Yana Dimitrova
Curriculum Vitae
Education:
2018 –2023 PhD in Visual Arts (expected completion 2023)
Research: “Towards a Shared Autonomy. Painting as an Emancipatory Practice” LUCA School of Arts/ KU Leuven, Ghent and Brussels, Belgium
2018 MA Theories of Urban Practice, Parsons School of Design, School of Design Strategies, New York, NY
2009 MFA – Painting, Printmaking Thesis and Exhibition: “Inertia: the Limits of Non-spaces” Savannah College of Art & Design (SCAD) Atlanta, GA
2006 BFA – Painting, Printmaking Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) Savannah, GA
Relevant Academic Experience:
2022-23 – present Serving on a School Wide Curriculum Design and development committee, School of Design Strategies, Parsons School of Design, New York
2021- Course design leader- certificate program: Equity, Inclusion, and Social Justice in Design- Schools of Public Engagement and Parsons School of Design - The New School, New York
Developing and co-designing the course “Building Inclusive Design Cultures”
2017 – 2022 Foundations Program Coordinator and Adjunct Professor- Department of Art and Design, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ
2018 –2023 PhD in Visual Arts (expected completion 2023)
Research: “Towards a Shared Autonomy. Painting as an Emancipatory Practice” LUCA School of Arts/ KU Leuven, Ghent and Brussels, Belgium
2018 MA Theories of Urban Practice, Parsons School of Design, School of Design Strategies, New York, NY
2009 MFA – Painting, Printmaking Thesis and Exhibition: “Inertia: the Limits of Non-spaces” Savannah College of Art & Design (SCAD) Atlanta, GA
2006 BFA – Painting, Printmaking Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) Savannah, GA
Relevant Academic Experience:
2022-23 – present Serving on a School Wide Curriculum Design and development committee, School of Design Strategies, Parsons School of Design, New York
2021- Course design leader- certificate program: Equity, Inclusion, and Social Justice in Design- Schools of Public Engagement and Parsons School of Design - The New School, New York
Developing and co-designing the course “Building Inclusive Design Cultures”
2017 – 2022 Foundations Program Coordinator and Adjunct Professor- Department of Art and Design, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ
2013 – present Part-Time Assistant Professor at the following affiliated New School Schools and Programs:
School of Design Strategies (SDS), Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
Part-Time Assistant Professor The New School for Public Engagement teaching:
Part-Time Assistant Professor at Eugene Lang the New School for Liberal Arts- teaching Public
2016 – present Affiliated Research Faculty Tishman Environment and Design Canter (TEDC), The New School Supervising Scholar LaChaun Moore thesis, urban farming investigation titled 40 Acres and a
Mule
2014 Lecturer and guest critic. Advising MFA students in Fine Arts, L’ecole Beaux-art du Nantes, France in collaboration with the Santa Fe Art Institute, New Mexico
2006 – 2009 Lecturer at Savannah College of Art and Design, Atlanta, GA
Teaching Painting, Intermediate painting, Introduction to oil painting.
Scholarship and Creative Work:
Peer Reviewed Conference Presentations:
2022 Workshop leader and originator: “Community Organising in the Studio Classroom”
At LUCA School of Arts with European Artistic Research Network at ELIA Academy Conference
2015 Presentation and workshop: Alternative School of Art, part of Media Lounge, New York, NY
College art Association (CAA) New York, NY
2014 Presentation and workshop: Another Artworld is Possible - Alternative Economies Research Group, part of OWS network- Nurture Art, Brooklyn, NY
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
2019 Between Four Mountains. Miyako Yoshinaga Gallery, New York, NY
2014 I share you share. W.o.l.k.e. collective Brussels, Belgium
2013 People of the Future, CEC, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
How did modernism kill itself?, Open Atelier ZO, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2011 Tomorrow and Tomorrow. Miyako Yoshinaga Art Prospects Gallery, New York, NY
HALFAWAKE, Kibbee Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2010 …And the Pursuit of Happiness, Consulate in General, Republic of Bulgaria, New York, NY
2009 Please, Remain Seated. Miyako Yoshinaga Art Prospects Gallery, New York, NY
We Collected Stories, Kibbee Gallery, Atlanta GA
2008 [inertia], Art House Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Silent Documents, Studio reception, Elizabeth’s Foundation for The Arts, New York, NY
2006 Bystanders, Trois Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022 Occupy# 3 Networks, curated by Eirini Linardaki and Shani Ha at the French Consulate of New
York link to project
2019 Mini-Mono-Mental, curated by Annesofie Sandal, Chashama, New York, NY
2017 Sofia Queer Forum – dialogues of Intersectionality and Gender. 100 year of the October
Revolution, Sofia, Bulgaria, curated by Boryana Rosa
Incoherence Salon, curated by Pablo Helguera and Danielle Tageder, performance with Amelie Guilier At Columbia Galleries
Autotranslation Yana Dimitrova and Annesofie Sandal - a two person show at Chashama Gallery,
New York, NY
Far Away From Where? Exhibition and symposium, Aronson Gallery, Parsons School of Design,New York, NY information: www.woundedplaces.com
2016-17 Melissa Calderon, Yana Dimitrova and Jen Mazza, curated by Cynthia Bronson Altman, The
Rockefeller Brothers’ Fund, New York, NY
2016 Threaded Archetypes, NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, NY
2015 What do you see? Sofia City Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
IL- LEGAL Souvenirs, curated by Annesofie Sandal at Field Projects, New York, NY
2012 Common Frequencies, Radiator Gallery, Long Island City, NY
An Inquest of Miraculous Today, Credo Bonum Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
Deconstructing the Habit, Spattered Columns, New York, NY
2022 Occupy# 3 Networks, curated by Eirini Linardaki and Shani Ha at the French Consulate of New
York link to project
2019 Mini-Mono-Mental, curated by Annesofie Sandal, Chashama, New York, NY
2017 Sofia Queer Forum – dialogues of Intersectionality and Gender. 100 year of the October
Revolution, Sofia, Bulgaria, curated by Boryana Rosa
Incoherence Salon, curated by Pablo Helguera and Danielle Tageder, performance with Amelie Guilier At Columbia Galleries
Autotranslation Yana Dimitrova and Annesofie Sandal - a two person show at Chashama Gallery,
New York, NY
Far Away From Where? Exhibition and symposium, Aronson Gallery, Parsons School of Design,New York, NY information: www.woundedplaces.com
2016-17 Melissa Calderon, Yana Dimitrova and Jen Mazza, curated by Cynthia Bronson Altman, The
Rockefeller Brothers’ Fund, New York, NY
2016 Threaded Archetypes, NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, NY
2015 What do you see? Sofia City Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
IL- LEGAL Souvenirs, curated by Annesofie Sandal at Field Projects, New York, NY
2012 Common Frequencies, Radiator Gallery, Long Island City, NY
An Inquest of Miraculous Today, Credo Bonum Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
Deconstructing the Habit, Spattered Columns, New York, NY
2011 Home: Discovering Absence. Yana Dimitrova and Sasha Rudensky, Brooklyn House of Kulture,
Brooklyn Public Library, Coney Island, NY, curated by Yulia Tikhonova
Yana Dimitrova & Angela Washko - Cheap Paradise of Familiar Tasks and Places, FLUX Factory,
Long Island City, NY
LUMEN festival, outdoor light project, Staten Island, NY
The American Dream, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
Border Situation 2, Bulgarian Cultural Institute, Prague, Czech Republic
2010 Nord Art 2010, Kunst in Der Carlshutte, Büdelsdorf, Germany
Border Situation - Contemporary Drawing, Institute for Culture, Ministry for Foreign Affairs of
Republic of Bulgaria, Sofia, Bulgaria
13th International Group Show, Women Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
2009 The Way We Are, North by North Western, Wigan, United Kingdom
2008 @Large, The Factory, Atlanta, GA
2007 Room x Room - Exploring Domesticity, Atlanta, GA
I/We Case Studies, The Defoor Center, Atlanta, GA
Together At Last, The Red Gallery, Savannah, GA
Fresh Blood, Mason Murer Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Alexander Ink, Alexander Hall, Savannah, GA
Bloodlines, Gallery RFD, Swainsboro, GA
2006 TransATLantic 2006: Atlanta to Berlin, Gallery Twenty-Four, Berlin, Germany
Awards, Grants, Residencies:
2022 Excellence Prize for Doctorates in the Arts, The Roger Dillemans Fund, KU Leuven, Belgium
2017 “Distinguished Faculty Award”, Integrated Design Program (IDP) School of Design Strategies,
Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
2014 Research Exchange, KU Leuven, Brussels Belgium, Practice-lead research project –“Commons at
Play: Creative Commons and the Artistic Action.” Culminating in solo exhibition at WALKE Brussels, Belgium
2013 Residency Unlimited (RU), Artist in Residence, New York, NY
Open Atelier Zuidoost Artist In Residence(OAZO AIR), Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2010 ChaShaMa - Visual Arts, Studio Program, Brooklyn, NY
Artist Fellowship, Contemporary Artists Centre- Woodside, Troy, NY
Variable Dimensions Project, International Painting Camp Tescani, National Museum- George Enescu, Bucharest, Romania
2009 Artist Fellowship, Vermont Studio Centre, Johnson, VT
Additional Relevant Professional Experience:
2021- 2022 Maimonides Hospital – Brooklyn, NY Community mural project in collaboration with 4500 participants
2020 NYC Hospitals Art and Health- community mural project with local hospital @ Sea View Hospital in Staten Island, New York– link to project
2009 – 2019 Lead Artist and muralist- Groundswell Community Mural Project. Leading, designing and completing the production of over 20 large-scale community mural commissions with partners such as NYC Department of Transportation, the Red Hook Community Justice Canter and Youth Court, the NYC Housing Authority (NYCHA), The NYC Department of Environmental Protection as well as numerous community and grass roots activist organisations.