Yulia Pinkusevich Ukrainian-American, b. 1982

Yulia Pinkusevich is an artist and educator born in Kharkiv, Ukraine (USSR). Upon the collapse of the Soviet Union, her family fled the eastern block 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 San Francisco Bay Area to this day. She holds a Masters of Fine Arts from Stanford University and Bachelors of Fine Arts from Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts. Yulia has exhibited nationally and internationally including solo projects and exhibitions in Paris, France, Buenos Aires, Argentina, London, UK.

Yulia’s art is in the public collection of the deYoung Museum, Stanford University, Facebook/Meta HQ, Google HQ and the City of Albuquerque amongst others. She has been awarded a 2024 Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship at the National Air and Space Museum, other fellowships include Gray Area Arts Foundation, Wildlands, Lucid Arts Foundation, Autodesk Pier 9, Recology, Cite des Arts International Paris, Headlands Center for the Arts, Vashon AIR and many others. Yulia has lectured at Stanford University and is currently an Associate Professor of Studio Art holding joint appointments at the College of Art Media and Design and Mills College at Northeastern University in Oakland, California. She lives and creates works on unceded Ohlone territory.