Yulia Pinkusevich is a visual artist and educator born in Kharkiv, Ukraine (USSR). Upon the collapse of the Soviet Union, her family fled the eastern block as refugees, immigrating to New York City. She holds a Masters of Fine Arts from Stanford University and Bachelors of Fine Arts from Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts, graduating both with high honors. Yulia has exhibited nationally and internationally including site-specific projects executed in Paris, France and Buenos Aires, Argentina and London, UK, upcoming exhibition include Milan, Singapore and Geneva.
Yulia’s art is in the public collection of the deYoung Museum, Stanford University, Meta HQ, Google HQ and the City of Albuquerque amongst others. She has been awarded a 2024 Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship at the National Air and Space Museum, other fellowships include Vashon AIR, Wassaic Project, Gray Area Arts Foundation, Wildlands, Lucid Arts Foundation, Autodesk Pier 9, Recology (San Francisco Dump), Cite des Arts International (Paris), Headlands Center for the Arts, Wurlitzer Foundation amongst others. Yulia has lectured at Stanford University and is currently an Associate Professor of Studio Art holding join appointments in the College of Art Media and Design and Mills College of Northeastern University. She lives and works in Oakland, California.
Recent Grants:
2024 Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship at National Air and Space Museum, Washington, DC
2024 CAMD Seed Grant 2024 “Inscribing Fallout”
2024 Wassaic Project Artist in Residence, Spring 24, Wassaic, NY
2023-24 Quigley Fellowship, Dept. Women Gender Sexuality Studies Mills NU, Oakland, CA
2023 Faculty Fall Travel Grant, Mills College at Northeastern University, Oakland, CA
2023 Vashon Island Artist in Residence, May, Vashon, WA
2022 Chalkhill Artist in Residence July, Healdsburg, CA
2022 Mills Faculty Research Grant, Suzanne Adams Fund, Oakland, CA
Solo Exhibitions:
2024 Regeneratrix at Marlborough London, February 8 – March 28, London, UK
2023 Marlborough Gallery, Solo exhibition @ Armory Art, New York, NY
2023 Manifold September 2023, Midnight Artist Salesforce Tower, San Francisco, CA
2022 Very Yellow White Flash at RoundWeather Gallery, Oakland, CA
2021 Sakha Aesthesis at Post Collapse Art, Portland, OR
2021 Rupture of the Mundane Plane at Qualia Contemporary Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
2021 Calm Under the Waves at Archer Gallery, Clark College
Group Exhibitions:
2024 Out of Sight: Survey Science and the Hidden West, Autry Museum, Los Angeles, CA, Funded by the Getty, with inclusion in Pacific Standard Time: Art & Science Collide
2024 The Dump Show: A Collaboration with the Recology Artist in Residence Program at Hosfelt Gallery San Francisco, July 13 – August 17, 2024
2024 WOW MOM: Making Art / Making Life Exhibition At Gallery 120710, 1207 10th Street, Berkeley, CA, August 10- September 7th
One Last Round, Round Weather Gallery Oakland, CA, July 27 – September 21, 2024
2024 Holographic Skies, SFArtsEd Gallery, Minnesota Street Projects, San Francisco, CA
2024 Reclaimed: The Art of Recology Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT
2024 Reclaimed: The Art of Recology Irving Archives & Museum, Feb-April 24, Irving TX
2023 Reclaimed: The Art of Recology at Stauth Memorial Museum, Montezuma, KS
2023 SCHEMA: World as Diagram at Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY
2023 Reclaimed: The Art of Recology at Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, WI
2023 In Search of the Miraculous, Marlborough Gallery (Jan 23- March 23), New York, NY
2022 Paperwork: 15 Years of Collecting by the Achenbach Foundation, San Francisco, CA
2022 Transparency/Opacity at Saint Joseph Art Society, San Francisco CA