curriculum vitae

 

 

YANA PAYUSOVA
CURRICULUM VITAE

Name: Yana Payusova
Phone Number: (617) 435-8477
Email:  yana.payusova@uta.edu
Website: https://www.payusova.com/

EDUCATION

2006     MFA Interdisciplinary Media Arts Practices (IMAP), University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
2001     BA Studio Art, Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, IL
1996     Diploma, St. Petersburg Art Lycée, St. Petersburg, Russia

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2023 - Present Assistant Professor of Practice, Program Chair for FYE, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

2020–2023    Assistant Chair, Assistant Professor and Painting Area Coordinator, University of Texas, Arlington, TX

2016–2020         Lecturer, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

2006–2011         Adjunct Professor, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA

2003–2006         Graduate Part-Time Instructor, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO

SOLO EXHIBITIONS, TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2024 Conduit Gallery. Yana Payusova: Is Your Halo on Too Tight? Dallas, TX (October)
2023 The Real Unreal, Meow Wolf, permanent installation, Grapevine, TX
2022 Epperson Gallery. Yana Payusova: Gestures. Crockett, CA
2022 Weight, Power, Burden, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX
2022 Gestures, Epperson Gallery, Crockett, CA
2019 Yana Payusova: Revolutions, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA
2018 Yana Payusova: Revolutions, Rubin Center for the Visual Arts, El Paso, TX
2014 Dinner for Thirty Souls, Miller Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA
2013 A Walk Around the Bloc, Foster Gallery, Worcester, MA
2011 Painted Narrative, Sarah Doyle Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI
2011 A Tale of Two Heads (in collaboration with Joseph Farbrook), Joseph Gross Gallery, Tucson, AZ
2010 Kunstkamera, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA
2010 Two-Headed Tales, Lycoming College Gallery, Williamsport, PA (two-person show)
2007 When My Neighbor Told Me I Would Die, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA
2006 Effusion: MFA Thesis Exhibition, University of Colorado Art Museum, Boulder, CO
2005 Emerging Artist Series, Mimi Ferzt Gallery, New York, NY
2005 Martyrs, Saints and Liars, Synapse Gallery and Center for Photography, Benton Harbor, MI (two-person show)

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 C.R.E.T.A. Rome, Harvest of Shadows / Il raccolto delle ombre, Rome, Italy
2024 Ceramic Art Avenue Art Gallery, Reunion, Jingdezhen, China (catalogue)
2023 International Ceramic Competition of l’Alcora, Museu de Ceràmica de l’Alcora, Spain - Finalist
2023 Pleasure & Protest in Contemporary Figure Painting,
Fort Worth Contemporary, Fort Worth, TX
2023 Pleasure & Protest in Contemporary Figure Painting, Galleries of Contemporary Art, Colorado Springs, CO
2022 Taiwan Ceramics Biennale: Tangible World, The New Social Dynamics in Ceramics,
2022 Yinnge Ceramics Museum, New Taipei City, Taiwan (catalogue)
2022 Conduit Gallery, Clay Bodies: Expressions in Ceramics, Dallas, TX
2022 Reminiscing the Now: Directions in Contemporary Clay, The Gallery at UTA, Arlington, TX
2022 Introductions, The Gallery at UTA, Arlington, TX
2022 Currents New Media 2022, Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, NM
2022 E Street Gallery. Body Image! Sacramento, CA
2021 Charlie Cummings Gallery. Our Lives in Clay II. Gainesville, FL
2021 The Gallery at UTA. Faculty Biennial. Arlington, TX               
2021 International Juried Exhibition, Center for Contemporary Art, Bedminster, NJ
2020                 The 4th China + China (Shangyu) Ceramic Art and Design Exhibition, Jingdezhen Ceramic
Institute, Shaoxing City, China (Bronze Award)
2020                 A Generous Kingdom V, Verum Ultimum Art Gallery, Portland, OR (catalogue)
2020                 Epperson National Clay Competition Exhibition, Epperson Gallery, Crockett, CA (1st Place
Award)
2020                 Our Lives in Clay Exhibition, Charlie Cummings Gallery, Gainesville, FL
2020                 UTA Women's Faculty Exhibition (Online), University of Texas, Arlington, TX
2020                 30th Annual Benefit Art Auction, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA
2019                 Horror Vacui, Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis, MN (catalogue)
2019                 Faculty Biennial, The University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
2019                 29th Annual Benefit Art Auction, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
2018                 Currents: International New Media Festival, Santa Fe, NM
2018                 Arizona Biennial, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
2018                 28th Annual Benefit Art Auction, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
2018                 Sculpture Tucson, Tucson, AZ
2018                 Narrative Offerings, San Angelo Museum of Fine Art, Gallery Verde, San Angelo, TX
2017                 Annual Contemporary Art Survey, Lincoln Center, Fort Collins, CO
2017                 Faculty Biennial, The University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
2017                 Peopled Places, Helikon Gallery and Studios, Denver, CO
2017                 A Tile and a Vessel, Finn’s Gallery, Silver City, NM
2016                 26th Annual Benefit Art Auction, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
2016                 9th Biennial State of Clay, Lexington Art Society, Lexington, MA (catalogue)
2016                 All Fired Up, Piano Craft Gallery, Boston, MA
2015                 Biennale de la Ceramique: Exposition de Ceramique Contemporaine, Andenne Cultural
Center, Andenne, Belgium
2015                 Strange Figurations, Limner Gallery, Hudson, NY
2015                 Faculty Invites, Cloyde Snook Gallery, Adams State University, Alamosa, CO
2015                 Muses of Mount Helikon II, Helikon Gallery and Studios, Denver, CO
2015                 25th Annual Benefit Art Auction, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
2014                 Arise!, Gates Gallery, Denver Public Library, Denver, CO
2014                 Put a Wedge In It, Affinity Gallery, Saskatchewan, Canada
2013                 Memory Theater, Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
2013                 24th Annual Benefit Art Auction, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
2013                 Muses of Mount Helikon, Helikon Gallery and Studios, Denver, CO
2013                 Cruel and Unusual, Reportage Photography Festival, Sydney, Australia
2013                 Cruel and Unusual, Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh, Ireland
2013                 Art Southampton, Southampton, NY
2013                 ARTcetera, The Palace Plaza Castle, Boston, MA
2012                 Mad About Art + Design, McNeill Art Group Tribeca Project Space, New York, NY
2012                 Art Southampton, Southampton, NY
2012                 Cruel and Unusual, Nordelicht Gallery, Groningen, Netherlands
2012                 Cruel and Unusual, Melkweg Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2012                 23rd Annual Benefit Art Auction, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
2012                 PHOTOVILLE, Brooklyn, NY
2011                 ARTcetera, The Palace Plaza Castle, Boston, MA
2011                 Capture Cure, Pimilco Academy, London, United Kingdom
2011                 My Subject/My Self, Aurora Gallery, Worcester, MA
2011                 ARTSWorcester’s Biennial, Aurora Gallery, Worcester, MA (best in category: painting)
2011                 22nd Annual Benefit Art Auction, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
2010                 Fuck Ups, Fables and Fiascos, Gallerie Caprice Horn, Berlin, Germany
2010                 Seeing Double, Attleboro Art Museum, Attleboro, MA (juror’s award)
2009                 London International Creative Competition, London, United Kingdom
2009                 Turning Our Tongues project: 6+ and 18 young women from Dheisheh Refugee Camp,
Arab Youth Festival, Rome, Italy
2009                 Tuning, Incheon Women Artists’ Biennale, Incheon, South Korea (curated by Heng-Gil Han)
2009                 NEPS Cambridge Art Association, Kathryn Schultz Gallery, Cambridge, MA (juried by
William Stover, curator Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
2009                 ARTSWorcester’s Biennial, Aurora Gallery, Worcester, MA (juried by William Rudolph,
curator Worcester Art Museum)
2008                 DeCordova Annual Exhibition, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln,
MA (catalogue)
2008                 A Day of Collaborative Performance (Performance with the 6+ collective), Bronx Museum,
New York, NY
2008                 Scratching the Surface, Hanover Center for the Performing Arts, Worcester, MA
2008                 Secrets, Glass Curtain Gallery, Chicago, IL (catalogue)
2007                 Secrets, Dairy Center for the Arts, Boulder, CO
2007                 Sun Picture to Mega Pixels: Archaic Processes to Alternative Realities, Williamsburg Art
and Historical Center, Williamsburg, NY
2007                 A Cool Breeze Aurora Gallery, Worcester, MA
2007                 Art Chicago, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Chicago, IL
2006                 Worcester Artist Group Juried Show, Worcester, MA (juror Nato Thompson, MASSMOCA)
2006                 Secrets, Khalil Sakakini Center, Ramallah, West Bank, Palestine
2006                 Secrets, Al Hoash Contemporary Art Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel
2006                 Secrets, Al-Kahf Gallery at the International Center of Bethlehem, Bethlehem, West Bank, Palestine

AWARDS

2021                 Artist-in-Residence, Guldagergaard International Ceramic Research Center, Skælskør, Denmark (July 1-August 1)
2021                 Artist-in-Residence, Anderson Ranch Art Center, Snowmass Village, CO (April)
2020                 Bronze Award, The 4th China + China (Shangyu) Ceramic Art and Design Exhibition, Jingdezhen Ceramic Institute, Shaoxing City, China
2020                 First Place Award, Epperson National Clay Competition Exhibition, Epperson Gallery, Crockett, CA
2015                 Artist-in-Residence, Anderson Ranch Art Center, Snowmass Village, CO

COMMISSIONS

2023 The Real Unreal, Meow Wolf, permanent installation, Grapevine, TX

2020                     Public Art Commission, large-scale collaborative mural (10 x 70 ft.), acrylic, North Texas Genome Center, University of Texas, Arlington, TX

COLLECTIONS

DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
Boston Public Library, Boston, MA
Museu de Ceràmica de l'Alcora, L’Alcora, Spain
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
The Photography Institute Archive at the Getty Research Institute, Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Special Collections, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
Lake Forest Public Library, Lake Forest, IL
Numerous Private Collections

ARTIST RESIDENCIES

2024 Artist-in-Residence, CRETA Rome, Rome, Italy
2021                 Artist-in-Residence, Guldagergaard International Ceramic Research Center, Skælskør, Denmark
2021                 Artist-in-Residence, Anderson Ranch Art Center, Snowmass Village, CO
2015                 Artist-in-Residence, Anderson Ranch Art Center, Snowmass Village, CO

REVIEWS
2020
Yana Payusova – Artist Profile, JTW Ceramics, June 17
2019
Exposure, Ceramics Monthly, November 2019 Issue
Yana Payusova's Imperfect, Everyday, Confident Women, review by Greg Cook, Wonderland, April 6
The Ticket: What is Happening in the Local Arts World, review by Cate McQuaid, Boston Globe, March 24
2018
Cover Focus Plus, article by Shruti Jain. The Ideal Home and Garden - India, December 2018 Issue

2017
A Burst of Contemporary Ceramics Heading into the Weekend, review by Bill Rodgers, CFile, May 12
2014
Agrarian Labors with Biblical Passion at Miller Yezerski, review by Cate McQuaid, Boston Globe, June 17
2013
Time Magazine LightBox, July
Yana Payusova: Russian Folk Comics, Juxtapoz, March 9
2011
Cover Image, International Journal for Court Administration, Issue #7, December
Behind the Iron Curtain, review by Margaret Regan, Tucson Weekly, June 9
Celebrating local artists at ARTSWorcester, article by Nancy Sheehan, Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA), March 17
2010    
Yana Payusova and Joseph Farbrook at Lycoming College, article be Matthew Parrish, Williamsport Sun-Gazette, March 7
Top Ten Art Shows of the Year, article by Matthew Parrish, Williamsport Sun-Gazette, December 26
Wall-to-Wall Abstraction, article by Cate McQuaid, Boston Globe, September 22
2009    
Falling Through the Cracks, Teenage Identity in the Midst of Chaos, Publio Magazine, Issue #4, May
Russian Youth, Prisons & the Icon: An Interview with Yana Payusova, interview by Pete Brook, Prison Photography, April 30
2008    
From Russia With Talent, article by Emma Brown, The Boston Globe, July 6
The View from Here, article by Cate McQuaid, The Boston Globe, May 23
Flash Without Fire, article by Greg Cook, The Boston Phoenix, May 13
Expect the Unexpected at Annual DeCordova Show, article by Chris Bergeron, The Daily News Tribune, May 18
Catalog Essay by Rachel Rosenfield Lafo, The DeCordova Annual, DeCordova Museum, May
Hanover Rings with Art and Laughter; article by Nancy Sheehan, Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA), March 14
Naughty by Nature, article by Randi Hopkins, The Boston Phoenix, March 10