“With my practice I aim to investigate painting as a process for collective imagining and storytelling. At the core of my work I bring personal stories, memories, (re)imagined spaces, even folk song narratives, and I situate these in parallel to experiences by local community members close to me. In doing so I hope to build upon the capacity of painting as an irreplaceable social tool, a platform for interpersonal and collective empowerment as well as a space for emancipation”
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Paintings
Community Murals
The following are a selection of community murals created in the past several years. They are located mostly in New York City. The process of designing and completing is slightly different with each, however all involved the input of local community members and organizations.
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Works on Paper
Bio and contact
Yana Dimitrova is a Brooklyn-based artist, working primarily in painting. Formally trained in both Bulgaria and the U.S. Yana received her BFA and MFA in Painting and minor in Printmaking at the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) in 2009, and an MA in Theories of Urban Practice from Parsons School of Design (2018). She is currently working on a practice-lead PhD project at LUCA School of Arts in Ghent, Belgium, with focus on painting as a medium of community empowerment.
Yana calls home a small town at the border between three countries and four mountains in the middle of the Balkans. After immigrating to the US with her family at the start of her college years, her work and research continued to be rooted in her experience.
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For any inquiries, images or additional information, please e-mail :
yana@yanadimitrova.com
