NONNA PIDVALNA
NONNA PIDVALNA
is an American artist of Ukrainian origin who has lived and worked in New York since 2011.
Nonna Pidvalna is an American artist of Ukrainian origin who has lived and worked in New York since 2011.
In her practice, she combines elements of Ukrainian folk tradition with a contemporary visual language. Having grown up in a cultural environment where ornament and handcraft were integral to everyday visual experience, she approaches folk art not as a decorative form but as a resilient system of signs and rhythms.
Her experience of emigration, life in New York, and immersion in a multilingual cultural environment have shaped Pidvalna’s sensitivity to space, structure, and visual discipline. Her artistic method developed through both independent studio practice and formal training in the workshops of Alexander Kedrin and Oxana Sanson, as well as through international programs, including the International Samchykivka Painting School of Olha Mashevska and Art Communication Online School by Julia Sysalova/Institute of Mediterranean Culture.
Since 2025, Samchykivka folk painting has become a central element of her practice, reinterpreted as a language of memory and inner balance. In her work, ornamental structures function as visual principles of stability and meditative focus ... read more
In her practice, she combines elements of Ukrainian folk tradition with a contemporary visual language. Having grown up in a cultural environment where ornament and handcraft were integral to everyday visual experience, she approaches folk art not as a decorative form but as a resilient system of signs and rhythms.
Her experience of emigration, life in New York, and immersion in a multilingual cultural environment have shaped Pidvalna’s sensitivity to space, structure, and visual discipline. Her artistic method developed through both independent studio practice and formal training in the workshops of Alexander Kedrin and Oxana Sanson, as well as through international programs, including the International Samchykivka Painting School of Olha Mashevska and Art Communication Online School by Julia Sysalova/Institute of Mediterranean Culture.
Since 2025, Samchykivka folk painting has become a central element of her practice, reinterpreted as a language of memory and inner balance. In her work, ornamental structures function as visual principles of stability and meditative focus ... read more
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Nonna Pidvalna is an American artist of Ukrainian origin who has lived and worked in New York since 2011.
In her practice, she combines elements of Ukrainian folk tradition with a contemporary visual language. Having grown up in a cultural environment where ornament and handcraft were integral to everyday visual experience, she approaches folk art not as a decorative form but as a resilient system of signs and rhythms.
Her experience of emigration, life in New York, and immersion in a multilingual cultural environment have shaped Pidvalna’s sensitivity to space, structure, and visual discipline. Her artistic method developed through both independent studio practice and formal training in the workshops of Alexander Kedrin and Oxana Sanson, as well as through international programs, including the International Samchykivka Painting School of Olha Mashevska and Art Communication Online School by Julia Sysalova/Institute of Mediterranean Culture.
Since 2025, Samchykivka folk painting has become a central element of her practice, reinterpreted as a language of memory and inner balance. In her work, ornamental structures function as visual principles of stability and meditative focus.
Between 2018 and 2026, Nonna Pidvalna actively participated in exhibitions in New York, New Jersey, Long Island, and California and became a member of several art communities, including the South Bay Art Association, Old Town Arts Guild, and Wurtsboro Art Alliance Gallery.
Her works are held in private collections in the United States and Europe.
Nonna Pidvalna is an American artist of Ukrainian origin who has lived and worked in New York since 2011.
In her practice, she combines elements of Ukrainian folk tradition with a contemporary visual language. Having grown up in a cultural environment where ornament and handcraft were integral to everyday visual experience, she approaches folk art not as a decorative form but as a resilient system of signs and rhythms.
Her experience of emigration, life in New York, and immersion in a multilingual cultural environment have shaped Pidvalna’s sensitivity to space, structure, and visual discipline. Her artistic method developed through both independent studio practice and formal training in the workshops of Alexander Kedrin and Oxana Sanson, as well as through international programs, including the International Samchykivka Painting School of Olha Mashevska and Art Communication Online School by Julia Sysalova/Institute of Mediterranean Culture.
Since 2025, Samchykivka folk painting has become a central element of her practice, reinterpreted as a language of memory and inner balance. In her work, ornamental structures function as visual principles of stability and meditative focus.
Between 2018 and 2026, Nonna Pidvalna actively participated in exhibitions in New York, New Jersey, Long Island, and California and became a member of several art communities, including the South Bay Art Association, Old Town Arts Guild, and Wurtsboro Art Alliance Gallery.
Her works are held in private collections in the United States and Europe.
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