Biata Roytburd

Biata Roytburd was born in Odessa, Ukraine and immigrated to the United States with her family as Jewish refugees from the former Soviet Union in 1990. She received her BFA in Illustration from the School of Visual Arts, New York in 2010. While studying at SVA, Roytburd concurrently began training in ceramics at Choplet Ceramic Studio, Brooklyn. In 2009, she apprenticed to Judy Fox, with whom she also studied anatomy and sculpture in clay at the Salzburg International Academy of Fine Arts. he was awarded a scholarship to attend the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Deer Isle, Maine, in 2010, working as a teacher’s assistant to Cristina Cordova. Other awards include a forthcoming fellowship from Greenwich House Pottery in Spring 2020. Recent exhibitions include those at the Clay Art Center, Port Chester, New York (2019) and Abmeyer + Wood, Seattle (2017), among others. Her commissions include a number of works made for the Empellon Group of restaurants in New York, as well as for several private collectors. Roytburd teaches ceramics at Choplet Ceramic Studio, and has been a visiting instructor at Manhattanville College, Purchase, New York. She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

(Bio Photo Credit: Danny Owens)

Exhibitions

2019 Clay Arts Center, Port Chester, NY Juried Exhibition: The Emotional Animal

2017 Abmeyer + Wood Fine Art, Seattle, WA Two Person Show: Souvenir

2015 Kasher|Potamkin, Miami, FL Group show: Miami Project in conjunction with Miami Art Basel

2015 Kasher|Potamkin, New York, NY Group show: Everything is All White: The New Year Show

2014 Kasher|Potamkin, New York, NY Group show: Intangible Beauty II: Go Out Alone and in the Dark

2014 Kasher|Potamkin, New York, NY Group show: Intangible Beauty I: Beautiful Women and the Endless Void

2014 Dacia Gallery, New York, NY Group show: Motus in Figuris

2014 Target Gallery, Alexandria, VI Group Show: Identification

2012 Choplet Gallery, Brooklyn, NY Solo show: The Intemperance of Flowers

2011 Choplet Gallery, Brooklyn, NY Solo show: Drillin’ For Oil

Commissions

2019 Private collector, Miami, FL: Relief sculpture/Foyer Mirror

2018 Private collector, New York, NY: Wall hanging relief sculpture and mirror

2016 Empellon, New York, NY: Permanent installation commissioned by Chef Alex Stupak

2014 Empellon Al Pastor, New York, NY: Permanent installation commissioned by Chef Alex Stupak

2013 Empellon Cocina, New York, NY: Permanent installation commissioned by Chef Alex Stupak

Scholarship

2020 Fellowship at Greenwich House Pottery, New York, NY

2010 Teachers Assistant to Cristina Cordova Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME

Press

Beautiful Bizarre Magazine

Created Here

S. Pellegrino The Taste Guide

Kasher Potamkin

Art Slant

Make Magazine

Dacia Gallery

Mentions

Zagat

Wendy Given

Darc Magazine

Boutique Design

Education

Bachelor of Fine Arts, School of Visual Arts | September 2006-May 2010

International Summer Academy of Fine Arts Salzburg | 2009

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