NIKITA THISDAY
Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
1998
Street wave artist, architect, urban explorer, one of the creators of the graffiti magazine «Nizhegorodskaya Chertovshchina» and other experimental print publications. Currently a guest artist of the studio «Tikhaya». Participant of the young contemporary art fair «Blazar» 2023, participant of the street art festival «Mesto» 2021-2023. In 2024 a documentary film about the artist of Artarea doc studio was released - «Prince of Shadows. Nikita Etogde».

Nikita paints in the studio and on the street, inspired by the old town, wooden architecture, wildlife and the abandoned. Nikita's education as an architect allows him to work with space in a special way, playing with and complementing it. He works with artefacts found on the street in constant expeditions to cities.
The main theme - the fairytale world of shadows - grew out of experiments with fonts and the artist's childhood memories. Reproducing images seen in shadows, Nikita works through the fear of the dark and creates an alternative fairytale space with the journey of the hero of his alter ego - the Prince of Shadows.

Selected exhibitions: «Chronicle of Blooming Events» (Triumph x Tikhaya Gallery, Moscow, 2023), «Transition State» in Zapovedniye Kvartaly (Nizhny Novgorod, 2022), «SNT Ulyanovets: Return to Gardens» (Terminal A, Nizhny Novgorod, 2021).