curriculum vitae
YANA PAYUSOVA
CURRICULUM VITAE
payusova@arizona.edu
payusova.com
EDUCATION
2006 MFA, Interdisciplinary Media Arts Practices, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO
2001 BA, Studio Art, Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, IL
1996 Diploma, St. Petersburg Art Lycée, St. Petersburg, Russia
SOLO & TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2025 Poodle’s Core, Krameramtshaus, Münster, Germany (two-person exhibition with Anne Kuckelhaus)
2024 Yana Payusova: Is Your Halo on Too Tight?, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX
2022 Yana Payusova: Gestures, Epperson Gallery, Crockett, CA
2022 Weight, Power, Burden, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX
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, Joseph Gross Gallery, Tucson, AZ (two-person exhibition with Joseph Farbrook)
2010 Kunstkamera, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA
2010 Two-Headed Tales, Lycoming College Gallery, Williamsport, PA (two-person exhibition with Joseph Farbrook)
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 exhibition with Sama Alshaibi)
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 Gyeonggi Ceramics Biennale, Gyeonggi Museum of Contemporary Ceramic Art, Icheon, Republic of Korea
2026 Claybash, Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, NJ (juried by Angelik Vizcarrondo-Laboy)
2026 Absence Takes Form, Wasserman Projects, Detroit, MI
2025 63rd Faenza Prize – International Biennial of Contemporary Art Ceramics, MIC – International Museum of Ceramics in Faenza, Faenza, Italy
2025 17th Ceramic Biennale of Aveiro, Santa Joana Museum, Aveiro, Portugal
2025 Mark | Image | Object, Patton-Malott Gallery, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, CO
2024 Harvest of Shadows / Il raccolto delle ombre, C.R.E.T.A. Rome, Rome, Italy
2024 Reunion, Ceramic Art Avenue Art Gallery, Jingdezhen, China
2023 International Ceramic Competition of l’Alcora, Museu de Ceràmica de l’Alcora, 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, Yingge Ceramics Museum, New Taipei City, Taiwan
2022 Clay Bodies: Expressions in Ceramics, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX
2022 Reminiscing the Now: Directions in Contemporary Clay, The Gallery at UTA, Arlington, TX
2022 Currents New Media 2022, Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, NM
2020 The 4th China + China (Shangyu) Ceramic Art and Design Exhibition, Jingdezhen Ceramic Institute, Shaoxing, China (Bronze Award)
2020 Epperson National Clay Competition Exhibition, Epperson Gallery, Crockett, CA (First Place Award)
2019 Horror Vacui, Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis, MN
2019 Faculty Biennial, University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
2018 Currents: International New Media Festival, Santa Fe, NM
2018 Arizona Biennial, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
2018 Narrative Offerings, San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, San Angelo, TX
2015 Biennale de la Céramique: Exposition de Céramique Contemporaine, Centre Culturel d’Andenne, Andenne, Belgium
2013 Memory Theater, Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
2013 Cruel and Unusual, Reportage Photography Festival, Sydney, Australia
2012 Cruel and Unusual, Melkweg Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2012 PHOTOVILLE, Brooklyn, NY
2010 Fuck Ups, Fables and Fiascos, Galerie Caprice Horn, Berlin, Germany
2010 Seeing Double, Attleboro Art Museum, Attleboro, MA (Juror’s Award)
2009 Turning Our Tongues, Arab Youth Festival, Rome, Italy
2009 Tuning, Incheon Women Artists’ Biennale, Incheon, Republic of Korea (curated by Heng-Gil Han)
2008 DeCordova Annual Exhibition, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA
2008 A Day of Collaborative Performance, Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, NY
2007 Journey, Nobel Women’s Initiative First International Women’s Conference, Galway, Ireland
2007 Art Chicago, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Chicago, IL
2006 Secrets, Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center, Ramallah, Palestine
2006 Secrets, Al Hoash Contemporary Art Gallery, Jerusalem
2006 Secrets, Al-Kahf Gallery at the International Center of Bethlehem, Bethlehem, Palestine
2006 Cultural Signs 2, Museo Universitario, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA
The Photography Institute Archive, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA
Museu de Ceràmica de l’Alcora, L’Alcora, Spain
Boston Public Library, Boston, MA
Special Collections, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO
Lake Forest Public Library, Lake Forest, IL
Private collections
selected cOMMISSIONS
2023 Kunstkamera, The Real Unreal, Meow Wolf, Grapevine, TX. Permanent installation.
2020 Public Art Commission, North Texas Genome Center, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX. Collaborative mural, acrylic, 10 × 70 ft.
GRANTS, AWARDS & HONORS
2026 Morgan Solomon Faculty Award, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
2025 Small Grant Award, School of Art, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
2024 Morgan Solomon Faculty Award, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
2024 Small Grant Award, School of Art, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
2022 National Science Foundation Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site Grant, Hybrid Design and Fabrication, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX (collaborating faculty)
2021 Dean’s Accolades Award, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX
2020 Bronze Award, The 4th China + China (Shangyu) Ceramic Art and Design Exhibition, Jingdezhen Ceramic Institute, Shaoxing, China
2020 First Place Award, Epperson National Clay Competition Exhibition, Epperson Gallery, Crockett, CA
ARTIST RESIDENCIES
2027 Visiting Artist Residency, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, CO (forthcoming)
2024 C.R.E.T.A. Rome, Rome, Italy
2021 Guldagergaard International Ceramic Research Center, Skælskør, Denmark
2021 Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, CO
2015 Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, CO
SELECTED PRESS & PUBLICATIONS
2024 “Top Five: November 14, 2024,” Glasstire, November 14
2023 “Clay and Mud: Recent Exhibitions in Dallas,” Glasstire, January 6
2023 Amber Scott, “Art Professor: ‘I Was Craving a Community Like UTA,’” UTA News, April 5
2022 Eve Hill-Agnus, “See These Art Exhibitions Before They Close in January,” D Magazine, December 28
2022 Steven Shaw, “UTA Art Professor Illustrates Soviet Nostalgia in Exhibit,” The Shorthorn, November 14
2021 Matthew Dols, “Sculptor, Painter + Professor Yana Payusova,” The Wise Fool Art Podcast, October
2020 John Walthier, “Yana Payusova – Artist Profile,” JTW Ceramics, June 17
2019 “Exposure,” Ceramics Monthly, November
2019 Greg Cook, “Yana Payusova’s Imperfect, Everyday, Confident Women,” Wonderland, April 6
2019 Cate McQuaid, “The Ticket: What is Happening in the Local Arts World,” The Boston Globe, March 24
2018 Shruti Jain, “Cover Focus Plus,” The Ideal Home and Garden – India, December
2017 Bill Rodgers, “A Burst of Contemporary Ceramics Heading into the Weekend,” CFile, May 12
2014 Cate McQuaid, “Agrarian Labors with Biblical Passion at Miller Yezerski,” The Boston Globe, June
2013 TIME LightBox, July
2013 “Yana Payusova: Russian Folk Comics,” Juxtapoz, March 9
2011 Margaret Regan, “Behind the Iron Curtain,” Tucson Weekly, June 9
2010 Matthew Parrish, “Yana Payusova and Joseph Farbrook at Lycoming College,” Williamsport Sun-Gazette, March 7
2010 Matthew Parrish, “Top Ten Art Shows of the Year,” Williamsport Sun-Gazette, December 26
2010 Cate McQuaid, “Wall-to-Wall Abstraction,” The Boston Globe, September 22
2009 Pete Brook, “Russian Youth, Prisons & the Icon: An Interview with Yana Payusova,” Prison Photography, April 30
2008 Emma Brown, “From Russia with Talent,” The Boston Globe, July 6
2008 Cate McQuaid, “The View From Here,” The Boston Globe, May 23
2008 Greg Cook, “Flash Without Fire,” The Boston Phoenix, May 13
2008 Rachel Rosenfield Lafo, catalog essay, The DeCordova Annual, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park
2008 Randi Hopkins, “Naughty by Nature,” The Boston Phoenix, March 10
SELECTED LECTURES, PANELS & VISITING ARTIST ENGAGEMENTS
2026 Artist Lecture, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, CO
2026 Critical Dialogue, Collective Individuality: Culture as Celebration, with Jean Shin and Juana Estrada Hernández, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, CO
2025 Artist Lecture, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, CO
2024 Artist + Critics Series, Galleries of Contemporary Art (GOCA), University of Colorado Colorado Springs, Colorado Springs, CO
2023 Visiting Artist Lecture and Demonstration, Galleries of Contemporary Art (GOCA), University of Colorado Colorado Springs, Colorado Springs, CO
2023 Visiting Artist Workshop, Bemis School of Art, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO
2023 Artist Lecture, Taoxichuan Art Center, Jingdezhen, China
2019 Artist Lecture, The Museum of Russian Art, Minneapolis, MN
2019 Roundtable Discussion, Horror Vacui, Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis, MN
2018 Artist Lecture, Rubin Center for the Visual Arts, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
2023–Present Associate Professor of Practice, First Year Experience Program Chair, School of Art, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
2020–2023 Assistant Professor of Art, Painting Area Coordinator, and Assistant Chair, Department of Art and Art History, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX
2016–2020 Lecturer, School of Art, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ