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SVETLANA ASKENAZY

Mixed Media & Abstract Artist
Highland Mills, NY

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Instagram: @asklanaart
Email: asklanaart@gmail.com

SOLO & TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2025
• Hotel Nyack, Nyack, NY — Two-Person Exhibition (with Arden Klemmer)

AWARDS & RECOGNITION

2025
• First Place, The Color of Water — Online Exhibition, Bluefield Exhibits (hosted with the Cultural Alliance of Western Connecticut)
• Honorable Mention, Interpretation of the Self, The Art Guild, Manhasset, NY
• Third Place, Festival of the Arts: Photo, Art & Poetry Exhibition

CURATORIAL & LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE

2025
• Lead Curator, Meditation in Blue, Saint Marks Arts, New York, NY
• Exhibition & Program Coordinator, Saint Urban Art Creative Collective
• Program & Events Coordinator, Woodbury Art Council
• Juror / Judge, Woodbury Art Council Plein Air Event — Evaluated plein air artworks and contributed to artist selection and feedback.

ART FAIRS

• ArtExpo New York (2025)
• Hamptons Fine Art Fair (2024, 2025)
• VOLTA New York (2024)

 SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2026

• 04.09.2026 - 04.12.2026
  Artexpo New York, Perseus Gallery , Pier 36 NYC, 299 South Street, New York, NY 10002
• 03.18.2026 - 04.11.2026
  In the Heat of Becoming, Collective Z , Collective Z Gallery — 325 Broome Street, Lower East Side, NYC
• 03.5.2026 - 03.29.2026
  4/4, Piermont Flywheel Gallery , 220 Ash St, Piermont, NY 10968
• 02.07.2026 - 03.01.2026

 

2025

• Elements of Transformation, ArtExpo New York, Pier 36, New York, NY
• Summer Spectrum, Perseus Gallery, World Trade Center, New York, NY
• Timeless Blooms, Rockefeller State Park Preserve Gallery, Pleasantville, NY
• The Blue Show, Saint Marks Arts, New York, NY
• Urban/E, Arbor Gallery, Carmel, NY
• Women Who Rock, The Beach Gallery, Keansburg, NJ
• Interpretation of the Self, The Art Guild, Manhasset, NY
• Points of Transition, LIC-Artists, Long Island City, NY
• Places and Spaces: Landscape Juried Exhibition, The Art Guild, Manhasset, NY
• Beauty in Black & White, Art Cotham, New York, NY
• Stories Unfolding, Art Cotham, New York, NY
• 24th Annual Festival of the Arts, Patron of the Arts Association, Wanaque, NJ
• Meditation in Blue, Saint Marks Arts, New York, NY — Artist & Curator
• Future Capsule, Saint Marks Arts, New York, NY

2024

• Works on Paper, Hamptons Fine Art Fair, Southampton, NY
• Spirit of the Season, Women’s Work.Art, Cunneen Hackett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY
• The Red Show, Saint Marks Arts, New York, NY
• STREETS TO CANVAS, Saint Marks Arts, New York, NY
• Materials Matter, Powell Lane Arts, Collingswood, NJ
• Bird Is the Word, Powell Lane Arts, Collingswood, NJ
• The Allegory of Art, Adriaan van der Plas Gallery, New York, NY
• Summer in the City, Art Cotham, New York, NY
• Women’s HERstory, Women’s Work.Art, Poughkeepsie, NY
• Rockland Arts Festival, West Nyack, NY

2023

• Miami Art Week, Art Basel Miami Beach, FL
• Expo Metro, Times Square, New York, NY
• Exploring Worlds of Dreams, Fantasies & Symbolic Imagery, Narrowsburg Union, Narrowsburg, NY
• Artists to Humans, Narrowsburg Union, Narrowsburg, NY

 PUBLICATIONS

• Artistic Tribe NYC, 2025
• Bold Journey Magazine, 2024
• River Reporter, “Dreams and Fantasies,” Bethel Council of the Arts, 2023

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

• Member, Nyack Art Collective (2023–present)
• Member, Arts Council of Rockland (2023–present)
• Curator & Member, Woodbury Art Council (2020–present)
• Curator & Member, Saint Marks Art Council (2024–2025)
• Juried Member, Piermont Flywheel Gallery (2025–present)

PUBLIC ART & COMMUNITY PROJECTS

2025
• Graduation Stage Design, Monroe–Woodbury High School, Woodbury, NY
• Flights of Fancy Birdhouse Fundraiser, Rockefeller State Park Preserve Gallery

2023
• Collaborative Mural, Woodbury Community Center
• Window Art Installations, Town Beautification Program, Woodbury, NY

EDUCATION

• Civil Engineering Management, Penza State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Russia
• Accounting Certificate Program, Kingsborough Community College, Brooklyn, NY

COLLECTIONS

• Private collections in New York and New Jersey