Yochi Y. Avin

Yochi Yakir-Avin is a multidisciplinary artist whose work encompasses painting, object making, and installations. Her art merges these mediums to examine time and memory, emphasizing an understanding of both personal and collective history. By exploring how memories shape our perception of the world, she seeks to create a dialogue that fosters emotional and intellectual connections.

Yakir-Avin frequently uses monochrome to evoke the material softness of faded photographs, highlighting the way images, like language, function. She employs disarming, recycled, and found materials that carry tangible remnants of time, prompting reflection on the transient and mutable nature of memory.

Born in Poland and raised in Israel, Yochi Yakir-Avin is currently based in South Florida.

She is a resident artist and art instructor at Studio 18 Art Complex in Broward, Florida. She pursued her fine arts education in both Israel and Italy, with a BFA from the Brera Academy of Arts in Milan.

Yakir-Avin has recently been awarded the Broward Innovation Grant 2024 for her project “Painting Life in Pictures”, a collaboration and fusion of visual art and theater, marking the next step in her artistic evolution. This project, a testament to her ongoing research known as “The Memory Project,” follows three personal exhibitions held in 2020, 2021, and 2022, all supported by grants from the Broward County Cultural Division.

Her work has been showcased in various notable exhibitions, including the Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art in Wisconsin, the Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club in New York, the Salmagundi Art Club in New York, the Lore Degenstein Gallery in Pennsylvania, and the B.J. Spoke Gallery in New York. Locally, her work has been exhibited at the Coral Springs Museum of Art, The Frank Gallery in Pembroke Pines, the MIFA Gallery in Miami, and the JCC Museum in Boca Raton, among others.