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Yana Payusova
Boston, MA
Cell: (617) 435.84.77
E-mail: payusova@gmail.com
Web: http://www.payusova.com

Co-founder of 6+: a women's art collective: http://www.6plus.org

Born in St. Petersburg, Russia

EDUCATION
   
2006 M.F.A. Media Arts, University of Colorado at Boulder, CO, USA
   
2004 National Graduate Seminar, The Photography Institute, Columbia University, New York, USA
   
2001  B.A. Studio Art, Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, IL, USA
   
1996 Diploma, St. Petersburg Fine Art Lyceé, St. Petersburg, Russia
   
SOLO AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
   
2010 Yana Payusova. Sarah Doyle Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI (November)
   
  Yana Payusova: Kunstkamera. Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston. MA (September)
   
  Two-Headed Tales. Lycoming College Art Gallery, Williamsport, PA (two-person show with Joseph Farbrook)
   
2007 When My Neighbor Told Me I Would Die. Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA
   
2005 Yana Payusova: Emerging Artists Series. Mimi Ferzt Gallery, New York, NY
   
  Martyrs, Saints and Liars. Synapse Gallery and Center for Photography, Benton Harbor, MI (two-person show with Sama Alshaibi)
   
SELECTED GROUP AND INVITATIONAL EXHIBITIONS
   
2010 FUCK UPS, FABLES AND FIASCOS. Galerie Caprice Horn. Berlin, Germany
   
  Seeing Double, Attleboro Art Museum, MA (Juror's Award)
   
2009 London International Creative Competition 2009, Shortlist
   
  "Arab Youth Festival,"  Turning Our Tongues project, 6+ and 18 young women from Dheisheh Refugee Camp, Rome, Italy.
   
  "Incheon Women Artists' Bienniale,"  "Tuning" exhibition, curated by Heng-Gil Han, Incheon, South Korea.
   
  NEPS Cambridge Art Association. Kathryn Schultz Gallery, Cambridge, MA (Juried by William Stover, Curator, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
   
  ARTSWorcester Biennial 2009, Aurora Gallery, Worcester, MA (Juried by William Rudolph, Curator, Worcester Art Museum)
   
2008 The 2008 DeCordova Annual Exhibition. DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA
   
  A Day of Collaborative Performance (performance with the 6+ collective), Bronx Museum, NYC, NY
   
  Scratching the Surface. Hanover Center for the Performing Arts, Worcester, MA
   
  Secrets. Glass Curtain Gallery, Chicago, IL
   
2007 Secrets.The Dairy Center for the Arts, Boulder, CO
   
  Sun Pictures to Mega Pixels: Archaic Processes to Alternative Realities. The Williamsburg Art and Historical Center, Williamsburg, NY
   
  Journey, Nobel Women's Initiative's First International Women's Conference: “Women Redefining Peace in the Middle East & Beyond”, Galway, Ireland
   
  A Cool Breeze, ARTSWorcester Aurora Gallery, Worcester, MA
   
  Art Chicago 2007, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Chicago, IL
   
2006 Worcester Artist Group, Juried Show, Worcester, MA (juror Nato Thompson, MASS MoCA)
   
  Secrets. The Khalil Sakakini Center, Ramallah, West Bank, Palestine
   
  Secrets. Al Hoash Contemporary Art Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel
   
  Secrets. Al-Kahf Gallery, International Center of Bethlehem, Palestine
   
  Cultural Signs 2. Museo Universitario, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellin, Colombia
   
  Transformations – Photography of the 21st Century. Center for the Living Arts, Mobile, AL
   
  Effusion. CU Art Museum, Boulder, CO
   
  Visualizations Without Borders. Escuela Nacional de Atres Plasticas, Mexico City, Mexico
   
2005 Pingyao International Photo Festival. Pingyao, China
   
2004 Common Wounds. The International Center of Bethlehem, Bethlehem, Palestine (traveling exhibition including the cities of Ramallah, Hebron and the Gaza Strip)
   
  The Discourse of Others. Salon de Artes Plasticas, Mexico City, Mexico
   
  Visiones del Norte. Academia de San Carlos, Mexico City, Mexico (catalogue)
   
  Fresh Produce: a collection of new works from Colorado artists. Gallery Sovereign, Boulder, CO
   
  Benefit and Anniversary Celebration for Gallery Sovereign. Boulder, CO
   
  Art From Pedagogy. National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico
   
  The 2004 National Graduate Seminar Fellows Exhibition. The LeRoy Neiman Gallery, New York, NY
   
  WAR. Gallery Sovereign, Boulder, CO
   
  Constructing Identity. College Hall Gallery, Tarrant College, Hurst, TX
   
  Risqué. Auction exhibition for the Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO
   
2003 Sense Data: an evening of audio-visual arrangements, Soiled Dove, Denver, CO
   
  Death & Other Exits. Governors Palace, Tlaxcala, Mexico
   
  After the Fall. Casa de La Cultura, Oaxaca, Mexico
   
  E.D.A.S., Experimental DVDs screening, Boulder, CO
   
2002 Cultural Identity. Campbell Hall Gallery, Monmouth, OR
   
  Sonnenschein Gallery, Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, IL
   
COMMUNITY PROJECT EXHIBITIONS
   
  Turning Our Tongues (in conjunction with 6+ art collective and the young women of Deheisheh Refugee Camp)
   
  Middle Eastern Studies Association Annual Conference, Boston, USA, 2006
   
  The Nobel Women’s Initiative International Conference, Galway, Ireland, 2007
   
  Submerged Entropy: Recovering Cultural Voice, Michigan, USA, 2007
   
  Invent-L Conference 2007: Imaging Place, Gainesville, USA, 2007
   
  “Sultana’s Dream”: SWACC’s 10th Anniversary Exhibition, Exit Art, NY, NY, USA, 2007
   
REPRESENTATION
   
  Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA
   
BIBLIOGRAPHY
   
2010 Yana Payusova and Joseph Farbrook at Lycoming College, article be Matthew Parrish, Williamsport Sun-Gazette, March 7.
   
2009 Falling Through the Cracks, Teenage Identity in the Midst of Chaos, Publio Magazine, Issue #4, May 2009
   
  Russian Youth, Prisons & the Icon: An Interview With Yana Payusova, interview by Pete Brook, Prison  Photography, April 30, 2009
   
2008 From Russia With Talent, article by Emma Brown, The Boston Globe, July 6, 2008
   
  The View From Here, article by Cate McQuaid, The Boston Globe, May 23, 2008
   
  Flash Without Fire, article by Greg Cook, The Boston Phoenix, May 13, 2008
   
  Expect the Unexpected at Annual DeCordova Show, article by Chris Bergeron, The Daily News Tribune, May 18, 2008
   
  Rachel Rosenfield Lafo, Catalog Essay, The DeCordova Annual, DeCordova Museum, May, 2008
   
  Hanover Rings With Art and Laughter; ARTSWorcester Gallery Opens at Theater.(LIVING), article by Nancy Sheehan, Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA), March 14, 2008
   
  Naughty By Nature, article by Randi Hopkins, The Boston Phoenix, March 10, 2008
   
2007 Bridging the Empathy Gap, review by Amelia Ishmael, Boulder Weekly, June 2, 2007
   
  "Sun Pictures to MegaPixels: Archaic Processes to Alternative Realities (Pre-and Post-Modernist Photography)", review by Brad Michael Moore, absolutearts.com
   
  The Unearthing of Secrets: Palestinian Art, 6+ and a Series of Transgressions, article by Maymanah Farhat, The Electronic Intifada, April 25, 2007
   
  The Unearthing of Secrets: Palestinian Art, 6+ and a Series of Transgressions, article by Maymanah Farhat, ArteEast – ArteNews, March 2007
   
2006 One on One: Yana Payusova, interview by Allen Fletcher, Worcester Magazine, November 30 - December 6, 2006 Volume 32, Number 11
   
  Artscope: New England’s Culture Magazine, WAG exhibition review by Brian Goslow, November/December 2006
   
  No Txt Magazine, featured artist, Issue #6, November
   
  Cooleh Magazine, featured artist, Volume 2, Issue 4, August
   
  Transformation, article by Thomas B. Harrison, Mobile Press-Register, May 7
   
2005 National Photography Competition, article by Althea Mock, CameraArts Magazine October/November
   
  Pingmag (Tokyo), featured artist, article by Uleshka Asher, September 15
   
  Cooleh Magazine, featured artist, Issue #4, April
   
  Prisoners of Perception. Martyrs, Saints & Liars exhibition review by Andrew S. Hughes, South Bend Tribune, January
   
2004 Arte de la Pedagogia, Difusión de la academia y la cultura, Año 5 Vol.1 No.17, review by George Rivera Ph.D, October
   
  Gallery Sovereign Demonstrates the Power of Political Art. WAR exhibition review by J. Gluckstern, The Daily Camera, March 4
   
  Milk Magazine, featured artist, Volume 5, October
   
COLLECTIONS • ARCHIVES

DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA

The Photography Institute Archive at The Getty Research Institute, The Getty Museum, Los Angeles, USA

Special Collections, Norlin Library, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO

Lake Forest Public Library, Lake Forest, IL

Various Private Collections