Yevgeniya Mikhailik is an artist, educator, and curator based in Southern California. Her studio work explores our methods of connecting, interpreting and identifying with the natural world, and our role in and responsibility to fragile ecosystems. A lot of her work addresses landforms and plants as beings, as a way to create a connection between the natural world and our own experiences, and to consider the same kind of kinship and empathy for the evolving environment as we are capable of experiencing with each other.
Contact: yevgeniyadraws@gmail.com
Available artwork: Salt Fine Art
Follow: @aah_yevgeniyaaa
BFA | CSU Long Beach, 2009
MFA | CSU Long Beach, 2013
Select Exhibitions
2022
ANGELS GATE CULTURAL CENTER Portals
2021
BREA GALLERY Drawn to Paper
2020
AQUILA PROJECTS Grounded in Modern Abstraction
RINGLING COLLEGE OF ART + DESIGN Left Coast Connection
OCEANSIDE MUSEUM OF ART
LAGUNA ART MUSEUM California Cool Art Auction 2020
GOLDEN WEST COLLEGE 8.5x11
2019
CSUF GRAND CENTRAL ART CENTER A Slow Conflict (solo)
ATCHE ART SPACE Parlor Presents
MOUNT SAINT MARY’S UNIVERSITY Aesthetic Intensity
THE PAINTERS ROOM Drawing Show
LAGUNA ART MUSEUM California Cool Art Auction 2019
2018
RAW SALT GALLERY Gratitude/Gracias
MARIE BALDWIN GALLERY TenWomen
SPOKE ART NYC Suggestivism
2017
LAGUNA ART MUSEUM California Cool Art Auction 2017
ARTISTS REPUBLIC Grand Opening + Murals + Mini Galleries
2016
RAW SALT GALLERY New Location Grand Opening
LA SIERRA UNIVERSITY BRANDSTATER GALLERY Women of the New Contemporary
SPOKE ART SF Suggestivism: Resonance
2015
MOORPARK COLLEGE GALLERY Terrain (solo)
CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY Other Places (solo)
JAMIE BROOKS FINE ART Currents
RAW SALT GALLERY Inaugural Exhibition
FLOWER PEPPER GALLERY An Open Diary
BIOLA UNIVERSITY Mutual Aid
2014
BUSTAMANTE GILL GALLERY - C.FEIGN JUNIOR PROJECT Tender Remains (two-person exhibition)
PHONE BOOTH GALLERY 6x6
FLOWER PEPPER GALLERY Signs of Spring
IRVINE FINE ARTS CENTER Paper Farm
COPRO GALLERY Convergence
F+ GALLERY Stone’s Throw
NAMASTE - C.FEIGN JUNIOR PROJECT Arcadia
2013
F+ GALLERY Newton's Third
DENNIS W DUTZI GALLERY Longing Limned - MFA Project Exhibition (solo)
MONDO POP - ROME Suggestivism Rome
GALLERIA PROVENCIALE SANTA CHIARA - COSENZA, ITALY Suggestivism - The New Horizon
COASTLINE COMMUNITY COLLEGE GALLERY Making/Working
GALLERY NUCLEUS Society of Illustrators LA: Illustration West 51 (juried)
2012
AR4T Where The Sidewalk Ends
ART DU VIN Lost and Found (solo)
BOLD HYPE GALLERY - NYC Suggestivism NYC
225 FOREST Creatures from The Deep
CSULB UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUM Insights 2012 (juried)
FLOWER PEPPER GALLERY The Tale of Two Legs Standing
GALLERY NUCLEUS Society of Illustrators LA: Illustration West 50 (juried)
MAX L GATOV GALLERY MFA Advancement Show
2011
CSULB UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUM Insights 2011 (juried)
HIBBLETON GALLERY Counterparts
THE BOX GALLERYTupelo Honey (two-person exhibition)
GALLERY NUCLEUS Society of Illustrators LA: Illustration West 49 (juried)
2010
PACIFIC ELECTRIC LOFTS BLUECANVAS Issue 6 Launch Event
GRAND CENTRAL ART CENTER - RENTAL AND SALES GALLERY Roost
GALLERY NUCLEUS ICON6 - Labor of Line
PHONE BOOTH GALLERY Off the Hook III
GRAND CENTRAL ART CENTER - RENTAL AND SALES GALLERYKindred Spirits
PHONE BOOTH GALLERY Girs! Girls! Girls!
2009
CSULB UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUM Insights 2009 (juried)
DENNIS W DUTZI GALLERYThe Earth Day Show
MAX L GATOV GALLERY - Illustration BFA Show
MARILYN WERBY GALLERY - INK 3 (juried)
GALLERY NUCLEUS Society of Illustrators, Los Angeles - Illustration West 47 (juried)
Artist Residencies
Brea Gallery, 2019
Cow House Studios, 2020
Public Murals
Anaheim Garden Walk, 2017
La Sierra University, 2016
Honors/Awards
Curator of the Year, OC Weekly, 2017
Emerging Artist Award, Arts Orange County, 2016
Outstanding Creative Achievement Award, 2013
President F King Alexander Purchase Award, 2009, 2012
Elizabeth Vyse Memorial Art Scholarship, 2012
Society of Illustrators, Los Angeles, Illustration West 47-50
Society of Illustrators, Los Angeles, Student Scholarship, 2007
Select Publications/Press
LA Art Documents, April 1, 2022
Artillery, March 2022
Brenda Magazine, Issue 5, December 2019
Bluedoor Magazine, October 2019
Art and Cake, March 2019
LA Times, February 2019
Irvine Weekly, February 2019
Orange Coast Magazine October 2016
KCET ArtBound, April 2015
Platinum Cheese Blog, May 2014
Riviera Magazine, February 2013
Spider Magazine, 2012
CD SAVOIA Short Film, October 2012
OC Art Blog, November 2012
Suggestivism NYC Exhibition Catalog
Hi-Fructose Blog, June 2011
Small Magazine, Spring 2011
BLUECANVAS Magazine, Issue 5
Orange County Register, May 22, 2010, Weighty and Wispy Pieces, by Richard Chang
OC Weekly, Calendar, April 1, 2010, Kindred Spirits
District, Vol.3.Issue 6, Long Beach, CA
CMYK Magazine, Issue 39, Illustration category