Nadia Klionsky is an award winning artist 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, Coos Art Museum, Oregon, Krasl Art Center Museum, Michigan and for three consecutive years at the Butler Museum of American Art in 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.