Represented by Nathalie Karg Gallery, NYC
education
MFA Yale University , New Haven, CT
BA Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
solo and two person exhibitions
2024
Nathalie Karg Gallery, New York, NY, The Drawing Lesson
Fahrenheit Madrid, Spain, Vera Iliatova / Judith Linhares curated by Dona Nelson
College of William and Mary, VA Oblivion Revisited
The Mill, Westport NY Vera Iliatova: Prints and Drawings
2023
Fahrenheit Madrid, Madrid, Spain, Secret Place
Catskillls Art Center, Vera Iliatova
2021
Nathalie Karg Gallery, New York, NY Akademiya
Fahrenheit Madrid, Madrid, Spain, A Secret Place
Liberal Arts Roxbury, NY Nowhere Near
2020
Monya Rowe Gallery, New York, NY, Nothing is real and everything is possible
2019
Monya Rowe Gallery, New York, NY Vera Iliatova / Heidi Hahn
2017
Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY, Drift
Monya Rowe Gallery, St. Augustin, FL, Views, Scenes and Other
2015
Monya Rowe Gallery, New York, NY, For Now, At Once
Barbara Walters Gallery, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY, Swept
2013
Monya Rowe Gallery, New York, NY, Days of Never
2011
Monya Rowe Gallery, New York, NY, Terrain Vague
2010
LaMontagne Gallery, Boston, MA, Recent Work
2009
Monya Rowe Gallery, New York, NY, Closer Than They Appear
2007
Monya Rowe Galley, New York, NY, Any Where Out of the World
selected group exhibitions
2025
Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL Fairyland 2 curated by Valerie Hegarty
12.26 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Waiting on Tenterhooks
2024
James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY Arcadia and Elsewhere
Orwell’s Garden, Brooklyn, NY On Drawing
2023
Nathalie Karg Gallery, New York, NY Unrequited Love (curator)
Massey Klein Gallery, New York, NY Kids Without Internet curated by Thea Smolinsky
Lehman College Art Gallery, New York, NY Women Artists and the New Historicism (catalogue)
2022
The Warehouse , Dallas, TX, Out of Body, Out of Mind, curated by Kevin Delahunty, Brandan Dugan and Howard Rachofsky,
2021
The Pit LA, Palm Springs, CA, Cake Show, curated by Thea Smolinsky
2020 Winter Street Gallery, Edgartown, MA, Zigzag over Essence
Inman Gallery, Houston, TX Animal Crossing
Monya Rowe Gallery, New York, NY Outside Touch
2019
Katonah Museum of Art, LandEscape, curated by Olga Decalo and Michele WijeBRIC, Biennial III, Brooklyn, New York, (catalogue)
Nancy Littlejohn Fine Arts, Houston, TX Certain Women
Essex Flowers, AXxoN N, curated by Sean McCarthy and Jon Ehrenberg
2018
A.P.T Gallery, London, UK, Slatterns, curated by Kathryn Maris (catalogue)
Tibor de Nagy Gallery, Summertime
Shirley Fireman Art Center, BMCC, New York NY, Natural Proclivities
VAAD Gallery, Free University of Tbilisi, Tbilisi, Georgia USPS (curator)
2017
Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA, Artist as Maggid
Inman Gallery, Houston, TX, Stories Told
Miami Dade College Kendall Gallery, Women Painting: selections from the collection ofFrancie Bishop Good and David Horwitz (catalogue)
Freight and Volume, New York, NY, The Secret Life of Plants,(catalogue)
2016
Inman Gallery, Houston, TX, Homelife
Fridman Gallery, New York, NY, Dasha Shishkin, Kelly McRaven, Vera Iliatova
Plug Projects, Kansas City, MO, You’ll never be as young as you are today
Barbara Walters Gallery, Bronxville, NY, Flat Screen, Split Screen, Smoke Screen
Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn, NY, Repeat Pressure Until
2015
James Barron Art, Kent, CT, August Flowers
68Projects, Berlin, Germany, You Don’t Bring me Flowers, curated by Quang Bao 2014
Girls Club Collection, Fort Lauderdale, FL, The Moment, The Backdrop, The Persona
Monya Rowe Gallery, New York, NY, Absent Friends curated by Paul Schrader
College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA, Color Imagined and Observed
6205 Santa Monica Blvd, Los Angeles, CA, Cat Art Show LA
2013
Monya Rowe Gallery, New York, NY, Being Paul Schrader
FJORD Gallery, Philadelphia, Wandering Planar
2012
David Castillo Gallery, Miami, FL, Harumi Abe, Vera Iliatova and Yui Kumigiya
2011
Sherman Gallery, Boston University, Boston, MA, Fresh Flowers
441 PAS Gallery, New York, NY, Shapeshifters, curated by Laurel Sparks
2010
Schroeder Romero and Shredder Gallery, Vivid, curated by Janet Phelps
560 Broadway, New York, NY, New Paintings, curated by Renee Bovenzi
CTRL Gallery, Houston, TX, Precarity and the Butter Tower
106 Green, Brooklyn, NY, Tenants, curator
Gross Mcleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, People, Places (catalogue)
2009
Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA, Figuratively Seeing (catalogue)
Dust Gallery, Las Vegas, NV, Yo Mamma, Sheila Pepe and friends, curated by Sheila Pepe
SCA Contemporary, Albuquerque, NM, Fuckheads: Portraiture for Silicon Enlightment
Peter Fengesten Gallery, Pace University, New York, NY, Insomnia
2008
11 Rivington Gallery, NY, NY, Play It as it Lays/Sentimental education, curated by Kevin Zucker
Monya Rowe Gallery, New York, NY, The guys we would fuck, curated by Nayland Blake
Monya Rowe Gallery, New York, NY; Get up off our knees
2007
Mogadishni, Copenhagen, Denmark; Vera, Larissa and Rebecca
Galleria Glance, Torino, Italy; Somewhere over the Rainbow
2006
Artists Space; New York, NY; Mind/Body Problem; curated by Christian Rattemeyer
New Langton Art Center, San Francisco, CA; Squatting at New Langton
Rosenberg Gallery at NYU, New York, NY; Coupling; curated by Ali Gass and Paulina Pobochny
Monya Rowe Gallery, NY, NY; Available, a Still Life Show
Nelson Gallery and Fine Arts Collection, UC Davis, CA; Flatlanders
2005
Portland Museum of Art; Portland, ME; PMA Biannual (catalogue)
Nelson Gallery; UC Davis, CA; The Long and Short of It; curated by Renny Pritkin
2004
FPAC Gallery, Boston, MA Persona; curator
Skowhegan County Fair, Skowhegan, ME Skowhegan Projects
2003
Delta Axis Contemporary Art Center, Memphis, TN; It’s a Human World
2001
Yale School of Art Gallery; New Haven, CT; MFA Thesis Show
press and publications
2024
Two Coates of Paint: Vera Iliatova: Women in the Studio Now and Then, Larissa Bates, March
Rachel Galvin, Uterotopia, Persea Books, January
2022
Architectural Digest, Spain, Arte: La galería Fahrenheit se hace un hueco en pleno Madrid conartistas de la Gran Manzana, Pablo Gandía, March 4
2021
CUNY TV, Twilight Talks: Kevin Moore interviews Vera Iliatova, March
Create Magazine, Vera Iliatova Interview Feature, Issue 23, Spring
2020
The Gardan Journal, Vera Iliatova, interview with Catherine Ross and Kate Moses, October
MV Times, Arts & Entertainment, Expect the unexpected at Winter Street Gallery, Gwyn McAllister, September 30,
Art Critical, Criticism, Vera Iliatova: Over the Brooklyn Bridge to Letniy Sad (Summer Garden), Anna Shukeylo, April 8
Booooooom, Painting, Artist Spotlight: Vera Iliatova, Editors, March 27
Harper’s Magazine, Monday Gallery, Nothing is Real, Editors, March 26
London Review of Books, On Rachael Allen, Matthew Bevis, March 5,
The Asian Curator, Artist Profile, Vera Iliatova’s Women in Movement, Santana Borah, March 2
2019
ArtPulse Magazine, Reviews, Natural Proclivities, Peter Drake, July
The Red Hook Star Revue, Artseen, Vera Iliatova’s Women in Movement, Erika Veurink , April 7
Art & Antiques, An Innovative Show at the Katonah Museum of Art Juxtaposes Modernist and Contemporary Art, Elizabeth Pandolfi, April
The Brooklyn Rail, Artseen, BRIC Biennial: Volume III, “The Impossible Possible”, Nina Wolpow, March 7
Houston Chronicle, Art review, Molly Glentzer, July
BRIC House, Bric Biennial Volume III, exhibition catalogue, February
2018
Time Out, The Top Five New York Art Shows This Week, Howard Halle, August 20
Artnews, 9 Art Events to Attend in New York This Week, Editors, August 6
Artnet, Editors’ Picks: 11 Things Not to Miss in New York’s Art World This Week, Taylor Dafo
Artnews, 9 Art Events to Attend in New York This Week, Editors, 08/06/18
Poetry London, Curating Slatterns, essay by Kathryn Maris, 07/18
2017
KQED Arts, Artist as Maggid offers a Modern Day Spin on Classic Jewish Tales, Dani Burlison,
jweekly.com, These Artists Put a New Spin on Old Folktales at CJM, Laura Paull, 09/25/17
Artnet, Editors’ Picks: 10 Things to See in New York This Week, Sarah Cascone, 04/10/17
Freight and Volume Gallery, The Secret Life of Plants” catalogue, 2017
Sarah Lawrence College, Flat Screen, Split Screen, Smoke Screen, catalogue, 2017
2016
Art in America, Reviews, Heidi Hahn, Julia Wolkoff, 05/09
2015
Art News, New York Reviews: Vera Iliatova, Alex Greenberger, 06/01
The Wall Street Journal, Arts and Entertainment, Vera Iliatova: For Now, At Once”,Peter Plagens
The Girls Club Collection, The Moment. The Backdrop. The Persona. exhibition catalogue, 2015
The New York Times, Art in Review, Vera Iliatova: For Now, At Once”, Ken Johnson, 03/19/15
Hyperallergic, Galleries, Painted Glimpses of the Lives of Fictional Characters, Rob Colvin
2014
The New York Times, T Magazine, An American film icon’s favorite art works, Johnny Magdaleno,
Art F City, This Week’s Must-See Art Events: Vintage Violence, Whitney Kimball, 5/19/14
2013
Artforum.com, critics picks: Vera Iliatova, Ryan E. Steadman, 3/26
The New York Observer, Arts, Inaugural Group Exhibition, Will Heinrich, 9/30
The Voice of Russia, The Culture Report, Russian-American artist brings complexities of modern life to the canvas”, Rob Sachs, 5/31/13
New American Paintings blog; Vera Iliatova: Days of Never, Nadiah Fellah, 3/18/13
The Huffington Post; Must See Painting Shows: February 2013, Steven Zevitas, 2/10/13
2011
Time Out New York, Arts: Critics’ Picks, Vera Iliatova, Terrain Vague , Howard Halle, January 19
The New York Times, Weekend Arts, Vivid:Female Currents in Painting, Roberta Smith, January21
2010
The Philadelphia Inquirer, Weekend, 7 for the Show, Victoria Donohoe, 8/6/10ArtInfo, Editor’s Pick, In New York: Gallery Openings This Weekend, Andrew Russeth, 8/18,
The Houston Chronicle, Art, Check Two Exhibits Before They’re Gone, Douglas Britt, 6/24/10
The Boston Globe; Arts, Two Artists at the Edge of Nature, Kate McQuaid, 5/5/10
Big Red and Shiny; Teeny Boppers and Butch Dykes: A New Reality Show, Hannah Barrett, 5/23
New American Paintings Editor’s Pick, Monica Ramirez-Montagut, curator Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, # 86, 3/10
Bomb, BOMBlog; Vera Iliatova’s Tenants, Richard Goldstein, 03/29/1
2009
Art in America; Exhibition Reviews, Vera Iliatova, Joe Fyfe, 10/09 with reproduction
The New York Times; Weekend Arts, Closer Than They Appear, Roberta Smith,
2008
The New York Sun, Arts, Paintings, Jayanith Daniel, 05/05/08
2007
The New York Times; Weekend Arts, Last Chance, Vera Iliatova; Holland Cotter, 01/16/07
The New York Sun; Vera Iliatova: Seasonal Scenes, Jayanthi Daniel, 01/16/07, with reproduction
Torrino Sette; Il Mondo di OZ visto dale donne; Lisa Parola, 07/29/07, with reproduction
2006
Nelson Gallery; Flatlanders; A Regional Round Up; catalogue
Gay City News; Still Life as Practice, Subject and Lense at Monya Rowe; Sheila Pepe;03/30/06,with reproduction
SF Weekly; Sitting in. 25 artists, 5 spaces, 5 weeks, and a multitude of visions; Lea Feinstein, 6/26/06
2005
Portland Museum of Art; PMA Biannual; exhibition catalogue
awards
2023 Cafe Royal Cultural Foundation Visual Artist Grantee
2018 NYFA Award in Painting
2021 FST Studio Project Fund Grant
2007/2008 Marie Walsh Sharpe Space Program Free Studio Space
2005 UC Davis faculty research grant, UC Davis
2004 Skowhegan Fellowship, Skowhegan School of Art
2001 Gloucester Landscape Fellowship, Yale School of Art
1999 Vermont Studio Center Residency Award, Yale School of Art
1999 Mortymar Hays Traveling Fellowship, Brandeis University
1999 Richard Ryan Sr. Memorial Award, Brandeis University