Yulia Pinkusevich was born in 1982 in Kharkiv, Ukraine (USSR). After immigrating to New York at age 8, Pinkusevich received a degree from Rutgers University (2006) and an MFA degree from Stanford University (2012). Notable collections include the deYoung Museum, Stanford University, Meta HQ, Google HQ, and The City of Albuquerque amongst others. She has been awarded residency fellowships from the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, Gray Area Arts Foundation, Lucid Arts Foundation, Autodesk Pier 9, Recology (San Francisco), Cité Internationale des Arts (Paris), and Headlands Center for the Arts, among others. The artist is currently an Associate Professor of Studio Art at Northeastern University, holding joint appointments in the College of Art Media and Design at Mills College.
Recent solo exhibitions include Regeneratrix, at Marlborough London (2024); Marlborough Solo Booth, Armory Show, New York (2023); ‘Very Yellow White Flash’ Round Weather Gallery, Oakland, California (2022); ‘Sakha Aesthesis’, Post Collapse Art, Portland, Oregon (2021); ‘Rupture of the Mundane Plane’, Qualia Contemporary Gallery, Palo Alto, California (2021); ‘Calm Under the Waves’, Archer Gallery, Clark College, Vancouver (2021). Selected group exhibitions include ‘Out of Sights, Survey Science and the Hidden West’ at the Autry Museum, Los Angeles, CA part of (Pacific Standard Time Art 2024/25) ‘Reclaimed: The Art of Recology’, Stauth Memorial Museum, Montezuma, Kansas (2023); ‘SCHEMA: World as Diagram’, Marlborough, New York (2023); ‘Reclaimed: The Art of Recology’, Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, Wisconsin (2023); ‘In Search of the Miraculous’, Marlbor- ough, New York (2022); ‘Paperwork: 15 Years of Collecting by the Achenbach Foundation’, Legion of Honor Museum, San Francisco, California (2022); ‘Transparency/Opacity’, Saint Joseph Art Society, San Francisco, California (2022); ‘Wind Over Water’, Round Weather Gallery, Oakland, California (2021); ‘Where the Heart Is: Art by Immigrant Artists’, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, California (2021).
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