Nika Belianina

Nika Belianina is a Russian-Canadian award-winning fine art photographer and a filmmaker. Her films have won particular acclaim, receiving accolades and screening at the Tribeca Film Festival, Sheffield Doc/Fest and Cinefest Sudbury among many others. Nika’s photographs have been included in over 25 group exhibitions in Canada, Belgium, Peru and the USA. She has been awarded several competitive international artistic residencies, received two honourable mentions at the Neutral Density (ND) awards and was included in Photography Forum’s ‘Best of 2012’ book. She also juried the visual arts section at the Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts (Wyoming) for two seasons.

MA in Social Psychology
Women in Director's Chair

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
05.2023 Contact Photography Festival, Kidner Gallery
06.2022 Toronto Outdoor Art Fair
08.2021 Fresh Voices group show at Abbozzo gallery, Toronto
09.2020 Overzealous group show, Neilson Creative Art Center, Toronto
06.2020 Covid Portraits online group show, Gallery 1313, Toronto
02-03.2020 Vital Signs curated show, Artist Network Gallery, Toronto
06-07.2017 Sobre el Rio group show, Cultural Center of the School of Fine Arts of Peru, Lima
12.2016-02'17 Human Condition curated show at neighbourhood Gallery, Toronto
06-07.2011 36th Annual Paducah Photo, Eiser Art Center, juried show, Paducah, KY, USA
03.2011 Fashioning Photography group juried show, Vermont Photo Space, VT, USA
11.2010 Gallery Moos and M2 group juried show, Toronto
05.2010 Contact Photography Festival, juried show, Ben Navaee Gallery, Toronto
02.2009 Christabel the Creature solo exhibition, JetFuel, Toronto
01.2009 Coming Together, Gallery Gabrichidze, group exhibition, Brussels, Belgium
12.2008 PhotoLab Gallery DK, group exhibition, Toronto

10.2008 Off Camera art show at Filmport Studios, group exhibition, Toronto