Raisa Nosova is an American artist, who received her MFA degree in 2021 from New York University, where she has been an adjunct painting professor.
Raisa has been exploring the topics of nostalgia, interruption and destruction in her work. Although known as a painter, Raisa's recent experience of becoming a mother has pushed her to dive off into new disciplines such as glass sculpture and performance art. In her practice she dissects, peels, slices, unveils and reorganizes extreme experiences to help process the impacts.
Raisa's murals could be found in Berlin, Milan, New York City, Hoboken and Jersey City, NJ.
Nosova has completed an Artist Residency at the Berlin Art Institute and at ESKFF in Jersey City, NJ. She has been the highlight artist for the Montclair Art Museum, a guest speaker on Create! Magazine Podcast, and at the Fashion Institute of Technology.

"My work opens a platform for discussion on the topics of resilience, trauma and cultural displacement. I seek to bring awareness to the emotional baggage and the struggle that survivors have to conceal in daily life by exploring psychological connection to daily life environments. My large-scale oil paintings employ portraits of individuals behind masks, elements of wreckage and fragments of nostalgic interiors creating an intersection between reality and idealization, between opportunities and limitations, between grand and mundane . Somehow, presence and absence could exist separately and together in parallel. Life experiences such as separation from family and home as a child, war, as well as my becoming a mother during the Covid-19 pandemic have created layers of fog over traumatic memories. In my studio practice I dissect, peel, slice, unveil and reorganize extreme experiences to make sense of the fragmented and the destroyed in search of a feeling of belonging."