Nadiia Rom

Nadiia Rom is a Ukrainian artist based in London.
She graduated from the Poltava National Polytechnic University in Ukraine, where she was studying architecture. She worked as an architect and an interior designer in Ukraine and Europe.
In 2016 she turns to painting and now exhibits in Europe and UK.
Nadiia came to London in 2023 and she works in oils and pastels, creating figurative and abstract compositions. She is a recipient of several awards.

What my art is about:
I am a Ukrainian painter based in London. My practice explores the relationship between memory, place and the ways people preserve a sense of self while adapting to change.
Rather than treating home as a fixed location, I am interested in the elements that make it portable. I ask what people carry with them when they can no longer carry the place itself. Memories, everyday rituals, domestic gestures, familiar objects and ways of inhabiting space become invisible structures through which identity survives displacement and new places gradually become home.
Working primarily in oil and dry pastel, I build my paintings through careful observation of quiet details that often go unnoticed: an unmade bed, shifting light, traces of use, folded fabric, an empty interior o...

 1989-93 years - art school in Poltava, Ukraine
 1998-2004 years - Poltava National University named after Yuri Kondratyuk. Architecture faculty. Specialty "Design of Architectural Environment", Ukraine

Awards:
- 2026. Jackson's Art Prize, Longlisted artist (top 6% of 16,280 entries)
- 2025. The VAA Artist of the Year 2025 Award: finalist in Best Professional & Established Artist category
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Personal exhibitions:
- 2026. Between two worlds (Rochester, UK)
- 2018. Rolling in the deep (Kyiv, Ukraine)
- 2017. Nespokiy (Kyiv, Ukraine)

Art Fairs:
- 2026. London Art Fair (Business Design Centre, London, UK)
- 2026. Rochester Art Fair (Rochester, UK)

Projects:
- 2025. SILENCE. Identity in the process of change (Eye Sea Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine)

Exhibitions:
- 2026. Bath Society of Artists 121th Open Exhibition (Victoria Art Gallery, Bath, UK)
- 2026. OMMFA/ London Design Festival 2026 (The Old Waiting Room
Peckham Rye Station, London, UK)
- 2026. FLUX exhibition 2026 (Bomb Factory Art Foundation, London, UK)
- 2026. Pensychnant Conservation Centre Open Art Exhibition 2026 (Pensychnant Conservation Centre, UK)
- 2026. My World, My View/ Fringe Arts Bath (Newark Works, Bath, UK)
- 2026. Empowerher’26 (Casildart Gallery, London, UK)
- 2026. Embroired Code (Medwey, UK)
- 2025. Small matters (The Green Door Gallery, Brussels, EU)
- 2025. Sence of home. (Heatherleys School of Fine Art, London, UK)
- 2025. Focus art fair 2025 (Saatchi ...