Yulia Iosilzon (b. 1992, Moscow, Russia) is an Israeli artist who lives and works in London. Yulia Iosilzon creates art laden with vibrant washes of colour incorporated over transparent silks and cloths. Grounding her works within narrative and anecdote, the artist cites children's illustration and theater as sources of inspiration, encouraging her lyrical works to be understood as scenes within a comic strip. Figures and faces emerge from the surface of the canvases before dissolving into foliage, water, and the bodies of animals. Iosilzon often repeats symbols and motifs throughout her paintings, sculptures, and installations, building up an iconographic arsenal which she uses to comment on personal, social and political issues.
Read MoreShe graduated both from the Slade School of Fine Art and the Royal College of Art and has won several prizes for her work, including the Audrey Wykeham Prize in 2017 and the Bloomberg New Contemporaries prize in 2019. Recent solo exhibitions were held at Sapling Gallery, London (2022); De Brock Gallery, Knokke (2022); Foundry, Seoul (2022); Carvalho Park, New York (2021); Berntson Bhattacharjee, Stockholm (2021); Huxley Parlour, London (2021) and Osnova, Moscow (2020).
Text courtesy Osnova gallery.
