Nika Belianina is an award-winning Toronto-based writer-director, camerawoman and a fine art photographer with a flare for magical realism. Her exhibition history spans over 30 curated shows and art fairs in Belgium, Canada, Peru and the USA. Among them are the Contact Festival, Abbozzo gallery and Cultural Center at the School of Fine Arts in Lima. At the 61st annual Toronto Outdoor Art Fair Nika sold 15 of her photographs over the weekend. She is a recipient of the Ontario and Canada Art Council's grants and of various photography, cinematography and film awards. She has shot projects around the world and at the artist residencies in Mexico, Peru and USA, including KHN Center for the Arts and Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts, where she later served as a juror.

Genuinely inspired and often working with nature, Belianina’s poetic photographs often represent not just the outer appearances of things, but their inner significance, through movement, creating unique emotions. She’s inspired by a sense of wonder, while always looking for new ways of self-expression. Belianina’s fine art photographs are often constructed using in-camera techniques and have a painterly feeling to them.

Nika Belianina is also a prolific filmmaker, working in both fiction and documentary realms and is a member of the Director’s Guild of Canada. She is a self-taught artist with an MA in Social Psychology.

www.nikabelianina.com // www.instagram.com/lifeasnika