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
2020–Present 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
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
2022 E Street Gallery. Body Image! Sacramento, CA
2022 The Gallery at UTA. Reminiscing the Now: Directions in Contemporary Clay, Arlington, TX
2022 The Gallery at UTA. Introductions, Arlington, TX
2022 Conduit Gallery. Clay Bodies: Expressions in Ceramics, Dallas, TX
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
2020 Public Art Commission, large-scale collaborative mural (10 x 70 ft.), acrylic, North Texas Genome Center, University of Texas, Arlington, TX
LECTURES, PRESENTATIONS, WORKSHOPS
2021 May 1-3, 2021. I was invited to present an artist lecture at the California Conference for Advancement of Ceramic Arts, Davis, CA
2020 June 1-3, 2020. I was invited to teach a series of workshops that investigated the
importance of materiality to recollection and personal narrative at the Anderson Ranch
Art Center as part of their “Ceramic Critical Dialogue" workshop series.
2020 May 1, 2020. I was invited to present an artist lecture at the California Conference for Advancement of Ceramic Arts (online due to COVID-19), Davis, CA
2019 October 9, 2019. I was invited to present an artist lecture at the Museum of Russian Art (TMORA), Minneapolis, MN
2019 October 10-11, 2019. I participated on a panel discussion with curator Jill Foote-Hutton and conducted a four-hours workshop at the Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis, MN
2018 August 2, 2018. I was invited to present an artist lecture at the Tucson Art Museum in conjunction with the Arizona Biennial, Tucson, AZ
2018 August 15-26, 2018. I was invited to teach two Mixed-Media workshops at the Anderson Ranch Art Center and present an artist lecture, Snowmass Village, CO
2018 September 2018. I was invited to present an artist lecture at the Rubin Center for the Visual Arts in conjunction with my solo exhibition, El Paso, TX
2013 August 2013. I was invited to be a panelist at Photoville in conjunction with international exhibition Cruel and Unusual. Brooklyn, NY
2013 August 2018. I was invited to teach two Mixed-Media workshops at the Anderson Ranch Art Center and present an artist lecture, Snowmass Village, CO
2011 August 2011. I was invited to present an artist lecture at the Center for Creative Photography in conjunction with my two-person exhibition at the Joseph Gross Gallery, Tucson, AZ
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
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
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
The National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA).
GALLERY AFFILIATIONS
Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA
Charlie Cummings Gallery, Gainesville, FL
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