Sanya Kantarovsky, born in 1982 in Moscow, Russia, lives and works in New York. He is an artist whose practice centers on painting while also encompassing film, animation, sculpture, design, and curatorial projects. His paintings focus on imagined human figures, often entangled in psychological and physical discomfort, unfolding within a tension between seduction and repulsion. Drawing on traditions of humanist painting and caricature, Kantarovsky explores how desire is rendered and the limits of painting as a means of representing experience. His work approaches emotion with a self-reflexive restraint, reflecting the artist’s own ambivalent relationship with the medium of painting. His works are held in major institutional collections, including Tate Modern and the Whitney Museum of American Art.