Biography

Short bio
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 and performed extensively both nationally and internationally, including SXSW Interactive (TX), Seoul Art Museum (Korea), SIGGRAPH Asia (Japan), 798 Beijing Biennial (China), Cleveland Institute of Art (OH), Patrick Heide Gallery (London, UK), Teatro Santa Ana (Mexico), Blanton Museum of Art (TX), Moscow Museum of Modern Art (Russia), Vienna MuseumsQuartier (Austria) and Xposed gallery on New York City’s High Line.

Lanina's professional honors include fellowships and scholarships from Fulbright (Vienna, Austria), Headlands Art Center (CA), Yaddo (NY), Artpace (SA), Yaddo Fellowship (NY), Marble House Project (NY), The Puffin Foundation (NJ), and Honorable citation from New York State Assembly (NYC). Lanina’s most recent animation Gefilte Fish won Best International Short Film at Tamuz Shomron Film Festival (Israel) and an Honorable Mention at the Female Eye Film Festival (Canada). Lanina's latest collaboration, the interactive ballet MoonFall, for which she created projection design was nominated for a B. Iden Payne Award for Outstanding Media Design.

Lanina is an Assistant Professor of Practice at the Department of Arts and Entertainment Technologies at The University of Texas at Austin.

Long bio
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 arrived in New York in 1990 as a political refugee from Soviet Union. There, she established herself as a pioneering artist on the cutting edge by combining digital technologies with handmade media.  

Lanina has exhibited extensively both nationally and internationally, including Cleveland Institute of Art (Cleveland, OH, 2013), MuseumsQuartier Wien (Vienna, Austria, 2021), Rabotaroom (Milan, Italy, 2023), Seoul Art Museum (Seoul, Korea, 2006), Patrick Heide Gallery (London, UK, 2011), SIGGRAPH Asia (Yokohama, Japan, 2009), Beijing  Biennial (Beijing, China, 2009), Sara Nightingale Gallery (Sag Harbor, NY, 2024), Elizabet Ney Museum (Austin, TX, 2023),  SXSW Interactive (Austin, TX, 2019), State Museum of Modern Art (Moscow, Russia, 2012). 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 (Austin, TX 2021), Teatro Santa Ana (San Miguel De Allende, Mexico, 2019), Blanton Museum of Art (Austin, TX, 2019), Creative Tech Week (NYC, 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 (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 (San Antonio, 2023), Fulbright (Vienna, Austria, 2020), The Puffin Foundation (NJ, 2019), Yaddo (2011, 2022), Marble House Project (Vermont, 2017), Headlands Art Center (CA, 2013), and CORE Cultural Funding Program (Austin, TX, 2014-2022).

Recent speaking engagements include panel discussion on intergenerational trauma in collaboration with the Sigmund Freud Museum (Vienna, Austria, 2022), United Nations Human Rights Office (2021), The University of Applied Arts (Vienna, Austria, 2021), GIFF (San Miguel De Allende, Mexico, 2022), SXSW Interactive (Austin, TX, 2019), Texas State University (San Marcos, TX 2024), and Pomona College (Claremont, CA, 2023).

Lanina’s work was featured on the cover of Austin Chronicle (2023) and reviewed in Feminist Studies (2024), 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.

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, 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's latest collaboration, the interactive ballet MoonFall, for which she created projection design was nominated for a B. Iden Payne Award for Outstanding Media Design (2024).

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.