Yuliya Lanina is an interdisciplinary artist whose work bridges traditional media with new technologies. She creates alternate realities in her works-ones based on sexuality, trauma and identity.
Lanina has exhibited extensively both nationally and internationally, including Elizabet Ney Museum (Austin, TX, 2023), Rabotaroom (Milan, Italy, 2023), MuseumsQuartier Wien (Vienna, Austria, 2021), SXSW Interactive (Austin, TX, 2019), Cleveland Institute of Art (Cleveland, OH, 2013), State Museum of Modern Art (Moscow, Russia, 2012), Patrick Heide Gallery (London, UK, 2011), SIGGRAPH Asia (Yokohama, Japan, 2009), Beijing Biennial (Beijing, China, 2009), Seoul Art Museum (Seoul, Korea, 2006). Her 2022 solo show at Xposed gallery on New York’s High Line was viewed by more than 1,000 people per day over four weeks.
Lanina performances have been featured in OUTSider Festival (2020, 2021), Teatro Santa Ana (San Miguel De Allende, Mexico, 2019), Blanton Museum of Art (Austin, TX, 2019), Creative Tech Week (NY, NY, 2019), TURN UP Multimedia (Tucson, AZ, 2019), SEAMUS National Conference (Eugene, OH, 2018), and Fusebox Festival (Austin, TX, 2016).
The screening venues for her animations include Austrian Film Museum (Vienna, Austria, 2022), Project Arts Centre (Lithuania, 2019), Le Carreau du Temple (Paris, France, 2018), Museum of Contemporary Art (North Miami, FL, 2012), El Museo Cultural, (Santa Fe, NM, 2010), Museum Ludwig (Germany, 2007), and Global Art & Moving Images Awards, Strata Foundation, Pinsiö, Finland (2013). Lanina’s most recent animation "Gefilte Fish" won Best International Short Film at Tamuz Shomron Film Festival (Israel, 2024) and an Honorable Mention at the Female Eye Film Festival (Toronto, Canada 2023).
Lanina’s professional honors include fellowships and scholarships from Artpace International Art Residency (SA, 2023), Fulbright (Vienna, Austria, 2020), The Puffin Foundation (NJ, 2019), Marble House Project (Vermont, 2017), Headlands Art Center (CA, 2013), Yaddo (NY, 2022, 2011) and CORE Cultural Funding Program (Austin, TX, 2014-2022).
Lanina’s work was featured on the front cover of Austin Chronicle (2023) weekly newspaper and reviewed in The Forward (2022), Glasstire (2020), Houston Press (2016), Australian Art Review (2010), Brooklyn Rail (2006), Art ReView (2001), Bloomberg News (2007), Beijing Today (2006) and other publications. Yuliya was listed among the “top 10 artists in NYC now” by Revolt Magazine and received an honorable citation from the New York State Assembly in 2013. An essay about her work is forthcoming in the scholarly journal Feminist Studies.
Lanina’s collaborative projects, for which she created visuals to be displayed alongside performances by dancers or musicians, have been presented at Kronos Quartet’s Festival (2021), San Diego Museum of Art (CA, 2018), National Museum the Palace of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania (Lithuania, 2015), Carnegie Hall Neighborhood Series, National Sawdust (Brooklyn, NY, 2015) and the New Museum Festival (NY, NY, 2010). Her collaborators included performers like Kronos Quartet and violinist Johnny Gandelsman; composers Nina C. Young, José Martínez, Vladimir Rannev, Russell Pinkston, Sam Lipman and Yevgeniy Sharlat; choreographers Caron Eule and Andrea Ariel.
Lanina holds an MFA in Combined Media from Hunter College and a BFA in Painting and Drawing from SUNY Purchase College. She is currently Assistant Professor of Practice at the Department of Arts and Entertainment Technologies at The University of Texas at Austin.
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