About
Biography
Evgeniya Korotchenko (b. 1985) is a mixed-media and ceramic artist shaped by transitions — born in the USSR Far East, raised in Ukraine, educated in Russia, living in Mexico before settling in San Francisco in 2025. Working with fired and unfired ceramic, paper, and natural fibers, she builds forms, breaks and reimagines them, and sets the pieces into new ground. The work returns to the affective and spatial dimensions of displacement, to structural collapse and what becomes possible only after the break.
Her studio practice developed in parallel with a decade of analytic work in social research, including published studies on women’s confidence and, earlier, on the semantics of art — a register she has kept out of the work itself.
Her work has been exhibited in solo and group shows in Mexico and the United States, and is held in private collections.
Statement
I have spent years moving between cultures, countries, homes — grieving, watching entire ways of life torn apart and whole structures collapse. I know how something deeply familiar can simply close, and there is no path back. This irreversibility is where the work begins.
Materials are partners, not tools. Clay shrinks when dry, paper buckles when wet, fibers refuse to align, and none of it can be hurried. Some of these changes only run one way — firing, breaking, a crack that opens. This is where I attentively work to align my intentions with the material.
I build ceramic structures, break them, and sometimes set the pieces into a different form and a new environment: grounds of paper on canvas with their own shape and volume. In many of them there is a protagonist — not a figure, but a form in the middle of something: holding, leaning, resisting, negotiating, enduring, waiting, shedding, searching for its place in a new environment. Fracture is the condition from which something new becomes possible.