Recent selected exhibitions, performances, public art, awards, residencies, screenings, and other recent activity.

2026

Invisible Souls — University of Bridgeport

September 19–October 25, 2026
Solo exhibition at the Schelfhaudt Gallery, University of Bridgeport, Connecticut.

Dress Rehearsal — grayDUCK Gallery

August 29–September 26, 2026
Solo exhibition in Austin bringing together painting, sculpture, animation, writing, mechanical elements, and performance. And I Will Always Love You was performed within the exhibition on September 13.

Broken Lullabies — Ro2 Art

May 16–June 2026
Solo exhibition at Ro2 Art, Dallas, Texas.

Glasstire — Five-Minute Tours: Broken Lullabies

Glasstire features Broken Lullabies at Ro2 Art, Dallas, in its Five-Minute Tours series.
Link: Glasstire feature
Visual: Still/thumbnail from the Glasstire video.

2025

Blossom Gazes — Permanent Public Art

November 2025
Installation of Blossom Gazes, three monumental flower sculptures created as a permanent public artwork in Austin.

Ofrenda — WaterWork

September 26–27, 2025
Ofrenda, an animated work with original music by Joe Williams, was presented as a large-scale outdoor projection as part of WaterWork in Austin.

Never and Both at the Same Time — New York

September 5–6, 2025
Presented across six projectors at XPosed Project Space, with the installation visible from the High Line in New York City.

Un/Broken — Ivester Contemporary

March 1–April 5, 2025
Solo exhibition at Ivester Contemporary, Austin, bringing together paintings, animation, and mechanical sculpture. A live performance of My Dear Skeleton was presented during the exhibition.

My Dear Skeleton — OUTsider Festival

February 22, 2025
Live performance of My Dear Skeleton at OUTsider Festival at The VORTEX, Austin.

2024

Gefilte Fish Wins Best International Short Film

Gefilte Fish received Best International Short Film at the Tamuz Shomron Film Festival.

Bodily Transfigurations and Transgenerational Trauma — Feminist Studies
Rebecca Rossen examines My Dear Skeleton and Gefilte Fish in a 26-page scholarly article published in Feminist Studies.

Venezia Contemporanea Residency

May 25–June 16, 2024
Artist residency in Venice, Italy.

MoonFall

May 2024
Projection design and art for MoonFall, with concept and choreography by Dorothy O’Shea Overbey and story and music by Samuel Lipman.

Observations — Toronto

April 28–May 18, 2024
Three-person exhibition with Carla Gannis and Karen Marston at Station Independent Projects, Toronto.

2023

Mother/Land — Artpace

March 16–May 7, 2023
Created during the Artpace International Artist-in-Residence program in San Antonio, Mother/Land brought together animation, sculpture, drawing, writing, sound, and mechanical elements in response to the war in Ukraine.

Austin Chronicle — Mother/Land

“The War on the Walls in Yuliya Lanina’s Mother/Land.” Feature and review of the exhibition and its response to the war in Ukraine.

Mother/Land — Austin Central Library

August–November 2023
A new presentation of Mother/Land at Austin Central Library.

Franconia Sculpture Park

July 2023
Artist Family-in-Residence, Franconia Sculpture Park, Minnesota.

Animating Silence: Trauma, War, and Hope

April 27, 2023
Artist talk at Pomona College, California.

2022

GUTS — St. Edward's University

May 21–June 11, 2022
Solo exhibition featuring recent works on paper and Gefilte Fish at the St. Edward's University Fine Arts Gallery, Austin.

Yaddo

June 2022
Artist residency at Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, New York.

Gefilte Fish

2022
Completion of the animated short Gefilte Fish, exploring family memory, intergenerational trauma, and the Holocaust.

The Forward — Gefilte Fish
“In ‘Gefilte Fish,’ a Metaphor for Once and Future Trauma.”

2021

Fulbright / MuseumsQuartier Vienna

Summer 2021
Fulbright US/Austria artist residency at MuseumsQuartier in Vienna, where Gefilte Fish was developed and presented.

Kronos Festival

June 2021
Music automatons created with composer Yevgeniy Sharlat presented as part of the Kronos Quartet's online summer festival.

One Sunday Afternoon — CONtEMPLO

April–May 2021
Launch of the VR project One Sunday Afternoon at CONtEMPLO in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.

After Carolee: Tender and Fierce — Artpace

2021
Participation in the exhibition curated by Annette DiMeo Carlozzi at Artpace, San Antonio.

2020

Fulbright Fellowship

Awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to develop new work in Vienna, Austria.

Yaddo Fellowship

Awarded a fellowship for a residency at Yaddo.

Never and Both at the Same Time — Fusebox Festival

Presented as part of Fusebox Festival's reimagined virtual edition.

Visualizing the Visceral

A conversation with composer and vocalist Bora Yoon, originally developed for SXSW and subsequently presented through the American Composers Forum's Resonance Series.

Earlier News

Selected exhibitions, performances, screenings, talks, and projects from earlier years are available in the News Archive.