Bio
Evgeniya Korotchenko (b. 1990) is a mixed media and ceramics artist with a background in psychology. After a decade in research psychology and social studies, she shifted to contemporary art practice. Born in the USSR and raised in Ukraine, she has lived and worked across cultures—four years in Mexico and since 2025 in San Francisco. Her work has been exhibited in solo and collective shows in Mexico and the United States, with pieces in private collections across both countries.
My work lives in the off-rhythm, in the dissonance between how things are expected to behave and how they actually do. Working with different materials, I am drawn to moments of material resistance: clay that shrinks when dry, paper that buckles when wet, fibers that refuse to align. The process mirrors a deeper inner state—moving between countries leaves me untethered, always slightly out of step, learning the same world in different keys. This displacement builds a heightened sensitivity to subtle differences in daily rituals, what counts as politeness, the color of morning light, and creates a need to recalibrate constantly. I approach materials as partners with their own behavior rather than tools and appreciate the moment of making, compressing emotional, political, and personal experience without turning it into a narrative. Through fracture, resistance, and disobedience, I look for what can still be sustained, how something broken can become the beginning of a new form.
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