YANA TOYBER

Yana Toyber is a visual artist and photographer with a focus on analog photography. Born in Ukraine, Toyber moved to New York City at the age of two. Her artistic career began at the age of eleven when she performed with the New York City Ballet as a dancer. The recipient of the Kodak Eastman House Award, Scholastic, and NFAA Awards, Yana Toyber earned a BFA in photography from New York’s School of Visual Arts. Her photography has appeared in The Fader, Vanity Fair, Nylon, W, Zoo Magazine, Modern painters, S Magazine, Juxtapoz, Autre, as well as various commercial campaigns. Her book of photography, This Time (2015) was exhibited at the MOMA PS1 Book Fair and the Geffen Contemporary MOCA LA Book Fair. Toyber’s primary interests include feminism, ballet, environmental preservation, biology, nature vs. nurture, and bodies of water. She shoots Polaroid, medium format, and 35mm film, digitally, and often underwater. Her visual style is dreamy as well as pragmatic, whenever possible she shares a deep connection with her subjects.

"A lot of Yana's work celebrates the grace and grit of beautiful women and their fearless ways”. She was a leader in the fourth-wave feminist art movement with her notorious project 4 sale where she orchestrated a collective of female photographers who used each other as muses to create their bodies of work. As well as a strong portfolio of sex workers she’s worked on since 1997.

Education:

BFA School of Visual arts

Book fairs:

MoMA PS1 New York art book fair September 2019

MoMA PS1 New York art book fair September 2015

GEFFEN CONTEMPORARY, MOCA LA art book fair Feb 2016

Exhibitions:

Rockaway Beach Surf Club curated and exhibited, NY 2021

Refuge arts projection exhibition,NY 2020

Satellite art show Pfizer building, NY 2019

PERIPHERIE Gallery 38, NY 2019

Goldmine Lucas Lucas gallery, NY 2019

Ophelia (I feel ya) Lucas Lucas gallery, NY 2018

Blood Money Lucas Lucas gallery, NY 2018

Femme Fatale other people's children space , LA California 2018

Sacred Salt Rockaway beach Surf club gallery, Rockaway Beach NY 2017

THIS TIME exhibition and book signing at RUSH ARTS GALLERY, New York NY 2015

Intimacy group exhibition at Rabbit Hole studios, Brooklyn NY 2015

Operation meltdown mixed media art exhibition with artists Cara Bloch, Jillian Laub, Robin Shwartz, Devardo vintage, Shandi Levy Jewelry curated by Cara Bloch at the Shellborne hotel Art Basel Miami 2012

Momentum group of ten artists exhibiting in the impossible instant film space in NYC Feb 2012

Curated by impossible projects

Venice film festival terrace project selected video art installation “the king's doll maker”

Displayed at the Venice film festival August 31 2011- September 10 2011

NFAA ALUMNI AUCTION Auctioned “the king’s doll maker” for the National foundation for advancement of the arts

Wave riders Solo exhibition featuring a project on female surfers in their environment also introducing Palms a work in progress documenting palm trees around the world. Buenos

Dias surf garage in Montauk, NY Sept. 2011

4 Sale a collaboration between Yana Toyber, Elle Muliarchyk, Aneta Bartos and Martynka Wawrzyniak 8 bond street, New York, NY curated by Anne Huntington Nov.2010

4 sale 25kadr gallery Moscow Russia, May 2011

4 sale Gallery EGO Poznan Poland, June 2011

working for the man documenting legal brothels in Nevada and the ladies who choose to work there. Wolf and pack gallery, Amsterdam Netherlands 2008

curated by Julian Lyn

Le Femme Max Fish gallery documenting legal brothels in Nevada and the ladies who choose to work there, New York, NY 2007 Curated by Max fish and Yana Toyber

Graduation SOHO PHOTO GALLERY New York, NY End of high school exhibition curated by Howard Wallach 1994 and 1995

International center of photography Scholastic award winners exhibition 1995

Kodak Eastman house Award winning exhibition 199

Commissioned work for following clients and publications

W magazine, Dossier magazine, Vanityfair, Esquire magazine, Nylon Magazine, Nylon Japan, Trace Magazine, Big Magazine, The fader, massapeal, Bon magazine, Bust magazine,A4 magazine, Metropop magazine, tommy girl, doll house, outlaws of the border, Arrojo Studio

Noteworthy Private collectors

MNS real estate

Robert Nucci

Colin Shah

Nouriel Roubini

Chip seelig of Dune productions New York, NY

William Bradshaw New York, NY

25Kadr gallery Moscow, Russia

Bibliography:

Autre magazine “paradise lost” feature on SALT project April 2015

Impossible projects magazine “THIS TIME” feature April 2015

I-D magazine “THIS TIME” feature Nov 20015

Refinery29 “intimacy” group show feature July 2015

Huffington post “intimacy” group show feature July 2015

The wild magazine “THIS TIME” feature and article on artist May 1 2014

Huffington post “rebirth” Jun 14 2013

Dossier Journal “submerged” Jan 7 2013

Huffington post “Jezebel’s of the night” Oct 2012

GUP magazine “momentum exhibition” Feb 2012

The last magazine “online wave rider feature” Sept 2011

GUP magazine “Women issue” spring 2011

W magazine “art issue” November 2010

Modern painters “the Erotic mirror” November 2010

New York Times “The girlie show” November 2010

Purple magazine “4 sale collaboration” November 2010Interview magazine “calendar of events” November 2010

Zoo magazine “up close and personal” September 2010

Picture magazine “behind the scenes” spring 2007