The Island of Utopia Painting

Nina Pancheva’s art practice encompasses paintings and installations. She completed her PhD at the University of Southampton in 2015. Her practice-based research looked at contemporary painting in relation to Socialist Realism. She received her MFA at the same university in 2011. Her BA in Painting she obtained at the Academy of Fine Arts, Plovdiv, Bulgaria. Among the prizes that her works have received are: shortlisted for London Biennale 2021, selected for the final exhibition of Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize, London; first place prize for painting in the competition of “Anastas Staykov” Foundation and National Endowment Fund “13 Centuries Bulgaria”; shortlisted for the final exhibition of Beep International Painting Prize, Swansea, Wales, etc. Selected as one of the artists to represent Bulgaria at Henkel and KulturKontakt competition in Vienna, Austria. Co-organizer of series of seminars as part of the collaborative project “Looking at Images” between University of Southampton and Goldsmiths University, London. Her works can be found in many public and private art collections in the UK and abroad.