Anna Valentina Murch (7 December 1948 – 26 March 2014) was a British artist who was based in San Francisco.
Murch's mother, originally from St. Petersburg, met her husband in Shanghai during World War II.
[3] She began teaching at Mills College in 1992, and she held the Joan Danforth Chair of Studio Art there from 2005 to 2007.
[2] Murch's work often involved large urban spaces, stations, plazas, bridges, and installations that created plays of light, water, and sound.
[7] The design recycled 160,000 pounds of colored glass to "create a shifting, ephemeral light show".