Yulia Gasio is a Ukrainian-born artist, educator, and researcher whose interdisciplinary practice examines landscape, cultural memory, displacement, identity, and the enduring effects of colonial and imperial histories. Originally from Luhansk in the Donbas region of Ukraine and now based in Southern California, Gasio works across painting, drawing, research, and collaborative cultural projects. Her practice is informed by her experience of migration and by an ongoing engagement with Ukrainian visual culture, decolonial thought, and the ways histories become embedded within landscapes, objects, and cultural practices.

Gasio’s work combines studio practice with teaching, research, and community building. She is particularly interested in creating exchanges between artists, students, institutions, and communities across geographic and cultural boundaries. Through painting and interdisciplinary research, she considers how visual art can recover overlooked histories, create spaces for dialogue, and connect individual experience to larger questions of place, belonging, memory, and cultural resilience.