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Yvetta Fedorova is a New York city based artist and illustrator who was born in St. Petersburg, Russia. Yvetta graduated from The Drama School of theater and film in1990. In 1991 she immigrated to the USA. Yvetta graduated Pratt institute in 1997 with BFA in Art and Design. Yvetta’s award winning illustration work has been recognized by The Society of Illustrators, American Illustration, and The Society of Publication Designers. Her illustrations regularly appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times (for many years Yvetta illustrated Jane Brody's weekly column), The Boston Globe, The Washington Post and many other popular magazines and newspapers. Yvetta worked regularly as a graphic journalist for Internationale Magazine, based in Rome. Yvetta recently created illustrations for an interactive exhibit at The Museum of Native Americans. Her graphic series “Karina and Me.” appeared in the op-ed section of The New York Times and many other publications around the world. In 2014 Yvetta founded a “Collective Art Lessons” program for pre-teens and teens. For five years the successful program took place in museums across New York. In the last two years Yvetta has taken a drastically new direction and fully committed herself to developing large abstract cut outs. During the pandemic Yvetta created an extensive portfolio of new pieces.