CURRICULUM VITAE
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019 Princesses and Horses, Gallery of Craft Council of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC
Clay Dreams, Circle Craft Gallery, Vancouver, BC
Princesses and Monsters, Italian Cultural Centre, Vancouver, BC
Anyuta's Dreamscape, Gallery at Pottery Northwest, Seattle, WA
2016 Functures, Functional Sculptures, Port Moody Arts Centre, Port Moody, BC
2014 The Taming of The Minotaur, Il Museo at the Italian Cultural Centre (curated by Angela Clarke, Ph.D.), Vancouver, BC
2014 Anyuta, multimedia exhibition, Tabula Rasa Gallery, Vancouver, BC
1995 Porcelain Miniature Sculpture, Sukhanov Historical Museum, Vladivostok, Russia
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019 ICAN Ceramic Arts Network, NCECA, Minneapolis, MN
2018 Finalist, 22nd National Ceramic Competition, San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, Texas
2017 Unwedged, Pottery Northwest, Seattle, WA
IDS Design Show, September, Vancouver, BC
Monsters Inc., two-artist show, Gallery of BC Ceramics, Vancouver, BC
Search for Meaning exhibition, Seattle University, Seattle, WA
In Darkness, Lipont Art Place, Richmond, BC
2016 Sculptors’ Society of BC Group Show, North West Sculpture Gallery, Bellingham, WA
9th Annual Sculpture Show c/o the Sculptors’ Society of BC, VanDusen Botanical Garden, Vancouver, BC
2015 8th Annual Sculpture Show c/o the Sculptors’ Society of BC, VanDusen Botanical Garden, Vancouver, BC
The Different Faces of Femininity, Britannia Art Gallery, BC
Art Beat, Harmony Arts Festival, West Vancouver, BC
Purely Paper, Cityscape Community Art Space, North Vancouver Arts Council
LabArtShow, Roundhouse, Vancouver, BC
2014 Bring-It-Together: With Sculpture, presented by the Burnaby and BC Art Councils, Deer Lake Gallery, Burnaby, BC
2013 Derivatives of Figure, Basic Inquiry, Vancouver, BC
The Art of Motherhood, organized by Langley Centennial Museum and the Langley Memorial Hospital Foundation, Langley
Centennial Museum & National Exhibition Center, Fort Langley, BC
2012 4th Annual Sculpture Show c/o the Sculptors’ Society of BC, VanDusen Botanical Garden, Vancouver, BC
Women Who Work With Metal, Maple Ridge Art Gallery, Maple Ridge, BC
The Circle, The Cultch, Vancouver, BC
2010 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics Urban Art Exhibition at Cypress Mountain, Vancouver, BC
2009 Living Between Two Cultures, CityScape Community Art Space, North Vancouver, BC
2006 Sculpture Show, Moscow House of Sculpture, Moscow, Russia
2005 Moscow Stone Sculpture Symposium, Muzeon Sculpture Park, Moscow, Russia
ACHIEVEMENTS & AWARDS
2018-2020 Art Residency with Pottery Northwest, Seattle, WA
2017 Winner of the design competition to create the new national Canadian Legend Award initiated by the Canadian College of
Performing Arts. The first Award being granted to David Foster on June 30, 2017, Victoria BC
2016 DTES Small Arts Grant recipient, Vancouver, BC
Two paintings and two sculptures were featured in the movie Fifty Shades Darker.
2013 Finalist, City of Vancouver’s IRONCLAD ART manhole cover design challenge, Vancouver, BC
2007 Finalist, Une Oeuvre de Faience, the 5th international sculpture competition, Musée Départemental Breton à Quimper,
Brest, France
SELECTED PRESS & REVIEWS
2017 Featured in interview, Harpreet Singh Show, Joy TV, August 2017
Featured in Malcolm Parry’s Town Talk, The Vancouver Sun, July 14, 2017.
2016 Featured in Heavens to Mergatroid. Stories and creativity galore inside unsuspecting building by Rebecca Blissett,
Vancouver Courier, Nov, Vancouver, BC
Featured in The Home Front: Six Design Studios Worth a Visit in Vancouver by Rebecca Keillor, the Vancouver Sun,
Dec, Vancouver, BC
2015 Featured in Highlights from the 2015 Eastside Culture Crawl by Cristina Belmonte, The Westender, November 24,
Vancouver, BC
Featured in Town Talk by Malcolm Parry, The Vancouver Sun, Aug 8, 2015
Interview, Arts Rational with Gerry Kowalenko, Coop Radio, Vancouver, BC
Featured in article The Medium Tells the Message by Katy Thompson, The Source, Vancouver, BC
2014 Featured in article Artist and Sculptor Anyuta Gusakova by Angela Fama, MonteCristo Magazine, Vancouver, BC
2014 Featured in article East Vancouver Culture Crawl by Meredith Nicole, The Province, Vancouver, BC
2011 Featured in article Walk of Artists by Noa Glouberman, Canadian Immigrant, Vancouver, BC
2010 Featured in article Metal Sculpture Queens Get Tough at the Eastside Culture Crawl by Jessica Werb, Georgia Straight,
Vancouver, BC
2010 TV spot on Teddy Bear Molecules sculptures with Jeffrey Boon, Global TV News, Vancouver, BC
1997 Interview on Vladivostok Television, Canadaladivostok, Russia
1996 Featured in article Mermaid Called Anya by Olga Maltseva, Vladivostok newspaper # 346, Vladivostok, Russia
SELECTED COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
2016 Sponsor of Achieve and Lead Women’s Conference organized by Mompreneurs Organization (supplied award statuettes
for winners in diverse business categories)
“Pacific Bear” sculpture donated to the Vancouver Children’s Hospital fundraiser
2015 Participant of the European Festival, Burnaby
2009– ongoing Annual participant, Eastside Culture Crawl, Vancouver, BC
2014 Art Beat Project, a fundraiser for Little Footprints, Big Steps, Belkin House, Vancouver, BC
2013 Bikram’s Yoga Metrotown mural project, designer, project coordinator and artist, Burnaby, BC
2010 Kerrisdale Little League mural project at Elm Park, designer, artist and project coordinator, Vancouver, BC
2009 Vancouver Eastside mural project at the Russian Hall, contributing artist, under project coordination of Richard Tetrault,
Vancouver, BC
COMMISSIONS & FREELANCE
2001–08 Designer and sculptor for props, design and specialty houses in Moscow, Russia, including Moiseikin Jewelry House, Trulov
Props Studio, Krasny Okyabr Chocolate Factory, Rubezh Jewelry House and diverse architectural firms
1992–95 Designer and sculptor for Vladivostok Porcelain Factory, Vladivostok, Russia
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2006–ongoing Private and group instructor for sculpture and drawing classes
2012–13 Drawing instructor, Capilano University Continuing Studies, North Vancouver, BC
2013 Drawing instructor, Carnegie Community Centre, Vancouver, BC
2010–11 Sculpture and clay animation volunteer instructor, Boys & Girls Club at Fraserview, Vancouver, BC
2010 Drawing instructor, The Art Studios run by Vancouver Coastal Health, Vancouver, BC
PROFESSIONAL TRAINING
2000–06 MFA equivalent diploma | Stroganov Academy of Art & Design, Moscow, Russia
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Major in sculpture
1984–88 Young Talents | Vladivostok, Russia
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Four-year program for young artists with a focus on classical forms