Yelena Yemchuk

Yelena Yemchuk (born 1970 in Kyiv, Ukraine) is a New York-based artist and photographer. She immigrated to the United States with her parents when she was eleven. She became interested in photography when her father gave her a 35mm Minolta camera for her fourteenth birthday. She went on to study art at Parsons in New York and photography at Art Center in Pasadena.
Yelena Yemchuk's output as a visual artist is immediately recognizable, regardless of medium. She always invigorates her works with a particular notion of the in-between fiction and reality; between the grand beauty of 1960s cinema and the social and built environments of post-soviet realms; between her Eastern European heritage and her daily life in New York. Through Yemchuk's gaze, places and spaces organically and dramatically blur, creating dreamscapes in which her subjects experience some form of metamorphosis.
Yemchuk has exhibited paintings, films and photography at galleries and museums worldwide. She has shot for the New Yorker, New York Times, Another, ID, Vogue, and others.