Natasha Nord

Natasha Nord was born in a large industrial city Magnitogorsk, USSR. Developing a strong passion for the arts, she took great interest in music, photography and drawing at a young age, playing piano by the age of seven and winning her city’s photography awards by the age of ten.
Natasha’s school graduation coincided with the chaos of the Soviet State’s collapse and despite her artistic nature, she applied to the Moscow State University to pursue economics. After having her first child, with her husbands support, Natasha gave up banking and solely devoted herself to a personal journey as an artist focusing primarily on photographic practice. One of her exhibited works during that period was a series of photographs of an abandoned building in Baku, Azerbaijan, called “Within the time space”, exploring the accuracy of human memory and judgment. The series was widely exhibited worldwide including several state museums in Saint Petersburg and galleries in London and Miami.
After moving to London in 2007 Natasha studied painting at the Heatherley School of Fine Art and Florence Academy of Art. Since then, photography and painting go hand in hand for her, with one complimenting the other. She uses her photographs and a v...

2015-2017 MA in History of Art and Photography at Birkbeck University of London.
2014-2015 Graduate Certificate in History of Art at Birkbeck University of London
2014 Angel Academy of Art, Florence
2011-2013 Heatherley School of Fine Art, London
2004 -2006 assistance to an art and fashion photographer, Moscow
1991-1996 Moscow State University

Selected group and solo shows:

Journeys (Moscow Photobiennale, 2006), CuboChina (E.K. Buro, Moscow 2007), Modus-R (Art Basel Miami, 2007), Second Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art 2008, Moscow Fine Art Fair, Disconnection (Moscow International Photo Festival, 2009), Me at the Museum (Moscow Museum of Modern Art, 2009), Within the Time Space (The State Russian Centre of Photography, Saint-Petersburg, 2008), Baku (MDG Fine Art, London, 2009), Reimagining October (Calvert 22, London, 2009), The London Group Open 2017, RBSA Open all Media show 2019, RBSA Prize exhibition 2019, The Society of Women Artist 158th Exhibition 2019

Works are in private and public collections

Lives and works in London