NADIA LESNIAREK

I am an artist based in London and my art practice revolves around painting, drawing and collage. I investigate personal worlds through imaginary dreamscapes and intimate representations of the body. My practice explores deconstructed architectural space and in building up layers in my paintings over time, I show glimpses of its past, of its memories.

I have a background in architecture, working at Herzog & de Meuron and with Amanda Levete. I completed my masters at the RCA in 2021, and have since pursued art practice through painting and through my art-curatorial collective Threadbare. I have exhibited as a painter throughout London and the UK in both solo and group shows and with my collective am currently in residence at Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art.

Previous exhibitions and residencies:

2025 Threadbare residency at Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art (9 months)
2025 The Home, The Outhouse Gallery, London, exhibited, group show
2024 Maintenance Tools of Body and City, Camberwell Kabinett, London, solo show
2024 The 54 Art Show, Camberwell, London. Curated and exhibited
2022 The Euston Exhibition, Clerkenwell, London
2021 Covering and Uncovering, Revere the Residence, Stoke Newington, London
2021 Royal College of Art Summer Show, Hydraulic Power Station, Wapping, London
2020 The WIP Show, RCA, South Kensington, London
2020 Designing Different, the Wellcome Collection, London
2019 Intimacy and Power, Tottenham Hale Arts, London. Solo show
2017 The ARCSOC Exhibition, The Barge House, Oxo Tower, London
2017 Responses to Feminism, Churchill College, Cambridge
2016 White Clouds 02, The Blue Moon, Cambridge
2016 TedxCambridgeUniversity, Cambridge. Curated and exhibited
2016 John Hughes Arts Festival, Jesus College Cambridge
2016 Cambridge Creatives Pop-ups, Vaults, Cambridge
2015 The ARCSOC Exhibition, Truman Brewery in Brick Lane, London
2015 Changing Spaces, Cambridge
2014 Fujitsu Art Exhibition, Fujitsu Headquarters, London
2013 Embodied Shapes, Take-away Gallery, Reading. Solo show