Nadia Klionsky is an award winning painter who was born in St. Petersburg, Russia where she
began her art training at the Intermediate Art School affiliated with St. Petersburg Academy of
Fine Arts. After immigrating to the United States at the age of thirteen, she continued to pursue
her studies at The Cooper Union in New York, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and the
Philadelphia College of Art. Her father, a renowned artist, Marc Klionsky, was her first teacher
and remained her mentor until his passing in 2017.
Ms. Klionsky’s exhibition record includes gallery and museum venues in the United States and
abroad. Her paintings were featured in group exhibitions at the Steamboat Art Museum,
Colorado, Krasl Art Center Museum, Michigan and twice at the Butler Institute of American Art,
Ohio. One of her first exhibitions in New York was at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where
she was featured in a group exhibition of “Outstanding Young Artists of NYC”. Ms. Klionsky
was selected by a panel of distinguished international art critics, curators, scholars, and historians
as one of a few artists representing the United States among 35 other countries for the 1999
Biennale Internationale Del’Arte Contemporanea in Florence, Italy. Ms. Klionsky’s work has
appeared in publications, such as Architectural Digest Magazine, and New American Paintings,
where her work was featured on the cover. In 2008, Nadia’s work was exhibited at the Biennial
Exhibition of Contemporary American Realism at the Fort Wayne Museum of Art in Indiana.
Ms. Klionsky was represented by Hammer Galleries in New York for many years and later was
represented by Elizabeth Moss Galleries in Falmouth, Maine, where she had a retrospective
exhibition in 2014.
Ms. Klionsky has received numerous honors and awards, including the Alden Bryan Memorial
Medal and Award for Traditional Landscape (2012, 2018, 2021), Katlan Seascape Award (2016),
all presented by the Allied Artists of America; and the Giovanni Martino Family Award for
Realistic Landscape (2018), awarded by the Audubon Artists Organization. She is also a recipient
of the Florence & Irwin Zlowe Memorial Award for the Best Work on Canvas (2010), presented
by the National Association of Women Artists at the National Arts Club in New York City in
2010.
Ms. Klionsky was elected to become a member of the Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts,
National Association of Women Artists, the Audubon Artists Organization, Oil Painters of
America, Signature member of the American Society of Marine Artists and Allied Artists of
America, where she currently serves on the board.

ARTIST’S STATEMENT

I often find myself fascinated by Nature and the many ways in which we experience the majesty of the natural world.

I am most intrigued by those atmospheric conditions that produce fog, haze, bursts of light, and the myriad transitions in between. Beyond a realistic rendition, I see my paintings as windows onto the landscape through which I hope to invoke in the viewer the emotions and moods that inspire me, and to facilitate the viewer’s experience with Nature’s deepest mysteries.

As I travel through the great American Northeast, I am taken back to my earliest memories of the fields and untamed forests of Eastern Europe. It was among these scenes from my youth that I first experienced the bright light of winter, the fleeting warmth of long summer days, and the great in between that is the core of our sense of time and transition.

My art is an expression of the universal need to experience Nature. It is this feeling that enables us to better understand the progress of time and our brief existence among the landscapes that surround us.