Yahn Nemirovsky (he/they) is an artist, craftsperson and educator based in Toronto, interested in the intersections of textile and paper media practices. In his making, he takes inspiration from the intimate object worlds of perzines, stitching samplers, and other ephemeral media. Combining techniques of embroidery, collage, watercolour and appliqué, he creates hybrid objects which are given a first-person voice with stitched text.

Attentive to the applications of queer theory to craft, Yahn looks to complicate binary understandings of value assignment and classification for objects and making practices. He centers play and fluidity in the making of his work, and in contemplating objects’ care and lifespans. Yahn seeks to facilitate an experience wherein the viewer and the object both know something deeply true about one another.

Yahn received their BFA in Material Art & Design: Textiles from OCAD University in 2020. Their work has been exhibited at Riverdale Hub Gallery, Ed Video Media Arts Centre, Xpace Cultural Centre, The Morris and Sally Justein Heritage Museum at Baycrest Health Sciences, Beaver Hall Gallery, Glory Hole Gallery and D-Beatstro. They have developed and facilitated arts and craft education programming with Baycrest Health Sciences, the Textile Museum of Canada, the Art Gallery of Guelph, Arts4All and Community Arts Guild.