Yulia Frydin
Yulia Frydin (b. 1983, Kyiv) is a multidisciplinary Israeli artist, painter, photographer, choreographer, performer, and writer. She immigrated to Israel in 1990 and graduated from the Midrasha Faculty of the Arts at Beit Berl. She currently lives and works in Tel Aviv–Jaffa.
Frydin’s practice moves fluidly between watercolor painting, photography, dance, performance, movement research, and somatic practice. Her work is rooted in autobiography, examining the layered identity of a secular Jewish woman, artist, mother, Soviet immigrant, and Israeli. Personal memories and everyday experiences become starting points for broader reflections on migration, belonging, femininity, motherhood, the body, and the relationship between human beings and nature.
Her paintings are often intimate and psychologically suggestive, using the transparency and fluidity of watercolor to create images suspended between observation, memory, and imagination. Frydin has participated in exhibitions at Alfred Cooperative Institute for Art and Culture, Ein Hod Gallery, Pyramida Center for Contemporary Art, and the Artists’ Greenhouse at Fresh Paint Art Fair. Her performances, which combine movement, text, humor, and audience participation, have also been presented in galleries and public spaces.