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NADIA KLIONSKY
NADIA KLIONSKY
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 memo-
ries 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.
Award winning artist Nadia Klionsky was born in St. Petersburg, Russia. She began her art training at the Intermediate Art School affiliated with St. Petersburg Academy of Fine Arts.
After immigrating to the United States in 1974, Nadia 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, Coos Art Museum, Oregon, Krasl Art Center Museum, Michigan and for four consecutive years at the Butler Museum of American Art in Ohio. She 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.
Nadia’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 Mastcove Galleries in Kennebunkport and Elizabeth Moss Galleries in Falmouth, Maine.
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.
