Artist Bio
Anastasiya “Nastia” Craig is a Ukrainian-born visual artist whose practice centers on abstract painting and mixed media collage, transforming layers of painted fragments into dynamic compositions that explore the balance between chaos and order. Her process blends intuitive expression with analytical structure, often reflecting themes of identity, transformation, and discovery shaped by her immigrant journey. While her background in interior design informs her sensitivity to space and composition, her artwork has been featured in solo and group exhibitions at venues including Overture Center for the Arts, Promega Corporation, Arts + Literature Laboratory, and the Miller Art Museum. Her creative achievements have been highlighted in regional publications, and within the Madison community she is also recognized for her interior design contributions—as owner of Pink House Designs, LLC—to restaurants such as Sushi RED, Jacknife, and Forage Kitchen (Middleton). Craig’s artworks are held in private and corporate collections across the United States, resonating with audiences drawn to their visual energy and layered meaning.
Curriculum Vitae
EDUCATION
1992–2002 – Instructed Art Lessons, Odessa, Ukraine
1998–2000 – Cazenovia College, Cazenovia, NY
A.A.S. in Interior Design
2000–2002 – New York Institute of Technology, Old Westbury, NY
B.F.A. in Interior Design, cum laude
EXHIBITIONS
Solo Exhibitions
2024 – A Simple Thought, Arts + Literature Laboratory, Madison, WI
2020 – 2020 Lemonade, Groovy Woods Studios, Madison, WI
Group Exhibitions
2025 – Collect Them All, Jen Tough Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2025 – Women's Work Exhibition, Giant Jones Brewing Co., Madison, WI
2025 – MMOCA Spring Gallery Night, American Feral Gallery | 100 State ,Madison, WI
2025 – Bridge Between Abstract and Reality, Overt Space Gallery, Stoughton, WI
2025 – Wisconsin Visual Artists, UW Hospital Exhibition, Madison, WI
2025 – Wisconsin Visual Artists, Pyle Center Exhibition, Madison, WI
2025 – 13th Annual Competition, Bridgeport Art Center, Chicago, IL
2025 – MMOCA Spring Gallery Night, American Feral Gallery, Madison, WI
2024 – Colorburst, Overt Space Gallery, Stoughton, WI
2024 – 49th Juried Annual Exhibition, Miller Art Museum, Sturgeon Bay, WI
2024 – Beyond a Theme, Nadiana Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
2024 – Color, Carnelian Art Gallery, Madison, WI
2024 – Summer Galleries Exhibition, Overture Center, Madison, WI
2024 – Outside the Box, VAR Small Works Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
2024 – Super Fresh, Jen Tough Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2023 – Winter Gallery Exhibition, MARN, Milwaukee, WI
2023 – Mingles and Masterpieces, MMoCA Fall Gallery Night, 100 State, Madison, WI
2023 – Agora Art Fair, Fitchburg, WI
2023 – Art in the Park, Lake Geneva, WI
2023 – ArtScience of Innovation: Art Show and Symposium, Promega Corporation, Fitchburg, WI
2023 – The Art, Sips, and Sounds, The Downtowners Event, AC Marriott, Madison, WI
2022 – Winter Art Show, Local Motive, Madison, WI
2022 – Miami 3.0, Artbox.Projects Digital Art Display, Miami, FL
2022 – We Stand with Ukraine, Overt Space Gallery, Stoughton, WI
2022 – 47th Juried Annual Exhibition, Miller Art Museum, Sturgeon Bay, WI
2022 – The Gardens of the Meta-Kingdom, Digital Art Display, Paris, France
2022 – MMOCA Fall Gallery Night, 100 State | Monroe St. Dental, Madison, WI
REPRESENTATION
Woodwalk Gallery, Egg Harbor, WI
Selected works in the permanent collection of Carnelian Art Gallery, Madison, WI
AWARDS
2023 – Award of Merit, Art in the Park, Lake Geneva, WI
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Member, Wisconsin Visual Artists (WVA)
Few Words From The Artist:
For as long as I remember, creating art has been a major part of my existence. It is a process that grows and evolves with me, posing new ways to express feelings, explore ideas and experiment with techniques. To me, the most special part of this process is finding the moment when the art piece becomes more than just a visual composition but engages the viewers in discovering a new meaning that they can interpret for themselves.
Few words about current work:
My mixed media collage approach is a multiple step process involving painting and drawing on polyester and other types of film that is then cut, arranged and adhered to a substrate and coated with a finishing medium. This process is ever-evolving and embraces experimentation and incorporation of various techniques. The development of the collage composition is mostly intuitive and non-premeditative on one hand, but at the same time is reflective of the overall state of my mind at the time of creation and is often influences by external events.