Location: San Francisco, CA
Medium: Ceramics, Mixed Media
Website: korotchenko.cc
Evgeniya Korotchenko (b. 1985) is a mixed-media and ceramic artist. She was born in the Soviet Far East, raised in Ukraine, and educated in Russia, and she lived in Mexico for four years before settling in San Francisco in 2025. Her studio has moved with her, from Mérida, Yucatán, to a short-term studio in Seattle, and now to San Francisco, where she is a Studio Artist at Root Division.
Before turning to contemporary art, Korotchenko spent about a decade in research psychology and social research. That work included published studies on women’s confidence and, earlier, on the semantics of art. In 2024 she showed work in Ensayo visual sobre el encuentro, a group exhibition curated by Alberto Arceo at Centro Cultural El Olimpo in Mérida. Since moving to the Bay Area she has shown in All Form No Function at 120710 in Berkeley (2026). She was also one of the first group of 2026 Madrone Artist Grant recipients and was featured in the grant showcase at Madrone Art Bar in San Francisco. Her work is held in private collections in Mexico and the United States.
Korotchenko works with fired and unfired ceramic, porcelain, paper, and natural fibers. She builds ceramic structures, breaks them, and sometimes sets the pieces into new grounds of paper on canvas that have their own shape and volume. She treats materials as partners rather than tools. She lets clay shrink as it dries, paper buckle when wet, and fibers refuse to align, and she treats fracture as part of how a piece is built.
Her work returns to displacement, structural collapse, and what becomes possible after a break. It draws on years of moving between countries and cultures. Many pieces have a protagonist that is not a figure but a form caught in the middle of something: leaning, holding, resisting, or searching for its place in a new environment. Soft pastel glazes of pink, blue, and grey sit against these hard themes.
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