Born in 1987, she is yet to understand the formulaic act of an artist biography as anything other than proving, you should be liked because someone has previously liked you. That being said in, 2020 Anastasia was selected by the Museum of African Contemporary Art Al Maaden for a residency in Marrakesh. In 2018 she was selected for the OpenLab Residency in Richmond, Northern Cape and named by the Project Space as a finalist for the Young Female Residency Award and one of the top twenty artists of Joburg Art Fair, 2018. Pather has also been a semi-finalist for the SA TAXI Foundation Art Award. Anastasia paints in Johannesburg and has had four solo shows at 99 Loop, Cape Town, South Africa (2016, 2017, 2018, 2020). In 2022 she opened an art consultancy AP.AD that designs and manages corporate art collections with a specific focus on South African artist development her clients include J.P. Morgan, South Africa. In April 2023 Anastasia will be exhibiting at the Museum oF African American Art (AAM) in Dallas Texas in an exhibition entitled, 'If you look hard enough, you can see the future'.