Lioda Conrad Fine Art

Fire is a destructive force. I use it to create some of my most fragile works.
These are not portraits of people.They are portraits of interior states — the ones that don't have names yet. The weight that sits behind composed eyes. The bruised inner life of someone who has learned to appear fine. The turmoil that never quite surfaces. I work in oil, in fumage — flame held close to paper until the face appears in the soot, not drawn but found — and in the kind of line that confesses rather than constructs. I was born in South Africa. I live in France. My work lives in private collections across four continents, with people who recognised something in it they couldn't find language for the before they saw it. If you recognise something in this work, that recognition is the point.— Lioda Conrad

Lioda Conrad is a South African-born artist living and working in France.

Her work is rooted in contrast. Fire and smoke, whose natural tendency is to consume and destroy, become tools for creating images of remarkable delicacy and vulnerability. Through fumage, drawing, painting, and mixed media, she explores the tension between permanence and disappearance, control and chance, strength and fragility.

Rather than pursuing a single style, Conrad follows ideas. Her work moves between portraiture, abstraction, and experimental processes, guided by curiosity about what it means to be human and how stories are carried through marks, materials, and memory.

Having worked across several artistic disciplines and exhibited internationally, she increasingly sees art not as a finished object but as a conversation. This philosophy has led to projects that invite participation, interpretation, and personal connection rather than passive observation.

Conrad's work is held in private collections internationally. She continues to develop new bodies of work from her studio in France, where experimentation remains central to her practice.

"Art does not end when the artist puts down the brush."

4 page Feature Premier Magazine Bidvest International Airport Lounges" March 2018
Harlem Fine Arts Show. New York 2018
Group Exhibition: Artem Gallery Opening
Group Exhibition: Opulent Collector
Group Exhibition: EOS Gallery
Group exhibition : Conte Magazine Inaugural exhibition -44 Stanley
Group Exhibition : Dignity SA Auction for assisted Dying. "The Noble" fetching R100 000
Group Exhibition : Make a Difference Leadership Foundation - Valley Flair Art "Opia" fetching R40 000
Group Exhibition : Make a Difference Leadership Foundation - Valley Flair Art "Opia" fetching
Group Exhibition : Make a Difference Leadership Foundation - ISPS Handa International Invitational - "Untamed Heart" fetching R24 000