Blue Velvet, 2024

Nano Nasty  

Nano Nasty is a multidisciplinary artist. She has been in art for more than fifteen years, and for the past three years has been building a visual language around a pair of colors — red and blue. For her, this is not just a palette but a system of coordinates inspired by Freud's psychoanalysis and the ways the subconscious, desire, and memory shape inner worlds.

Since childhood, she has been shaped by the imagery of Dalí, Bosch, Miyazaki, as well as the absurdity and plasticity of Soviet animation — The Blue Puppy and Garri Bardin's Little Red Riding Hood. This visual absurdity and play with stereotypes continue to nourish her intuition. She increasingly turns her attention to people's inner states, the nuances of feelings, transitions, and shades. Her work emerges at the intersection of gesture, matter, and mood. She is drawn to corporeality, memory, natural rhythms, and sensual receptivity. Waves, cracks, porous surfaces become elements of her language. For her, intuition is the ability to hear space and move with its rhythm.

Spiritual and bodily practices support her inner balance and become a continuation of the artistic process.

Education
2017 – MFA Fine Arts, San Francisco Art Institute, USA
2015 – BA (Hons) Art Direction and Styling, Istituto Marangoni, London, UK
2012 – Environmental Design, Stroganov State University of Art and Industry, Moscow, Russia

Galleries and platforms
Since 2025 – Resident at A2 Galerie, Potsdam, Germany. link
Since 2023 – Resident of the online gallery platform Bizar, Moscow, Russia. link

Ongoing projects
Nano Nasty Box (since 2024)
Online project and cyanotype art kit that combines material experimentation, participatory practices and artistic alchemy. The project involves the viewer in the creation of images through working with light-sensitive solutions and sunlight.

Nano Nasty (since 2022)
Personal online gallery and art boutique where the artist offers commissioned paintings and sculptural works with a focus on sensuality. The project's style is expressive, intuitive and enigmatic: each work tells its own story and is created from the artist's emotional and aesthetic impulse.

Selected exhibitions

2025 – Bodylandscapes in 2 acts, exhibition with Ksenia Malurika and Valeriia Burliuk, curated by Anna Galeeva, TAKT Berlin, Kopenhagener Str. 31b, 10437 Berlin, Germany; funded by Berlin Senat, Culture Department of Pankow district

2025 – Neighborhood Art Club, public project, Moscow, Russia – project artist; created a series of site-specific objects integrated into the environment.

2023 – Urban Alchemy, Matadero, Madrid, Spain — part of a group of artists exploring the symbolism and memory of materials; presented a series of objects Material Alchemies.

2022 – New Coordinates, Contemporary Art Space, Berlin, Germany — presentation of the series Red and Blue Chronicles, working with a system of subconscious coordinates.

2021 – Tactile Abstractions, Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany — solo exhibition of relief canvases where touch becomes a medium.

2019 – Echoes of Matter, Künstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria — exploration of the memory of matter in a collaborative project with local artists.

2018 – Bombay Beach Biennale, Salton Sea, USA — presented a series of sculptural objects made of cement, metal and pigments as a metaphor for temporality and decay; directed a performance piece.

2018 – That That Gallery, Los Angeles, USA — group exhibition, presented sculptural mixed-media works.

2017 – COMFOTSTRICTIONS, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, USA — spatial installation exploring the limits of corporeality.

2017 – MFA SFAI Show, Old Mint, San Francisco, USA — final MFA exhibition, series of works at the intersection of sculpture and performance.

2016 – Textale, Swell Gallery, San Francisco, USA — installation made of fabric, cement and pigments, exploring the interaction between the organic and the artificial.

2016 – The Everyday and the Epic, Travelling Show, New York / Helsinki / Milan — international group exhibition; presented a series of objects on everyday life as epic.

2015 – Marine Influences on Fashion Industry, Zarya, Vladivostok, Russia — object-based works inspired by the marine environment and its influence on fashion.

2014 – Now and Then, Print House Gallery, London, UK — exhibition of emerging artists; series of paintings about memory and time.