Jenny Yurshansky

Jenny Yurshansky’s practice is deeply informed by being a refugee. Through a research-based approach, she explores the trauma of displacement, interrogating notions of belonging and otherness within the frames of landscape, historical documents, and social constructs. Formally, this manifests as absence, loss, or erasure. Her long-term projects form intertwined narratives and span the mediums of sculpture, photography, installation, and writing.

Yurshansky received her MFA in Visual Art from UC Irvine and was a postgrad in Critical Studies at the Malmö Art Academy. In 2021 she will participate in group exhibitions at Descanso Gardens and Bridge Projects. In 2022, she will have a solo show at American Jewish University. In 2020 she was the first artist-in-residence along with a solo exhibition at Harvard-Westlake in Los Angeles and conducted 40 virtual workshops with arts organizations including MOCA, Fulcrum Arts, and Pitzer College. In 2019 Yurshansky received the City of Los Angeles Artist Fellowship along with an exhibition at Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery. She had a solo exhibition at St. Mary’s College in Notre Dame, Indiana and was part of the exhibition “A NonHuman Horizon” at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions. In 2018 Pitzer College Art Galleries published her artist book and she was an Artist-in-Residence at Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts. In 2016 she was an Artist-in-Residence at Arts Initiative Tokyo and she was invited by Yiddishkayt to travel as a guest artist to Moldova where she began research on her family’s history there. Yurshansky has also participated in group shows at Bonniers Konsthall, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Laguna Beach Art Museum, MAK Center, and LAXART, the Torrance Art Museum, the Armory Center for the Arts, the 7th Istanbul Biennial, the Hammer Museum, Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art in Malmö, and the Toyota Museum. She is the recipient of numerous artist and curatorial grants. She is the co-founder of Persbo Studio, an artist residency, sculpture park, and creative space in Sweden.