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
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