Lot 132 - Yulia Iosilzon - Pond Vol III

Oil on paper
2025
A6 (10x15cm)
Original Artwork
Signed on Verso
Curated by Marta Marsicka

About
Yulia Iosilzon’s figurative paintings on stretched transparent fabric are portals into vivid dreamlike worlds with roots in both ancient mythologies and contemporary social concerns. Her works hint at unfolding narratives of human-animal metamorphosis. Her visual references are wide ranging; she draws on imagery from childhood cartoons and representations of paradise, as well as exploring the Jewish iconography of her heritage. This symbolic language also extends into her ceramic practice.

Education
2017- 2019
MA Fine Art, Royal College of Art, London, UK

2013 – 2017
BA Fine Art, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, London, UK

Solo Exhibitions
2024
Cool Summer, De Brock, Knokke, Belgium
Modus Operandi, Bertnson Bhattacharjee, London, UK

2023
Heaven’s Chambers, Carvalho Park, New York, USA

2022
Frogspawn, Sapling, London, UK
Yulia Iosilzon - Art Narratives, Roksanda, London, UK
Amanita Muscaria, De Brock Gallery, Knokke, Belgium
Nocturnal, Foundry, Seoul, South Korea

2021
Yulia Iosilzon, Art Antwerp 2021 Solo Booth presentation, De Brock Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
A Chorus of Beauty and Menace, Carvalho Park, New York, USA
The Big Fish!, Berntson Bhattacharjee x Sotheby’s Nordics, Stockholm, Sweden
Fanfarria, Huxley-Parlour, London, UK

2020
Invisible Power, Osnova, Moscow, Russia
Artist Room Solo Presentation, Columbia x Roman Road, London, UK

2019
Paradeisos, Carvalho Park, New York, USA

Group Exhibitions
2025
The Threshold Beckons, Carvalho Park, New York, USA
Auguries of Innocence, Cedric Bardawil, London, UK

2024
Kristian Touborg, Se Yoon Park, Yulia Iosilzon, Carvalho Park at Frieze No. 9 Cork Street, London, UK
The Dimension of Feeling, Vortic x House of Koko, London, UK

2023
Hold Me Now, IONE & MANN, London, UK
Luminous Terrain, Atipografia, Arzignano, Italy
Processing the past and digesting the future, Badr El Jundi, Madrid, Spain
L’heure du conte, Pangée, Montreal, Canada

2022
Jingle Bells VI, De Brock, Knokke, Belgium
Once Upon a Time in Mayfair, Dynamisk x Phillips, London, UK
The Earth has music for those who listen, Sapling, London, UK
Two Sisters, Roman Road & Working Project, London, UK
The Sky above the Roof, Tabula Rasa Gallery, Beijing, China

2021
All That And A Bag Of Chips, Des Bains, London, UK
Unsellable, Just a Studio, London, UK
Paradise Is Not Just a Place, Roman Road, London, UK
The Ode to the Body, Daniel Benjamin Gallery, London, UK
Selfhood, Berntson Bhattacharjee Gallery, London, UK

2020
Fight or Flight, Roman Road, London, UK
Birthday, White Crypt, London, UK
Begin Again, Guts Gallery, London, UK
London Now, Space K, Seoul, South Korea
Crowd, Hannah Barry Gallery, London, UK
RedivideR, Platform Projects, Platform Southwark, London, UK

2019
Bloomberg New Contemporaries, South London Gallery, London, UK
Detritus, Wells Projects, London, UK
Lacuna, Sottosale Projects, London, UK
Velvet Ropes, House of Vans, London, UK
Bloomberg New Contemporaries, Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds, UK
Library, Triumph Gallery, Moscow, Russia
RCA Graduation Show, RCA, London, UK
Varieties of Disturbance, Shelf Spanish City, Newcastle, UK
Wolves by the Road, Assembly House, Leeds, UK
Rub The Bronze Dog’s Nose, Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
Splodge, Hockney Gallery, London, UK
We Can Only Have Fun on Certain Days, Warbling Collective, London, UK
Nourishment, Guests Space, London, UK
AWB, Herrick Gallery, London, UK

2018
Something Else, Triumph Gallery, Moscow, Russia
UJS Exhibition, London, UK
More Life, Hockney Gallery, London, UK
The Origin of Who, Kvadrat 16 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
Thumbnails, Hockney Gallery, London, UK
We Are the Ones Vol I, Group Exhibition, Copenhagen, Denmark
Visions, Triumph Gallery, Moscow, Russia

2017
Slade Degree Show, Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK

Awards
2019
Bloomberg New Contemporaries

2016
Audrey Wykeham Prize

Gallery Representation
Carvalho Park (New York, USA)

Public Collections
Roberts Institute of Art (London, UK)
HSBC Art Collection (London, UK)
Xiao Foundation Museum (Rizhao, China)
Nanjo Museum (Nanjo, Japan)
X Museum (Beijing, China)
Sixi Museum (Nanjing, China)

Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork
This is a body of work about scenic environments in which the anthropomorphic creatures find themselves in their natural habitat - a pond. These environments are inhabited by dynamic, changing entities with hybrid anatomies that mix delicately featured human faces with bulbous animal bodies. These creatures move through a colorfully flecked, luminous matter that supports and harmonizes their existence, like an extracorporeal amniotic fluid.