Aneta Stojnic, PhD, LP, FIPA

Psychoanalysis, Art, Theory

Born in Belgrade (Yugoslavia), based in New York City.

Dr. Aneta Stojnić is a licensed psychoanalyst, and a fellow of the IPA, in private practice in New York City. She is a director of Child and Adolescent Program CAP at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, IPTAR in New York, where she is also a faculty member and a supervisor.

She co-chairs IPTAR-Q, and serves on the IPTAR’s Institute Board, and Programs Committee. Previously she has served on the board of IPTAR Clinical Centre, and Arts and Society committee.

Aneta is a senior editor at  ROOM – A Sketchbook for Analytic Action  winner of 2025 Sigourney award and 2018 Gradiva Award.

With Isaac Slone, Aneta is a hosts  Voices from Room: A Podcast for Analytic Action.

She is on the faculty of the New Directions writing program where she teaches a workshop on Writing as Analytic Action.

Aneta’s work is characterized by a strong connection between theory and practice. Her main areas of professional interest include psychoanalysis, performance and media studies, gender studies, decoliniality, and artistic and theoretical practices that affirm critical thinking at the intersection of psychoanalyses, art, culture and politics.

Until 2017 Aneta Stojnić has held a position of an assistant professor at the Faculty of Media and Communications in Belgrade, teaching several courses at MA and PhD study programs in Transdisciplinary Humanities and Theory of Art and Media. Previously she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna with a project topic “Liminal Spaces and Shifting Realities in Contemporary Performance: Body, Politics, Technologies”, and Basileus postdoctoral research-fellow at Ghent University, (Belgium) Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, Research centre S:PAM (Studies in Performing Arts & Media) with the project “Politics of Body in the 21st century”. Aneta Stojnić obtained her PhD at the University of Arts in Belgrade, Interdisciplinary Studies – Theory of Art and Media, in 2013. During her PhD studies she was a visiting researcher at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna in 2010, 2012 and 2013 with Ernst-Mach Scholarship and the OeAd (Austrian Agency for International Cooperation in Education and Research) scholarships. She was the artist in residence at TanzQuartier Vienna in 2011, and the writer in residence at KulturKontakt Austria in 2012.

Aneta Stojnić has published three books and three co-edited volumes, as well as dozens of peer-reviewed papers, and essays on contemporary art and media published in renowned journals such as The Psychoanalytic Review, Still Point, Room, Performance Research; Théâtre/Public; n.paradoxa; AM Journal for Art and Media Studies; IDENTITIES Journal for Gender, Politics and Culture; Documenta: tijdschrift voor theater; and has contributed chapters to the books and volumes published by Palgrave Macmillan, Modernes Theater, Sternberg Press and Löcker, among others. She is also on the editorial boards of AM Journal of Art and Media Studies and INSAM Journal of Contemporary Music Art and Technology.

As an artist and curator she has collaborated with institutions and organizations such as: Whitney ISP, TanzQuartier Wien, Spring Festival (Uthrecht), Segal Theatre / CUNY Graduate Center (New York),  Les Laboratoires d’Aubervillier (Paris), Quartier21 (Vienna), Dansens Hus Stockholm, Odin Teatret (Denmark), Chto Delat? (St. Petersburg), BITEF Theatre (Belgrade), Open Space (Vienna), MAIZ (Linz), AMRO festival (Linz), TkH Walking Theory (Belgrade/Berlin), October Salon (Belgrade) and many others. With Jon McKenzie Aneta realised a number of performance and media projects under the name McKenzie Stojnić   .

She regularly presents her work and research at conferences and festivals worldwide.