About

Yana Payusova, born in Leningrad, USSR, holds an MFA in Interdisciplinary Media Arts Practices from the University of Colorado, Boulder. Her studio practice—grounded in painting, sculpture, and installation—examines the tension between interior life and collective identity, often through the lenses of power, gender, and cultural displacement. She has exhibited widely in the U.S. and internationally, with recent shows at the Museu de Ceràmica de l’Alcora (Spain), Ceramic Avenue Art Gallery (Jingdezhen, China), Santa Joana Museum (Aveiro, Portugal), Conduit Gallery (Dallas, USA), New Taipei City Yingge Ceramics Museum (Taiwan), and the 63rd Premio Faenza (Italy).

Her work is held in the permanent collections of the DeCordova Museum (Lincoln, MA), Boston Public Library (Boston, MA), Museu de Ceràmica de l'Alcora (L’Alcora, Spain), and the Crocker Art Museum (Sacramento, CA). Payusova has been an Artist-in-Residence at Guldagergaard International Ceramic Research Center (Denmark) and C.R.E.T.A. Rome (Italy), and a Visiting Artist at Anderson Ranch Art Center (Colorado). In 2023, she was commissioned to create an installation for The Real Unreal, Meow Wolf’s fourth permanent exhibition in Grapevine, Texas. She is currently Assistant Professor of Practice and FYE Program Chair at the University of Arizona School of Art.