Yana Dimitrova
Strategic Design and Management (BBA)
Office Location
L - 2 West 13th Street
Profile
Yana Dimitrova is an artist and a researcher whose work investigates the intersection between visual arts, community centerered practices, and activism as linked to the urban realm. Her research spans between issues of forced migration and displacement to the use of craft in alternative pedagogy methodologies.
Formally trained in both Bulgaria and the U.S., Dimitrova received her MFA in Painting and Printmaking at the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) in 2009.
Dimitrova has exhibited at various national and international venues. Her most recent exhibits have taken place at The Rockefeler Brothers Fund (New York), Aronson Gallery in Parsons (New York), Wolke (Brussels, Belgium), OAZO (Amsterdam,The Netherlands), Gallery Twenty-Four (Berlin,Germany), NXNW (Manchester, UK), Sofia City Museum and Credo Bonum (Sofia, Bulgaria), Field Projects, Flux Factory, NARS Foundation, Miyako Yoshinaga Gallery (New York) to name a few.
She teaches at Parsons School of Design, Eugene Lang, the Schools for Public Engagement and Parsons Paris.
Degrees Held
PhD Candidate - LUCA School of Arts, Ghent/Brussels Belgium
MA Theories of Urban practice (in progress) Parsons School of Design
MFA Painting - Savannah College of Art and Design
BFA Painting/ Printmaking - Savannah College of Art anf Design
Research Interests
social practice, design, painting, urbanism, migation, activism, community arts, critical pedagogy