Stacey Nova

I'm a London based contemporary painter specialising in oil painting. With a background in traditional academic art, my work explores the body through raw, immersive and emotionally honest compositions that challenge conventional ideas of beauty, sensuality and imperfection.

Trained in academic art in Moscow, I later developed a more contemporary visual language through studies at Parsons in New York, Central Saint Martins and Goldsmiths in London.

After moving to London, my practice became less about following what I had been taught and more about unlearning it: stripping away rules, polish and expectation to create work that feels unmistakably my own.

I’ve been painting for over 15 years. My work is rooted in personal experience, embodiment, human relationships and the way we learn to perceive ourselves through others. Working primarily in oil, I create raw, intimate and provocative paintings that sit between vulnerability and confrontation.

My practice is driven by the desire to take what society often treats as shameful, uncomfortable or imperfect and make it visible, powerful and beautiful. Through my work, I aim to create a sense of release: an invitation to look without apology, to feel without shame, and to return to th...

Parsons, New York
Central Saint Martins
Goldsmiths, University London
Stroganov Academy of art, Moscow