ABOUT
BIO
Deborah Yasinsky is a Bronx-based artist, curator, and educator. Her work explores memory, childhood, and ritual. She investigates experience and imagination to create surreal, escapist environments in multiple media that approach past trauma through symbolic intermediaries illuminating despair and hope. Working in ceramics, painting, printmaking, and film she investigates imagery of birds, unicorns, forests, flattened perspective figures, and jeweled objects juxtaposed with abstractions of memory. She has exhibited her work nationally, including exhibitions at Coral Gables Museum, Galerie Lucida, Empty Set Gallery, Local Project Art Space, and Dominican University. Deborah has worked with Hudson River Museum, 92Y, Stepping Stones Museum for Children, and ArtsWestchester. She is a recipient of the City Artist Corps Grant and was an Artist in Residence on Governors Island with Bronx Art Space. Recent curatorial projects include Ancestral Foods: Family Feasts at Bronx Art Space. Yasinsky holds an MFA in Painting from Lehman College, CUNY, an M.S.Ed in Museum Education from Bank Street College of Education, a BA in Fine Arts/Illustration from Stern College, YU and an AAS in Textile Surface Design from Fashion Institute of Technology. Deborah is currently Assistant Director, Curator of Education at Lehman College Art Gallery, and an Adjunct Lecturer at Lehman College, CUNY.
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Deborah Yasinsky
deborahyasinsky@gmail.com
www.deborahyasinsky.com
Bronx, NYC
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
Memories of Ritual, Adas Israel, Sag Harbor, NY
2021
Tapestries of Memory, Empty Set Gallery, Bronx, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025
Art Fair 14C, Galerie Lucida, Jersey City, NJ
Spring Fever, Galerie Lucida, Red Bank, NJ
2024
Botanica, Galerie Lucida, Red Bank, NJ
2023
Momento, Galerie Lucida, Red Bank, NJ
BAS Summer House, Governor’s Island, NYC
NYC X Design, The Festival, Sculpture Space, LIC, NY
Homecoming: Lehman College Graduate Art Programs Alumni, Bronx, NY
Skelly and Friends, Brooklyn, NY
2022
Summered in the Catskills, Birdhouse Brooklyn, NY
P&D and Mini Me, Birdhouse Gallery, Hancock, NY
2021
Apparitions, Paradice Palase, Brooklyn, NY
Tapestries of Memory, Empty Set Gallery, Bronx, NY
Text To Frame, Motherling Gallery, San Antonio, Texas
Transcendence, Local Project Art Space, LIC, NYC
Rototscope Project, Hot Cabinet, NYC
2020
Alien Nations 2020, Coral Gables Museum, Coral Gables, Fl
Primordial Soup, Paradice Palase, Brooklyn, NY
Made In Practice, Paradice Palase, Brooklyn, NY
Rototscope Project, Hot Cabinet, NYC
Woodcut Prints, Big Ink Prints, Newmarket, NH
Thesis Exhibition, Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY
2019
Cosmic Freedom, Hot Cabinet Film Screening, Bronx Music Heritage Center, Bronx, NY
Paintings and Ceramics, Office of the President, Lehman College, CUNY, Bronx, NY
Assemblage Portraiture, YU Museum Education Department, NYC
Object Trouve, Riverfront Art Gallery, Yonkers, NY
2018
Online Exhibition, Trestle Gallery
Interfaith Biennial, Dominican University, River Forest, IL
The Freak Show, Local Project Art Space, LIC, NYC
Community, 14th Street Y Gallery, New York, NY
CUNY Film Festival, New York, NY
NYC MFA Exhibition, Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, Brooklyn, NY
2017
Salon Group Exhibition, Greenpoint Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
YAW, Yonkers, NY
2016
Yonkers Carpet Mill Artist Collective, Yonkers, NY
Purchase College, PC4, Yonkers, NY
Spring 2015 Exhibition, Urban Studios Unbound Gallery,Yonkers, NY,
Yoho Artists Studios, Yonkers, NY
2015
Artists Interpreting Meaning, Public Appliance, Yonkers, NY
Yoho Artists Studios, Yonkers, NY
GRANTS
2021
City Artists Corps Grants Program, NYFA, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA), with support from the Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment (MOME) as well as Queens Theater
RESIDENCIES
2023
Governors Island Artist in Residence, Governors Island, NYC
2020
CRISIS Artist Residency Project, Online Residency
2018
The Big Ink, Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk, CT
EDUCATION
MFA Painting, Lehman College, CUNY, 2020
MS Ed Museum Education, Bank Street College of Education, 2009
BA Fine Arts/Illustration, Stern College, YU, 1994
AAS Textile/Surface Design, Fashion Institute ofTechnology, 1993
LECTURES/PANELS
2022
Arts Education Panelist, New York State Council on the Arts
2021
Panelist, Percent for Art, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, Selection Panel PS 87X
2020
Guest Lecturer, Social Media, the Arts, and the Curator's View, LIM College, NYC,
Curatorial Tour, Beasts Like Me: Feminism and Fantasy, Bronx Art Space
Moderator, Artist Panel Discussion, Beasts Like Me: Feminism and Fantasy, Bronx Art Space
Artist Interview, Hot Studio, Hot Cabinet Presents
Panelist, The Road Less Taken: Five SCW Alumnae and their Unexpected Career Paths. SCW, YU
Curatorial Tour, Listen: Artists Respond to Politics, Bronx Art Space
2019
Moderator, Artist Panel Discussion, Listen: Artists Respond to Politics, Bronx Art Space
2018
Panelist, Art for New York City Public School, School Construction Authority
2015
Guest Lecturer, Printmaking and The Day of the Dead, ArtsWestchester professional development for Westchester Art Teachers
2014
Guest Lecturer, Cultural Resources in ELA and other subjects, Metropolitan New York Library Council NYC; Uncommon Approaches to The Common Core Conference, 2014
CURATORIAL
2023
Ancestral Foods: Family Feasts, Bronx Art Space, Curator
Fraiming The Female Gaze: Women Artists and the New Historicism Lehman College Art Gallery, Co-Curator
2022
Eco Urgency Artists Make the Case, Wave Hill Public Garden and Cultural Center and Lehman College Art Gallery Collaboration, Curatorial Committee
Geographies of The Self, Longwood Art Gallery at Hostos, BCA, Bronx, NY, Curator
2020
Beasts Like Me: Feminism and Fantasy, Bronx Art Space, Bronx Art Space, Curator
2019
Listen: Artists Respond to Politics, Bronx Arts Space, Curator
