Born in ‘92, Nada is a self-taught visual artist and mental health clinician whose roots and heart are from Homs, Syria. She’s a strong believer that beyond bringing beauty to the world, art is a form of language and that heals, liberates and builds community resilience.

Nada grew up in Saudi Arabia and spent many years in the UK, before settling in Alexandria, Virginia in 2020. As a self-taught artist, her style has grown and evolved over the years — starting off with just a pencil and paper from as early as 8 years old. Her love for portraits and capturing people has remained a common thread in all her work, taking on new forms as the years went on.

Her love for painting and using colorful mediums began in 2020 with her first acrylic and oil painting on canvas, and she hasn’t looked back since.

The Syrian Revolution, Palestinian & Indigenous liberation movements, Civil Rights movement, and her 9-to-5 job as a humanitarian/mental health worker have had major influences on her life and art. Her work and travel led her to see the realities of inequality, from war and colonialism to economic injustice. She has chosen a career as a mental health clinician and humanitarian practitioner where she can integrate trauma-informed visual art methodologies as a resilience-building and storytelling tool. Her work ranges from purely light and aesthetic, to a deeper visual narrative of trauma, displacement, resistance, and resilience.