Yana Verba
b. 1983 in Dnipro, Ukraine
Lives and works in SF East Bay
Education:
2015 BFA, OCAD University, Toronto, Canada
2006-2008 SVA, New York, USA.
Solo exhibitions:
2024 Ukrainian Song, Walnut Creek Library, Community Art Gallery, CA
2023 Movement//Kyiv, Town Hall Theatre Gallery, Lafayette,CA
2022 Ukrainian Song, the Library Public Art Gallery, Lafayette, CA
2021 Dancing with Ghosts, ACE Dance Academy, Walnut Creek, CA
2019 Dance Dance otherwise we are lost, Papillon Cafe, Lafayette, CA
2018 Loops and Threads, Papillon Cafe, Lafayette, CA
2007 Silent Loops, 47 Howard St, New York, USA
Group Exhibitions:
2025
Irrepressible Women, SFWA Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2024
Spell it Out, Museum Of Northern California Art, Chico, CA
Women Rising, Drawing Room, San Francisco, CA
2023
Excursions, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
Warm Up Ukraine, Temple, San Francisco
2022
In My Back Yard, GearBox Gallery, Oakland, CA
Protest Art, UIMA Chicago, The Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago
Paulina Olowska, Naughty Nymphs in the Courtyard of the Favorites, The Art Institute of Chicago
2021
Black & White, Site:Brooklyn Gallery, NYC
Hierarchy, GearBox Gallery, Oakland, CA
Dance Weekend, Studio 3 Arts, Barking, United Kingdom
Unwrapped, Part II: The Hidden World of Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Sotheby's, Paris, France
2020
The Earth Action Virtual Art Exhibition, UC Berkeley, California
2019
Art Festival, The Art Room, Lafayette, CA
2018
Art Festival, The Art Room, Lafayette, California
The Big Draw, Fundraiser, OCAD University, Toronto
2017
Art - Music Festival, The Art Room, Lafayette, California
Unauthorized Show, SFMOMA, San Francisco
XPACE Fundraiser, Xpace Cultural Center, Toronto
2016
Space. Working Space. Narrative, Oakland, California
States of Being, Window Space, Xpace Cultural Center, Toronto, Canada.
The Big Draw - Annual Silent Action. OCAD U. Toronto
Trending: Contemporary Art Now. Target Gallery.Torpedo Center in Alexandria, Virginia
Experiencing Perspectives. Mercedes-Benz Financial Services. Mississauga, Ontario
2015
Under 100$Holiday Exhibition. Bridge Maker ARTS. Richmond, California
Experiencing Perspectives. Mercedes-Benz Financial Services. Mississauga, Ontario
Eat the Menu: Symington House Group Show. Toronto, Canada.
GradEx 100th Annual, OCAD University, Toronto.
The Big Draw: Drawing & Painting Fundraising Silent Auction
2014
Two-Week Marriage, Transit Space. Toronto, Canada
Speculations on Figurative Painting, TheAnniversary Gallery. Toronto, Canada
The Big Draw, OCAD University. Toronto, Canada
2013
DisruptUndoSalon, OCAD University. Toronto, Canada
2012
6x8 Exhibition, The paper place. Toronto, Canada
Art for Atta'a, the Bait al Zubair Museum. Muscat, Oman
2010
Art for Atta'a, the Bait al Zubair Museum. Muscat, Oman
ARTICLES AND REVIEWS:
2024 Vilni Media
2023 Lamorinda Weekly, Let's talk Durham
2016 Victoria Mohr-Blakeney, States of Being, exhibition essay, XPACE Cultural Centre
2012 Times of Oman
COLLECTORS: Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Paulina Olowska