Anna Tikhonova was born in Minsk, Belarus into a family of artists and graduated from the Belarusian State Academy of Arts - Department of Graphics in 2002. She subsequently completed postgraduate studies at the Department of "Theory and History of Art".
She is the author of scientific studies and publications on the Belarusian and European ex-libris of the 20th and early 21st centuries. Between 2011 and 2013 she is head of the scientific and exhibition department and curator of the ex-libris collection at the Museum of Modern Art in Minsk.
She has lived in Sofia since 2014.
In her works, Anna combines the etching technique with letterpress methods on black paper. The main themes in her graphics are human figures, music and ballet, the questions of birth and death, poetry and flight.
