acrylic, ink, charcoal, ash, coepsis flowers, dry pigment, paper, and glitter on canvas
82 x 65 in | 208.3 x 165.1 cm
Yulia Pinkusevich
The Fire Next Time, 2025
Yulia Pinkusevich
Acrylic and ink on canvas
42 x 62 in | 106.7 x 157.5 cm
If you can fly and be a bird then you can see the forest burn, 2023
Acrylic, ink, mica, ash, charcoal, soot, glitter on canvas
65 x 82 in | 165.1 x 208.3 cm
Yulia Pinkusevich
Yulia Pinkusevich
Breath of Life (Air), 2023
acrylic, ink, ash, charcoal, glitter, and dry pigment on canvas
82 x 65 in | 208.3 x 165.1 cm
The Freedom To Find That Lightness (Blue Flame) A, 2026
Ink and acrylic on canvas
38 x 32 in | 96.5 x 81.3 cm
Yulia Pinkusevich
The Freedom To Find That Lightness (Blue Flame) B, 2026
Ink acrylic, ash and wax on canvas
32 x 38 in | 81.3 x 96.5 cm
Yulia Pinkusevich
Freedom To Find That Lightness (Blue Flame) C, 2026
and acrylic on canvas
32 x 38 in | 81.3 x 96.5 cm
Yulia Pinkusevich
The
Ink
Freedom To Find That Lightness (Blue Flame) D, 2026
Ink, acrylic and dry pigment on canvas
38 x 32 in | 96.5 x 81.3 cm
Yulia Pinkusevich
The
Yulia Pinkusevich
Isorithm 5, 2018
Charcoal, Pencil, Ink & beeswax on Fabriano Artistico Paper
55 x 52 in
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Yulia Pinkusevich
Sacred Flame 1, 2024
Ink and acrylic on canvas
Hanging: carborundum mineral rock, copper chain, fava bean
16 x 12 in
40.6 x 30.5 cm
Ink, acrylic, mica, flowers, dried pigment on canvas
Hanging: Copper chain, seed, shell
16 x 12 in | 40.6 x 30.5 cm
Yulia Pinkusevich
Sacred Flame 5, 2026
16 x 12 in | 40.6 x 30.5 cm
Yulia Pinkusevich Sacred Flame 6, 2024
Ink and acrylic on canvas
Hanging: Carved bone, copper chain, shell, and seed
Hanging: seeds, shell, copper wire
16 x 12 in | 40.6 x 30.5 cm
Yulia Pinkusevich Sacred Flame 7, 2026
Acrylic, ink, mica on canvas
Acrylic, ink and paper on canvas
Hanging: copper chain, shell, bone, and seed
16 x 12 in | 40.6 x 30.5 cm
Yulia Pinkusevich
Sacred Flame 9, 2026
YULIA PINKUSEVICH ARTIST STATEMENT
B. 1982, KHARKIV, UKRAINE; LIVES AND WORKS IN OAKLAND, CA
Yulia Pinkusevich is a San Francisco Bay Area based visual artist and educator, working primarily in drawing, painting and installation. She creates projects and large-scale environments that consider our ecological and social systems. Her work observes land critically, focusing on the psychology of spaces that sentient beings inhabit. Using art as a vehicle to merge physical and psychological parallels, she creates work that centers empathetic and historic perspectives in order to tackle contemporary challenges.
Her background itself is rooted in change. Born and raised in the USSR at a time of great political upheaval and uncertainty. Upon the collapse of the Soviet Union, her family fled the eastern bloc as refugees, immigrating to New York City. She later relocated to California first to attend college and later graduate school, continuing to reside in the Bay Area to this day. Her work stems from her identity as an immigrant of Siberian & Ukrainian roots. Her art explores dualities and the complex relationships between her blended identity and home countries. Formally, the work is engaged with the direct experience of the viewer through perspectival illusion and spatial perception that play with the subconscious and cognitive understanding of space. By breaking logical perspectives she creates illusions of impossible spaces, non-places or utopias that shift the viewpoint to the panoptic.
YULIA PINKUSEVICH CURRICULUM VITAE
B. 1982, KHARKIV, UKRAINE; LIVES AND WORKS IN OAKLAND, CA
EDUCATION
2012 MFA, Studio Practice, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
2006 BFA, Painting, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
SELECTED SOLO AND DUO EXHIBITIONS
2026 Upcoming, Kutlesa, New York, NY
Cathy Lu and Yulia Pinkusevich: Emergence, Qualia Contemporary Art, Palo Alto, CA
2024 Yulia Pinkusevich: Regeneratrix, Marlborough, London, United Kingdom
2023 Marlborough, Solo Booth, The Armory Show, New York, NY
Manifold September 2023, Midnight Artist, Salesforce Tower, San Francisco, CA
2022 Very Yellow White Flash, Round Weather Gallery, Oakland, CA
2021 Sakha Aesthesis, Post Collapse Art, Portland, OR
Rupture of the Mundane Plane, Qualia Contemporary Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
Calm Under the Waves, Archer Gallery, Clark College, Vancouver, WA
2019 Buddha Brow, Wildlands, Healdsburg, CA
2018 Isorithmic, Local Language, Oakland, CA
Double Vision, A Long Wait, Fort Gorges, Portland, ME
2017 Stones Unturned, Black Crown Gallery, Oakland, CA
2016 The Recollections of Stones Unturned, Kent Fine Art, New York, NY
Extraterrestrial, Kent Fine Art, New York, NY
Polyscape, SFMOMA Artists Gallery Curatorial Project, San Francisco, CA
2015 SIMA, Stanford Public Art Commission, McMurtry Building, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Pushing Boundaries, Kent Fine Art, New York, NY
2014 The Glory of a Tool is Seldom Judged by its Handle, Recology, San Francisco, CA Thresholds, Alter Space, San Francisco, CA
2013 Reversion, Redux Contemporary Art Center, Charleston, SC
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 Phantom, Johnson Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2024 From River to Ocean, LH Horton Jr Gallery, San Joaquin Delta College, Stockton, CA
Atlanta Art Fair, Johnson Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, GA
WOW MOM: Making Art / Making Life, curated by Klea McKenna, Yulia Pinkusevich, and Angie Wilson, 120710, Berkeley, CA
The Dump Show, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Out of Sight: Survey Science and the Hidden West, Autry Museum of the American West, Los Angeles, CA
Full Body Chills, Anglim/Trimble Gallery, San Francisco, CA
One Last Round, Round Weather Gallery, Oakland, CA
Millsies, K Imperial Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
Holographic Skies, SFArtsED Gallery, Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, CA
Reclaimed: The Art of Recology, Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT
Reclaimed: The Art of Recology, Irving Archives and Museum, Irving, TX
YULIA PINKUSEVICH CURRICULUM VITAE
B. 1982, KHARKIV, UKRAINE; LIVES AND WORKS IN OAKLAND, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS (CONT.)
2023
Schema: World as Diagram, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY
In Search of the Miraculous, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY
Reclaimed: The Art of Recology, Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, WI
Reclaimed: The Art of Recology, Stauth Memorial Museum, Montezuma, KS
2022 Paperwork: 15 Years of Collecting by the Achenbach Foundation, Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA
Transparency / Opacity, Saint Joseph’s Arts Society, San Francisco, CA
2021 Wind Over Water, Round Weather Gallery, Oakland, CA
Reclaimed: The Art of Recology, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
Where the Heart Is: Art by Immigrant Artists, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA
2020 The de Young Open, de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA
This Will Be the End of You, Gray Area Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2019 Between Them, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Recology at San Francisco Department of the Environment, San Francisco, CA
Built Environments, San Francisco State University Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Alumni Editions Exhibition, Local Language, Oakland, CA
2018 With Liberty and Justice for Some, Children’s Museum of the Arts, New York, NY
2017 With Liberty and Justice for Some, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
Detritus, Institute of Contemporary Art San José, San José, CA
Group Hang, Facebook AIR Alumni Exhibition, The Lab, San Francisco, CA
Sanctuary City: With Liberty and Justice for Some, SFAC Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2016 Architecture and the City, American Institute of Architects, San Francisco, CA
Reality Check, Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago, IL
Laserbeams Technomania!, The Compound Gallery, Oakland, CA
2015 Autodesk Pier 9 AiR Exhibition, San Francisco, CA
Ukrainian Diaspora: Women Artists 1908–2015, Ukrainian Museum, New York, NY
SF Chronicle Building, Recology Artist-in-Residence Exhibition, San Francisco, CA Thoreau Center for Sustainability, San Francisco, CA
SELECTED ART FAIRS
2025 ART SG, Kutlesa, Singapore
2024 Atlanta Art Fair, Johnson Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2023 The Armory Show, Marlborough, New York, NY
AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS, RESIDENCIES, AND GRANTS
2024 Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, National Air and Space Museum, Washington, DC College of Arts, Media and Design Dean’s and Seed Grant, Northeastern University Wassaic Project Artist-in-Residence, Wassaic, NY
2023–2024 Quigley Fellowship, Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Mills College at Northeastern University, Oakland, CA
YULIA PINKUSEVICH CURRICULUM VITAE
B. 1982, KHARKIV, UKRAINE; LIVES AND WORKS IN OAKLAND, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS (CONT.)
2023
Schema: World as Diagram, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY
In Search of the Miraculous, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY
Reclaimed: The Art of Recology, Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, WI
Reclaimed: The Art of Recology, Stauth Memorial Museum, Montezuma, KS
2022 Paperwork: 15 Years of Collecting by the Achenbach Foundation, Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA
Transparency / Opacity, Saint Joseph’s Arts Society, San Francisco, CA
2021 Wind Over Water, Round Weather Gallery, Oakland, CA
Reclaimed: The Art of Recology, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
Where the Heart Is: Art by Immigrant Artists, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA
2020 The de Young Open, de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA
This Will Be the End of You, Gray Area Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2019 Between Them, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Recology at San Francisco Department of the Environment, San Francisco, CA
Built Environments, San Francisco State University Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Alumni Editions Exhibition, Local Language, Oakland, CA
2018 With Liberty and Justice for Some, Children’s Museum of the Arts, New York, NY
2017 With Liberty and Justice for Some, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
Detritus, Institute of Contemporary Art San José, San José, CA
Group Hang, Facebook AIR Alumni Exhibition, The Lab, San Francisco, CA
Sanctuary City: With Liberty and Justice for Some, SFAC Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2016 Architecture and the City, American Institute of Architects, San Francisco, CA
Reality Check, Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago, IL
Laserbeams Technomania!, The Compound Gallery, Oakland, CA
2015 Autodesk Pier 9 AiR Exhibition, San Francisco, CA
Ukrainian Diaspora: Women Artists 1908–2015, Ukrainian Museum, New York, NY
SF Chronicle Building, Recology Artist-in-Residence Exhibition, San Francisco, CA Thoreau Center for Sustainability, San Francisco, CA
SELECTED ART FAIRS
2025 ART SG, Kutlesa, Singapore
2024 Atlanta Art Fair, Johnson Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2023 The Armory Show, Marlborough, New York, NY
AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS, RESIDENCIES, AND GRANTS
2024 Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, National Air and Space Museum, Washington, DC College of Arts, Media and Design Dean’s and Seed Grant, Northeastern University Wassaic Project Artist-in-Residence, Wassaic, NY
2023–2024 Quigley Fellowship, Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Mills College at Northeastern University, Oakland, CA
