Mila Iloria

Mila Iloria is a Finnish abstract painter whose practice is grounded in a deeply personal, yet archetypal journey of self-knowledge, visualized in a comprehensive cycle of six collections (2012–2025).

Born in the Komi province of the former USSR, within a Gulag settlement designated for exiled intellectuals, Iloria comes from a background where intellectual resilience was a formative experience. Holding a degree in economics, she made a conscious decision to pursue art in her mature years as a means of dialogue with the world and herself. An early fear of creative expression was transformed into a powerful artistic method, where painting became a tool for exploring inner states—from darkness to light, from striving to effortless flow.

Today, her work is a synthesis of lived experience and a philosophy of embodied presence. Through an intuitive use of colour and form, she creates spaces for silence and contemplation, which resonate with the contemporary search for resilience and meaning.

Mila Iloria actively exhibits in Finland and abroad (with over ten solo exhibitions) and is a member of key Finnish art associations. She also shares her creative experience with children and teenagers. She lives and works in Helsinki. She offers...

ART EDUCATION

2019-2020 Free Art School, Helsinki, Finland
2020-2022 Abstract Art School - Adele Sypesteyn Studio, USA
2005-2026 Multiply private tutoring & studies at the Independent Artist studios in Finland, Sweden and Italy

In addition to Artist Career, Mila holds

1999 Master Degree in Economics,
International marketing, Plekhanov Economic Academy, Moscow, Russia
2021 Best Coach Nomination for exploring personality uniqueness

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 - Making Choices, Fyyri, Kirkkonummi
2022 - Inventing, Myymälä2, Helsinki
2021 - Peaceful Joy, Unnew, Helsinki
2020 - Emotions, Neuhaus, Helsinki
2019 - July, Roasberg, Helsinki
2016 - Clarity of eternity, Roasberg, Helsinki
2015 - Summer time, Kivenlahti Galleria, Espoo
2015 - Colours of life, Galleria Sello, Espoo
2013 - Creative expression, Hvitträsk, Kirkkonummi
2012 - Spring, Galleria Iso Omena, Espoo

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 - HIIA FEST 2025, Kaapelitehdas, Helsinki
2025 - Price of Piece, Lauttasaari, Helsinki
2024 - Metamorphoses, Hermitage, Russia
2023 - Myymälä2, 20th years anniversary, Helsinki
2021 - Art Fair, Malmö, Sweden
2021 - Christmas, Russian Science and Culture Centre, Helsinki
2020 - Towards Christmas, Russian Science and Culture Centre, Helsinki
2020 - Magic power of art, Galleria Piirto, Helsinki

COLLABORATIONS
2022 - Sameising x iloria, Kruununhaka, Helsinki
2015 - Collaboration with McDonalds, Espoo
2014 - Stay yourself, partnership with ISKU, Espoo


PUBLIC SPEECHES ON ARTISTIC CREATIVITY
2019 - Creativity as a key to know oneself, Helsinki
2014 - Gymnasium Lärkan, Abi-weeks, Helsinki

PUBLICATIONS
2025 - “Why do we bully – and how can creativity help us break out of that cycle?”, ...