About
Yulia Pinkusevich is an interdisciplinary visual artist. Born in Kharkov, Ukraine (former USSR) she holds a Bachelors of Fine Arts from Rutgers University and is currently a Masters of Fine Arts candidate at Stanford University. She has studied at Harvard Graduate School of Design, School of Visual Arts and California College of Art. Yulia’s works have been published and reviewed in Adbuster, THE Magazine, SF Weekly, East Bay Express, Starved Magazine, and FlankStak. She has been awarded residency grants from Redux, Goldwell Open Air Museum and The Wurlitzer Foundation. She received The San Francisco Foundations 2011 Murphy & Cadogan Fellowship in the Fine Arts as well as Stanford University SiCA’s Spark and ASSU Grant. She has exhibited primarily in New York, Santa Fe and San Francisco. Yulia’s works have been placed in private and public collection across the US, Europe and South America. She currently resides in Palo Alto, California.
“My work explores societal and human patterns in their transient states. My background itself is rooted in change. Due to my personal history, I posses an amalgam of opposing belief systems, within which I constantly struggle to find refuge. My research and practice has turned towards the contemporary landscape in flux. I question and study the changing landscape by exploring aesthetics of architecture, design and urbanism. My work focuses on the perception of systems and attempts to tether seen and unseen forces acting upon utopian and dystopian narratives.”
EDUCATION
2012 Stanford University, Department of Art and Art History Stanford, CA
Masters of Fine Art Candidate in Studio Practice (Class of 2012)
2009 Harvard Graduate School of Design Cambridge, MA
Career Discovery Program /Architecture
2006 Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University New Brunswick, NJ
Bachelor of Fine Arts: Painting Concentration
Graduated High Academic Honors
2001 California College of Art San Francisco, CA
Fine Arts: Sculpture (Deans list 2 years)
Recipient of the CCAC Merit Scholarship
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2013 Solo Exhibition, REDUX Art Center, Charleston, SC
2012 Laguna St Project, Highlight Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2011 Frontrunners: San Francisco Foundation 2011
Murphy & Cadogan Awards Exhibition at SOMArts San Francisco, CA
Party on the Edge: Cantor Art Museum Stanford, CA
Not For Sale: FICTILIS GALLLERY Seattle, WA
Perfect Place/No Place July @ Million Fishes San Francisco CA
Modulations, at SOMArts, by CCRMA San Francisco, CA
2010 Heretical Hierarchy, Thomas Welton Stanford Art Gallery Stanford, CA
Palm at the End of the Mind, Alphonse Berber Gallery Berkeley, CA
Works on View, Bimma Loft 2.0 San Francisco, CA
Nuclear Suns, Tokyo Go Go San Francisco, CA
2009 Cactus Landscape for Paris Site-Specific Installation Paris, France
Recession Art Sale: After the Gold Rush New York, NY
Elements – LAND/ART South Broadway Cultural Center Albuquerque, NM
City of Albuquerque Public Art Purchase Albuquerque, NM
Black and White – Share.TV Cambridge, MA
The Great Temple of Fallen Civilization - Warehouse 21 Santa Fe, NM
Irresistible – 105 Studios Albuquerque, NM
2008 Night of 1,000 Drawings - Artist Space New York, NY
Dreams and Nightmares - UnTRAINed Boxcar Gallery Santa Fe, NM
Way of the Dead - 105 Studios Albuquerque, NM
New Drawings - LOKA Art Space Solo Exhibition Taos, NM
Resonate - SEED Gallery Newark, NJ
2007 Insider Art - Christie’s Auction House New York, NY
End of the Line - SPACE II III IV Highland Park, NJ
Aveneda Santa Fe – Public Installation Buenos Aires, AR
2006 Medium NYC – Emergency Arts Chelsea New York, NY
Clysmacana – Mason Gross BFA Thesis Exhibition New Brunswick, NJ
2002 Mind in Progress – Isabel Percy West Gallery Oakland, CA
PRESS
2011 SF Weekly Perfect Place No Place Exhibition Review San Francisco, CA
2010 East Bay Express, Exhibition Review by De Witt Cheng Berkeley, CA
Pahrump Valley Times, Open Studio by Richard Stephen Beatty, NV
EnculturateVegas, Exhibition Review by Brian Paco Alvarez Las Vegas, NV
2009 Share.TV Interview Cambridge, MA
ADBUSTERS, Featured Artist in July/August Issue International
ABQ Journal, ‘Elements’ by Dan Mayfield Santa Fe, Albuquerque, NM
Starved Magazine: The Perceptionist, Artist Interview, May New York, NY
Albus Cavus, Press/Blog Washington DC
TheARTlove Blog: “Paypal the New Medici?” by Diana Rico Taos, NM
2008 ITCH Magazine: Issue e.02 fall Woodstock, South Africa
FlankStak Magazine: Featured Artist (4 page spread) National
THE Magazine: Santa Fe: Critical Reflections Exhibition Review June 2008
The HorseFly: The Pulse – Art in Taos: Today and Yesterday. Taos, NM
The Tempo: In Galleries: Exhibition Review May 1sr 2008 Taos, NM
2007 WTF Magazine: Featured Artist January 2007
2006 Medium Ink: Exhibition Catalog. Summer 2006 New York, NY
AWARDS/ GRANTS
2011 San Francisco Foundation Murphy & Cadogan Grant San Francisco, CA
2011 SPARK Grant (SiCA) Stanford, CA
2011 ASSU (SiCA) Project Grant Stanford, CA
2010 Supported Fellow at The Goldwell Open Air Museum Las Vegas, NV
2009 The Bay Area Public Art Academy Fellow San Francisco, CA
2009 The Drawings Center Viewing Program New York, NY
2009 Bay Area Artist Registry San Francisco, CA
2008 The Helen Wurlitzer Foundation Residency Grant Taos, NM
2004 Silas H. Rhodes Merit Scholarship New York, NY
2003 The Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Scholarship New York, NY
2001 CCA Creative Achievement Award San Francisco, CA
CURATORIAL
2006 Hybridity/Ambivalence New York, NY
Amos Eno Gallery 530 W 25th Street.
TEACHING ACADEMIA
2010 -2012 Stanford University Teachers Assistant: Kinetic Sculpture with Trimpin
Interactive Arts with Paul DiMarinis, Painting and Drawing Stanford, CA
2009-2010 Private Art Instructor Bay Area, CA
2008 First Choice Tutoring, Albuquerque Public Schools Albuquerque, NM
Tutor 2nd-5th grade (Math, Reading and Writing)
COLLECTIONS
Yulia’s works have been placed in the public collections of City of Albuquerque, Warehouse 21,
South Broadway Cultural Center, The Helena Wurlitzer Foundation, Goldwell Open Air Museum,
Rasputin Music. Private collections across the US, South America and Europe.
