Yulia Iosilzon (b. 1992, Moscow) is an Israeli artist who lives and works in London. She graduated from Slade School of Fine Art, University College London with a BA in 2017 and completed an MA in Painting at the Royal College of Art in 2019.
Iosilzon’s figurative paintings on stretched transparent fabric are portals into vivid dreamlike worlds with roots in both ancient mythologies and contemporary social concerns. Her works hint at unfolding narratives of human-animal metamorphosis. Her visual references are wide ranging; she draws on imagery from childhood cartoons and representations of paradise, as well as exploring the Jewish iconography of her heritage. This symbolic language also extends into her ceramic practice.
Modus Operandi marks Iosilzon’s second solo exhibition with Berntson Bhattacharjee after showing with the gallery and Sotheby’s in Stockholm in 2021. Other notable solo exhibitions include Carvalho Park, New York (2023, 2021, and 2019), Sapling in London, De Brock in Knokke and Foundry in Seoul (all 2022), Art Antwerp with De Brock Gallery (2021) and Huxley-Parlour in London (2021). Significant group exhibitions include Atipografia in Arzignano, Badr El Jundi in Madrid, and Project Pangée in Montreal (all 2023); Untitled Art Fair in Miami and Kiaf in Seoul, both with Carvalho Park; Sapling in London; Tabula Rasa in Beijing (all 2022); Berntson Bhattacharjee Gallery in London (2021); Roman Road in London (2021); Space K in Seoul (2020); Hannah Barry Gallery in London (2020); Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds (2019) and Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art (2019).
Iosilzon received the Bloomberg New Contemporaries Award in 2019 and the Audrey Wykeham Prize in 2016.