Assaya

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Artist Biography / Artist Statement:

Assaya is an interdisciplinary artist exploring transitional states, perception, and the dissolution of form. Her practice merges philosophical inquiry with visual experimentation, examining how matter, consciousness, and energy interact. Working in a signature point-based technique developed during her MFA at RUFA in Rome, she paints with handmade horsehair brushes to produce vibrating, multilayered surfaces. Figures appear and vanish, resisting stability and evoking a sense of impermanence.

Holding a PhD in Economics, Assaya approaches art with both analytical structure and intuitive depth. Her work is less about depiction than participation — forms materialise through observation, much like quantum phenomena.

She has exhibited internationally in the UK, Germany, Italy, Monaco, Portugal, and Spain. Her recent highlights include the London Art Biennale 2025, the Edinburgh Art Fair, and coverage in FAD Magazine, Cosmopolitan, and Creativity’s UK.

List of previous exhibitions:

2025

  • London Art Biennale, VII Edition, London, UK

  • Edinburgh Art Fair, 20th Anniversary Edition, Edinburgh, UK

  • Women in Art Biennale – International Contemporary Art Exhibition, curated by ARTIO Gallery, London, UK

  • European Museum of Modern Art (MEAM), curated by ARTIO Gallery, Barcelona, Spain

  • WOMAN’S ESSENCE SHOW, MUSA International, London, UK

  • THE DARK SIDE, curated by Lee Sharrock, Boomer Gallery, London, UK

  • IDENTITY Project Seoul, Insa Art Center, Seoul, South Korea

2024

  • COP29 – Themed Exhibition, QGallery, Baku, Azerbaijan
    (Initiated with the support of the European Climate Foundation during the UN Climate Change Conference COP29)

2023

  • IL GAMBETTO DI BAKU, 8.Salon, Hamburg, Germany

  • Art Camp Shusha, Azerbaijan

2022

  • Quantum Chaos, 5B Gallery, Porto, Portugal

  • 4th Biennale de Arte de Barcelona, International Art Exhibition, Barcelona, Spain

2021

  • Interdisciplinary Dialogues, QGallery, Baku, Azerbaijan

  • ART3f, represented by PassepARTout Gallery, Montecarlo, Monaco

  • Dante Alighieri International Art Exhibition, Cultura Identità, Florence, Italy