Bio

Liliya Zalevskaya was born in Kiev, Ukraine. As a young teenager, her parents immigrated to America, as the Soviet Union fell apart. This continues to inform her interest in how social structures are perceived versus how they are experienced by the individuals living within them. She currently lives and works in Charlotte, North Carolina, with her husband artist David Scott Sackett.

 

Artist’s Statement

“The absurdity of reality demands a form which dismantles the realistic facade”     -Adorno

 

A need to understand a gap between thought and reality is at the root of my artistic practice. In essence my work is the artifact of play, through which I interrogate my roles as a director, actor, and editor in the construction of a fantasy that questions reality. The fantastic emerges from the anxiety caused by the search to understand the differences between reality and perception. The work attempts to explore this gap, in which the normally mundane may begin to appear strange or unfamiliar. I denote this quality as Absurdity. Absurdity therefore becomes a vehicle for my exploration in video and works on paper.

 

Education

2010 University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG)

MFA in Digital Media/Performance, Greensboro, NC

 

2007 University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNCC)

BFA in Printmaking, Charlotte, NC

 

Exhibitions

2017

Van Every / Smith Gallery, Davidson College, Lenin Lives

Goodyear Arts, Charlotte, NC, Wet Paint

Czong Institute for Contemporary Art (CICA), South Korea, Digital Body, The 3rd International Exhibition on New Media Art

Goodyear Arts, Charlotte, NC, Chaos, Confusion, or Community

C3Lab, Charlotte NC, Futurism

 

2016

Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC, 80x80

The Artistry, Greenville, SC, Presence

Cornelius Arts Center, Cornelius, NC, Homegrown

Rauch Gallery, Visual Harvest, Dallas, NC

 

2015

Rauch Gallery, Gaston College, Dallas, NC, 50th Anniversary Art Exhibit

 

2013

Rauch Gallery, Gaston College, Dallas, NC, Parts and Labor

UNCC Short Film Festival, Best Experimental Short

University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, Multiplicity: 2013 Biennial Alumni Exhibition

 

2012

Temple Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, Antipode Transportation System

Power Plant Productions, Philadelphia, PA, BANG

 

2010

Christina Ray, New York City, NY, ___Tension: New Works On The Rise

Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC, MFA Thesis Exhibition

Spare Room, Greensboro, NC, The Merger

 

2009

UNC Charlotte, NC, Short Film Festival

Gatewood Gallery, UNCG, Greensboro, NC, Candidates for the degree Masters of Fine

Arts show

Elliot Center Gallery, UNCG, Greensboro, NC, Second year MFA group show

 

2008

Elliot Center Gallery, UNCG, Greensboro, NC

Corradi Magazine, UNCG, Greensboro, NC, Juried Student Art, Poetry, and Literature magazine

 

2007

Rowe Gallery, UNCC, Charlotte, NC, Solo BFA Exhibition

 

Employment/

Internships

2015-present

Art Instructor, Gaston College, Dallas, NC

 

2014-2015

Art Instructor, Cleveland Community College, Shelby, NC

 

2012-2014

Adjunct Art Instructor, Gaston College, Dallas, NC

 

2009-2010

Graduate Assistantship in Digital Media and Photography, UNCG

 

2007-2008

Adjunct Faculty, UNCC

 

2005-2007

Printmaking Studio assistant, UNCC

 

2005

Printmaking Studio Tech Volunteer,

McColl Center for Visual Arts, Charlotte, NC

 

Professional Experience

2017

Carolina Art Crush, Happening CLT Blog Interview

Panel Discussion: Lenin Lives, moderated by Roman Utkin, Davidson College, Davidson, NC

Professional Development Speaker, Gaston College, Dallas, NC: Why have there been no great women artist?

 

2013

Guest Speaker, Senior Seminar Class, UNCC

 

2010

Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC, MFA Artist Talk

 

2009

UNC at Greensboro, Art History Presentation: Maya Deren, Mashes of the Afternoon

 

2006

Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw, Art making/ cultural exploration, Wroclaw, Poland

 

Residencies

2010

Vermont Studio Center

 

Grants/Fellowships

2010

Vermont Studio Center fellowship

 

2009-2010

Digital Media/Photography, Graduate Fellowship, UNCG

 

2007

Area award in printmaking, UNCC

 

Not sure where this should go but this was in Charlotte Observer :)