Teodora Nitsolova (b. Bulgaria) lives and works in London, UK.
Teodora's multidisciplinary practice is rooted in painting as an activating force, a way of thinking through material, process, and visual language. Working across painting, drawing, sculpture, assemblage, and bricolage, she explores how artistic practice can create belonging through evolving relationships of making and through encounters with image-ancestors across time.
Derived from her female diasporic experience, she considers the bodily and spatial relationships between and within the artist, their artworks, and the spaces they inhabit. Working with unstretched calico, wood, paper, hand-forged metal, and reactivated discarded materials, Teodora attempts a non-linear, imagined gathering of histories, symbols, and embodied knowledge through her work.
Recent awards include the William Coldstream Memorial Prize (Director’s Choice), UCL Art Museum (2025); the Liquitex Prize for outstanding work in painting (2025); and the Sarabande Foundation Emerging Artist Award (2025).
She completed her MFA in Painting (Distinction) at the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, London (2023–2025), and previously earned a BA (Hons) Painting / Stage Design at New Bulgarian University, Sofia (2012–2016).