Biography

Yana Bondar is an artist from Augusta, GA. They graduated with their MFA in Ceramics at The Lamar Dodd School of Art: University of Georgia and BFA from Augusta University. They participated in the 2022 Penland School of Craft Winter Residency and was selected to exhibit in ArtFields 2021 in Lake City, SC.

Currently they teach 2D and 3D foundations at Augusta University Department of Art and Design.

Yana’s work draws from experiences as a neurodivergent, nonbinary, queer person with the residue of a catholic background. Yana draws from their catholic upbringing and how the faith’s construct of gender and performative archetypes affected their own relationship with gender identity and selfhood, and reappropriates themes of god and sainthood through self referential, constructed archetypes.