Bio
Yulia Gasio is a Ukrainian born artist who lives and practices art in California. Her works have been featured in numerous exhibitions regionally and nationally, and are in private and public collections that include
Ukraine Institute of Modern Art in Chicago, Ukraine Cultural Center Los Angeles, Osten Collection Skopje, North Macedonia, and Creative Spark Centre, Dundalk, Ireland. She earned MA in Art History from California State University Fresno and MFA in Drawing and Painting from California State University Long Beach and also a recipient of multiple awards and scholarships. Yulia is an Assistant Professor teaching Drawing and Painting at California State University Long Beach.
EDUCATION:
2019 California State University Long Beach, MFA, Studio Art, Drawing and Painting
2015 California State University Fresno, MA, Art with emphasis in Art History
2004 Taras Shevchenko National Pedagogical University of Luhansk, Ukraine, BA, Philology
SOLO AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS:
2024 Sunlit Spectra, Norris Galleries, Palos Verdes Art Center, CA
2023 Yulia Gasio: Ukraine 2014 till the Present, Ukraine Institute of Modern Art, Chicago, IL
2020 Donbas till the Present, Ellipse Gallery, CSU Fresno, CA
2019 Graduate Thesis Exhibit, School of Art, CSULB, CA
2018 Yulia Gasio & Diana Williams, Peerless Building, Fresno, CA
2014 Yulia Gasio & Jamie Boley, M street Art Complex, Fresno, CA
SELECTED GROUP, JURIED, AND INVITATIONAL EXHIBITIONS:
Portrait 2024, CICA Museum, Gimpo-si, Gyeonggi-do, Korea
Painted Biennial 2023, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
IMBAS, An Tain Arts Centre, Dundalk, Ireland
OSTEN BIENNAL of DRAWING Skopje 2022, National Gallery of N. Macedonia Cifte Hammam Skopje, The Republic of North Macedonia
Angel Open 2022, Tag Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The Winter Show, Walker Gallery, PVAC, Palos Verdes, CA
Between the Self and its True Home, expressions of displacement and uprootedness, UCLA’s International New Wight Biennial,CA
The Summer Show 2022, PVAC, Palos Verdes, CA
Realism Today, Pickens County Museum of Art, SC
17th National Juried Exhibition, Axis Gallery, Sacramento, CA
War and Piece, Royal Society of American Art, Brooklyn, NY
Art Exhibit, Yulia Gasio, Lado Goudjabidze, Yuriy Victiuk, Marlene Greenberg, Juri Koll, Nik Le Skela, Ukraine Culture Center, LA, CA
Humanitarian Benefit, An.a.log Gallery, SF, CA
Points of View, LBCG Gallery, LB, CA
The Winter Show 2021, Walker Gallery, PVAC, Palos Verdes, CA
Insights, Carolyn Campagna Kleefeld Contemporary Art Museum, CA
Change, Gatov East gallery, CSULB
Presidents Show, Miller House, CSULB Fifth Annual Art GALA, Long Beach, CA
When Art Meets Jazz, Ann Scheid, Leslie Betty, Yulia Gasio, Fresno Art Museum
Fabrics of My Mother, curator William Raines, 2122 Corridor,Fresno, CA
ДМЗ. Ідентифікація, Луганда на Дон. Культ, Luhansk, Ukraine
Fresno State Student Art Showcase, CSU Fresno
April Art Hop, M Street Art Complex, Fresno, CA
Undergraduate Student Annual Competition, Phebe Conley Art Gallery, CSU Fresno
VISITING ARTIST LECTURES & RESIDENCIES:
Guest Speaker, 2023 UIMA Benefit Gala Committee, UIMA, Chicago, IL
Creative Spark Artist-in-Residence program, Lecture and Demo, Dundalk, Ireland
19th Biennial FATE Conference in Denver, Colorado; co-presenter in Sessions: Supporting Graduate Students as Emerging Educators Beyond the Synchronized Curriculum; Imposter Syndrome: Supporting New Instructors in Art Foundations.
Art 101, Artists in Their Own Words lecture series, CSULB, CA
Art 507, Art Appreciation, San Diego City College, San Diego, CA
AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS:
Stipend Creative Spark Art-in-Residence program, Ireland
2022-2023 & 2023-2024 COTA RSCA Awards, CSULB
Best of Show, Virginia Wyper memorial Award, The Winter Show, PVAC
Honorable Mention, Angels Open 2022, Tag Gallery, CA
Gloria Lee Memorial Award, The Summer Show, Palos Verdes Art Center
Nell O. Fogg Endowed Scholarship, CSULB
Domenic Cretara Scholarship, School of Art, CSULB
CSU Summer Arts Scholarship, Contemporary Painting & Drawing course, CSU Fresno
Andrew and Dorothea Perenchio Museum Studies Endowment, Art Internship – Medieval Bosnian Tombstones Stecci, CSU Fresno
Allards award, Allards Art Supplies, Fresno, CA
Dean’s Award, Fresno City College, Fresno, CA
Dean’s List of Honor Students, Recognition of academic achievement,FCC
Certificate of Excellence, About Ourselves Magazine, FCC
CURATORIAL WORK
Fragments, co-curated group exhibit, LBCG, Long Beach, CA
Abstraction Symposium panel discussion, Carolyn Campagna Kleefeld Contemporary Art Museum
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago, Illinois
Creative Spark Centre, Dundalk, Ireland
Osten Collection, Skopje, North Macedonia
Ukraine Cultural Center Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA