward becoming a printmaker and illustrator, she turned instead to visual communication and academia, developing one of Russia’s first MA-level courses in infographics and mentoring over fifty emerging designers.
Her professional career spans teaching, creative direction, and brand system leadership for institutions and technology companies in both Russia and the United States. Immigration first to Cyprus and later to the U.S. deepened her engagement with translation — between languages, cultures, and frameworks of meaning.
Since 2010, her work has been exhibited internationally, with recent presentations in New York and New Jersey, including the Newark Museum of Art and 14C Gallery. She is currently a resident artist at ART150 in Jersey City.
She lives and works in Jersey City with her husband and daughter, whose devotion to cats ensures that feline mythology continues to surface — quietly but persistently — in her studio.
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I am a multidisciplinary artist investigating time, energy, and the invisible structures that shape human experience. My work moves across painting, installation, light, and responsive systems, but the inquiry remains constant: how can forces we cannot see be made perceptible?
Time is my central subject. It is intangible yet governing, abstract yet embodied. We cannot hold it, yet we live entirely within it. I am interested in how duration, attention, and repetition alter perception — and how invisible systems organize both the cosmos and the self.
My foundational practice is a process I call Temporal Psychoexpressionism. Each painting is constructed from thousands of counted brushstrokes, tallied in increments of one hundred along the edge of the surface. Time is not represented; it is embedded. The work becomes both image and record — a material archive of sustained attention.
Material choices are deliberate. Spackling paste references permanence and fresco traditions. Watercolor evokes fluidity and memory. Metal leaf conducts light. Circular and hexagonal formats operate as structural containers rather than decoration. Counting becomes measurement. Repetition becomes rhythm. The surface becomes a temporal field.
In recent years, this inquiry has expanded into collaborative, research-driven installations integrating light, sound, and biometric input. Projects translate breath, pulse, and proximity into responsive environments, extending the logic of counted duration into real-time systems. The methods have grown more complex, but the question remains unchanged: how do unseen forces become experience?
Across media, my work functions as a bridge — between intuition and analysis, embodiment and structure, art and science. I am not illustrating theory. I am building perceptual instruments.
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2025 – Art (Official) Intelligence, 14C Gallery, Jersey City, USA
2025 – The Sixteen Best Jersey City Art Shows of 2025
2025 – NAWA group show, National Arts Club, New York, USA
2025 – Curator: group show “Contents May Vary”, ART150 Lobby Gallery, Jersey City, USA
2025 – Solo show “The Door is Right There”, ART150 Lobby Gallery, Jersey City, USA
2025 – Curator: Roberto Colangeli, “Traveling the Interior Horizon”, Art150 Lobby Gallery, Jersey City, USA
2025 – Cathedral Arts Festival, Jersey City, USA
2024 – “Affordable Art Show”, ArtHouse, Jersey city, USA
2024 – “Tangled Up in Blue”, Newport Centre, Jersey City, USA
2024 – “Radical Reimagining”, Newark Art Museum, Newark, USA
2024 – ”The Red Show”, Shibumi Gallery, NYC, USA
2024 – "We Curate!" Art Show, Art150 Gallery, Jersey City, USA
2024 – The Affordable Art Show, Liberty State Park, Jersey City, USA2024 – "Midsommar" Art Show, ArtLab Gallery, Mendham, USA
2024 – Cathedral Arts Festival, Jersey City, USA
2024 – “Ritual/Reverence” Art Show, Brooklyn, New York, USA
2024 – “Touch” Art Show, Art150 Gallery, Jersey City, USA
2024 – “Static Motion” Art Show, 14C Gallery, Jersey City, USA
2024 – “Re:Growth” Art Show, Art150 Gallery, Jersey City, USA
2024 — Featured in SaatchiArt collection
2024 – "Best in Show 2023" Art Show, Emerge Gallery, NY, USA
2023 – Publication: Women in Arts Network profile feature
2023 – Holiday Art Show. Departed Souls, Jersey City, USA
2023 – Publication: Artist Closeup Blog
2023 – “Why Do You Do It?” Art Show. Boomer Gallery, London, UK
2023 – Personal Show, Open Studio (part of JCAST and Jersey City Art Week). 313 Gallery, Jersey City, USA
2023 – Summer Mercado. Wine & Design Studio, Weehawken, USA
2022 – Published a book with watercolor illustrations “History of Public Transportation”, Kacheli publishing, St. Petersburg, Russia
2020 – Curator: Irina Alexandrina’s Personal Exhibition. Gallery “Ponte Vecchio", Florence, Italy
2018 – Curator: End of Spring Semester Art Show. St. Joseph’s College, Brooklyn, USA
2017 – Curator: Winter Art Show. St. Joseph’s College, Brooklyn, USA
2016 – “Secret garden”. Sit and Wonder, Brooklyn, USA
2014 – 2012 - Curator: “Blue Horseman, Yellow Sound” Memorial Exhibition. St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, St. Petersburg, Russia
2013 – Arts & Crafts Festival. Old Town Square. Limassol, Cyprus
2012 – Curator: “Simple Things”. Audi Retail center. St. Petersburg, Russia
2012 – Curator: “Hudozhniki Group Show”. Time Cafe, St. Petersburg, Russia
2011 – Museum Anniversary Art Show. Erarta Museum. St. Petersburg, Russia
2011 – Illustration published in Dress Code Fashion Magazine. St. Petersburg, Russia
2010 – Graphic Art Show. Gallery “Anna”. St. Petersburg, Russia
2009 – Quarterly Art Show, Emerging Artists section. Artists Union Gallery. St. Petersburg, Russia
2008 – 1st prize in the “City views” competition among students of art schools. Moscow, Russia
2007 – “Flowers” Exhibition. Central Exhibiting Hall. St. Petersburg, Russia
2006 – The Young Artists Exhibition. Central Art House. Moscow, Russia -
“The Door is Right There” art show review by Tris McCall – independent art critic supported by Andy Warhol Foundation.
