About Nadia

Born in Iowa, they have always viewed their surroundings through the lens of creating art – music, theatre, and the visual arts. They met their now-spouse Bruce, in the sweaty hormone-hole of the Music Man’s pit orchestra. Later, they attended the University of Iowa and Iowa State University, where Nadia earned their BA in cultural anthropology, minoring in art history.

After graduation, Nadia moved to Arizona, where she worked gigs with various levels of underpayment, understimulation, or moral ickiness. They took the risk to leave their day job and pursue art full-time in 2014. 

Over the years, Nadia has created several cohesive series and fully-imagined bodies of work, exploring the diversity of erotic experience, human connection, and personal identity.  

Their studio is a haphazard mess of ADHD projects, piles, and creative rabbit holes. They love to create today’s art from yesterday’s junk; they love to create tomorrow’s art from today’s mess. They happily make art from old materials – scraps of wood, old canvases, old printer ink and dry markers… you understand. Partly, it’s the puzzle to solve, the nut to crack. Partly, it’s the economic realities of this Xennial artist. Partly, it’s because they want to hurt the environment as little as possible, while still also having the ego of an artist who wants their work to last. 

Nadia travels widely to share their work and present workshops about selfies, drawing, and art for the “I can’t even draw a stick figure” folks. Their art has been exhibited internationally, including the Seattle Erotic Art Festival, Twisted Windows, London Erotic Art Show, and importantly, at home in Phoenix, at the Alwun House. When they’re not traveling, Nadia can happily be found baking like a lizard in their amateur garden, playing Dungeons and Dragons with their party of goofballs, or kicking cardboard boxes around to entertain their four disrespectful dogs.