Vanessa Yanow is a multidisciplinary queer artist. She works across diverse media, including flame worked glass, digital embroidery, collage, artifacts, photography, wearable art, drawing, textiles and found objects. Yanow enriches her deeply imaginative and tactile artmaking practice with research whose diversity includes issues of female and queer representation in the history of art and craft, queer sexualities and gender expressions, microbiology, climate change, and community care. Vanessa currently lives and works in Tiohtià:ke aka Montreal out of The Long Haul – a nonprofit, artist-run organisation that they cofounded in 2001. Since co-founding and coordinating this 10,000 square foot visual art work space, she has mentored emerging artists, advocated for their group, curated exhibitions, all while producing several large bodies of her own work that have been exhibited Nationally and Internationally. Yanow’s sculptures are part of the city of Montreal’s permanent collection, the MUMAQ, and Le Musée National des Beaux Arts in Québec City. Her wearable art pieces have been showcased in museum shops across North America, Including MOMA NY, Museum of Art and Design, The Folk Art museum and more.
photo: YagubAllahverdiyev