A Look at the Ukrainian Diaspora: Featuring Maya Hayuk and Betty Roytburd, in conversation with Adriana Farmiga
JUNE 30 2022 1pm Eastern Time
Featuring Maya Hayuk, Betty Roytburd and Adriana Farmiga. We conclude with a poetry reading by Maya Hayuk.
In this talk
This is Part III of an ongoing series, Ukrainians on Ukraine, organized by Adriana Farmiga, Katya Grokhovsky, and Slinko.
Maya Hayuk
![A photo of [Maya Hayuk] in front of one of her colorful murals.](https://brooklynrail.org/media/files/maya-bio-pic.jpeg?nf_resize=fit&w=250 "A photo of [Maya Hayuk] in front of one of her colorful murals.")
Maya Hayuk is a Ukrainian-American artist with an extensive background in a wide range of generative art and social practices. Hayuk weaves visual information from her immediate surroundings into elaborate, painterly abstractions, thus creating an engaging mix of referents from popular culture and advanced painting practices alike. Her large-scale, improvised murals speak to the artist’s obsession with symmetry, “perfect imperfection” and outer/ inner space. Hayuk’s work has been the subject of one person exhibitions and commissions at venues including FRAC Museum in Dunkerque, FR (2019), The Ukrainian Museum New York (2017), The Bowery Wall, NY (2014), and The Hammer Museum, LA (2013).
Betty Roytburd
![A photo of [Betty Roytburd].](https://brooklynrail.org/media/files/betty-royt.jpg?nf_resize=fit&w=250 "A photo of [Betty Roytburd].")
Artist and activist Betty Roytburd (b.1989, Odesa, Ukraine) lives and works in New York City. Her sculptural installations, videos, and writing have been featured in publications such as Arcadia Missa’s How to Sleep Faster, as well as in group and solo exhibitions at CSRA, Jack Hanley, Alyssa Davis, Good Enough ATL, 15 Orient, Gern en Regalia and Kimberly Klark galleries. Her work reflects on the decomposition of memory and the weaponization of nostalgia. She is the co-founder of SPILKA NGO and is currently in pursuit of an MSW at the Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College.
Adriana Farmiga
Interdisciplinary artist Adriana Farmiga is an educator and associate Dean at The Cooper Union. Farmiga received her MFA from Bard College in 2004, and has shown in group and solo exhibitions in the United States and abroad. Her work has been reviewed in the New York Times and Artforum, among other publications, and ranges from conceptual still life to video and mixed media sculpture