Lya Nagado

b 1972 Sao Paulo, Brazil. Lives and works in London, UK.

ARTIST STATEMENT

Nagado’s approach to painting is nothing short of sheer craftsmanship. Often working on several paintings at once, Nagado builds them up in a series of layers that create an illusion of depth of the picture plane, giving the viewer the impression of looking into the paintings rather than at them.

Rendered in seductive, dreamy liquid colours, a suspended sense of melancholy can be sensed throughout Nagado’s works. In depicting her inner world, the artist reflects on the theme of her own fluctuating identity through an outsider’s prism.

Through the agency of playfully combining heritage and culture, Nagado is continually reinventing her personal narrative of the contemporary, presenting us with fragments of stories that are somewhat in dissonance with their original context. The questions that arise from her work are consequently about how ideas can survive, fade or transform.

  • Website
  • www.lyanagado.com
  • Instagram
  • @lyanagado

Vita

  • Education 
  • 2009 The Preparation of Traditional Grounds - Prince’s School of Traditional Arts - London - UK
  • 2009 Oil Painting Materials and Techniques - Prince’s School of Traditional Arts - London - UK
  • 2010 The Flemish Technique - Prince’s School of Traditional Arts - London - UK
  • 2011 MA Fine Arts with Distinction - City & Guilds of London Art School - London - UK
  • 2015 Geometry and the Order of the Nature - Prince’s School of Traditional Arts - London - UK
  • Solo Exhibitions
  • 2017 
  • Haphazard - Oslo Kaffe Artspace - Berlin - DE
  • Children’s Portraits - Stroud Green Library - London - UK
  • 2012 
  • Still Life - ICN Gallery - London - UK
  • Group Exhibitions
  • 2018 
  • 26 Contemporary Artists by Enter Art Foundation - Epicentre Stockholm - Stockholm - SE
  • 2017 
  • Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year Winner’s Exhibition - Wallace Collection - London - UK
  • 21st National Open Art Competition Winners’ Show - Chichester - UK
  • 221st National Open Art Competition Show - London - UK
  • 2016 
  • Art on a Postcard for Hepatitis C Trust - Whitfield Fine Art - London - UK
  • 20th National Open Art Competition Show - London - UK
  • 2012 
  • From Edo to Now - Julian Hartnell Gallery - London - UK
  • 2011 
  • City and Guilds Art School Masters Show - London - UK
  • MA & Other Post Graduates - Atkinson Gallery - Somerset - UK
  • The 125th New English Art Club Open Exhibition - The Mall Galleries - London - UK
  • Barcelona Showcase at Casa Batlló - Barcelona - ES
  • 2009 
  • Shift Magazine show at Narita Airport - Chiba - JP
  • Awards & Grants
  • 2017 
  • Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year - UK
  • 21st National Open Art Competition Miniature Category Winner
  • 2009 
  • Shift Magazine Calendar Cover Illustration Prize Winner, Japan
  • Residencies
  • 2017 Art residency at the Stroud Green and Haringey Library, London
  • Collections
  • Mollie Dent-Brocklehurst and Duncan Ward
  • Maryam Vahidi and Jonas Kamprad
  • Hugh Monk
  • Hisami Omori
  • Museu de les Arts Decoratives de Barcelona - ES

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