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Holding Master's degree in Art from University BGPU in Ufa, she has been working as a painter since 1982. 
Nina's works explore the relationship between ancient cultures, mythologies, fantasy, metaphysic, and philosophy.
Experiments with color, composition and dimension make paintings enigmatic and paradoxical. Her works have philosophical depth. With imagination and meditation Nina uses as a student of Eastern philosophy of Zen the archetypes of the unconscious to the understanding of the universe multilateral thin. Her works have dreamlike quality, wherein objects frequently turn into one another 

 

Originally from South Urals in Russia, Nina Tokhtaman Valetova is based in New York.
 

Website:
www.valetova.info