About the work

I find it hard to talk about it.

Date and country of birth

1978, RU

Career Highlights

Yelena was born in the Urals (USSR), and has lived in the UK for over twenty years. She is based in Nottingham at Primary. She graduated with an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art in 2011.

Recent solo exhibitions include: Made Ground, Cample Line, Scotland (2022); Landscapes of Power, Philipp von Rosen, Cologne (2021); The Scholar Stones Project, Holden Gallery, Manchester (2020); After Image, Nottingham Contemporary (2016).

Selected group shows:

Matter as Actor, Lisson Gallery, London, curated by Greg Hilty (2023), Colonial Endurance, Nieuwe Instituut , Rotterdam, curated by TOK (2023), Ural Industrial Biennial, (2021), Slow Painting, curated by Martin Herbert for Hayward touring (2020), New Visions, Curated by Marial Lind, Tensta Kunsthalle, Stockholm, Sweden (2016), Display Show, Eastside projects, Birmingham, Curated by Gavin Wade and Celine Condorelli (2015).

Yelena’s work was included in Vitamin P3 (New Perspectives in Painting) published by Phaidon (2016).

Yelena’s works are at Arts Council Collection (London), Government Art Collection (London), RCA Collection (London), Saatchi Collection (London), Zabludowicz Collection (London) and various private collections.