Yulia Pinkusevich is an artist and educator born in Kharkiv, Ukraine (USSR). Upon the collapse of the Soviet Union, her family fled the eastern bloc as refugees, immigrating to New York City later New Mexico and California. She holds a MFA from Stanford University and BFA from Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts, earning both with high honors. She has exhibited nationally and internationally including site-specific projects executed in Paris, France and Buenos Aires, Argentina and London, UK and Athens, Greece.
Her art is in the public collection of the deYoung Museum, Legion of Fine Art both in San Francisco, Stanford University, Facebook/Meta HQ, Google HQ, Recology, Industry Capitol and the city of Albuquerque amongst others. She was awarded the 2024 Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.. Other fellowships include Autodesk Pier 9, Recology, Cite des Arts International (Paris), Headlands Center for the Arts, and Vashon AIR, Gray Area Arts Foundation, Wassaic Project, Lucid Arts Foundation, amongst others. She has lectured at Stanford University and is currently an Associate Professor of Studio Art at the College of Art Media and Design & Mills College at Northeastern University in Oakland, California. She lives and creates works on unceded Ohlone territory. Her work is represented by Kutlesa Gallery, Switzerland/New York.
