Nadia Husty

Biography:

Nadia Husty (b. 1980), currently based in New York City, is an abstract expressionist painter who translates emotions into large-scale immersive visual experiences.

Exhibitions & Art Fairs:

2024
Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, D.C.

Victor Gallery, Washington, D.C.

2025
Galleria Gaudi, Munich, Germany

2026
Victor Gallery, New York, NY
Galleria Gaudi, Madrid
Artio Gallery, Toronto, CA
Museum of Modern Art, Barcelona
Gallery Makowski, New York, NY.

Statement:

“My work emerges from an intimate dialogue between instinct and restraint, where painting becomes both a record and a release of lived emotion. Through sweeping gestures, layered textures, and moments of rupture and stillness, I approach the canvas as psychological terrain rather than a mere static image. Color functions not descriptively but viscerally — carrying the weight of memory, longing, anger, and transformation. Each composition resists resolution, instead holding tension between control and surrender, reflecting the unstable, dynamic, nonlinear nature of feeling and emotion.
Rooted in the evolving experience of female self discovery, my work examines identity as something continually constructed, evolved, fractured, and reclaimed. My paintings trace cycles of vulnerability and control, exploring themes of bodily awareness, inner voice, and the negotiation between societal expectations and individual truth. Rather than illustrating specific narratives, my work invites viewers into an emotional field— a space where the act of viewing becomes a parallel journey of introspection, mirroring my own search for wholeness”.