BIO

Yuri
Marder

Yuri Marder is an artist, cross-cultural coach, web designer, and marketing strategist. He has been doing photographic projects based upon language, culture, identity, and exile for the past 25 years, inspired by the immigrants and refugees in his family, and the many blended cultures he has lived in. A two-time New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship recipient, he has done artist residencies at Light Work in Syracuse, NY, the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, NH, the Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning in Queens, NY, and the Art Center South Florida in Miami, FL. Exhibitions include, Governors Island, NYC, City Lore Gallery, NYC; the Queens Museum, Queens, NY; Grand Central Station, NYC; Light Work Gallery, Syracuse, NY; the Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta, GA; and Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA. Exhibitions were funded by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council for the Arts, and the New York Foundation for the Arts.

Marder's series Mother Tongues, made in collaboration with linguist, Dr. Daniel Kaufman of the Endangered Language Alliance, with videography and art direction by Donnetta Bishop-Johnson, was on view at Governor's Island Artist-in-Residence Program, in New York City during the summer and fall of 2021.