Regina Efendieva

Regina Efendieva is a visual artist based in Toronto. She is an oil painter who primarily works with portraiture. As an immigrant, she lives with a foot in two worlds, granting her the outsider’s perspective of a natural storyteller. In her paintings she explores the way brushstrokes and blocks of colour can be used to express emotion and bring to life the personality of her subject.

As someone with Chronic Migraine she sees a lot of auras and fractured lights in her day-to-day life. She uses that way of seeing as a blueprint for how to create the blocks of colour in her work and marry it with her desire to truthfully render her subjects.

She studied at the University of Toronto, earning an Honours Bachelor of Arts with a double major in Visual Arts and English Literature. After graduating, she stepped back from visual art to pursue other artistic dreams, but in 2025 came back to her visual arts practice and is loving exploring this new version of herself in visual storytelling.

University of Toronto Visual Arts and English Literature