Sylvia Naimark b. 1955

Sylvia Naimark’s intuitive, predominantly abstract paintings exhibit a diaristic quality, evoking faint memories through fleeting figures and forms – objects reduced to spirited circles, lines, and dashes of paint. Through the subtle motifs of her works, Naimark interweaves personal and universal experiences of otherness, transition, and loss. When distinct and familiar figures occassionally appear in her work, they seem to inhabit a space that transcends rational logic, a borderland between reality and dream.

”In both the creation and appreciation of Naimark’s art, the act of seeing and unseeing is integral. It doesn't become cognitive until you see what you see, and this process of becoming is vital to the experience. It is the point where the artist and observer briefly meet. This is also where the complexities of Naimark’s work reside: transcending the boundaries of form and narrative, abstraction, and representation.”

– Jonathan Habib Engqvist

Sylvia Naimark (b. 1955, Malmö) lives and works in Stockholm. She holds a BFA from Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts and Design, Stockholm, and an MFA from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem. Her work has been exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions, most recently at Marquee Projects, New York; Berg Gallery, Stockholm; Konstnärshuset, Stockholm; Nancy Margolis Gallery, New York; Färgfabriken, Stockholm; and Galleri Ping-Pong, Malmö. Naimark is represented in the collections of Region Uppsala, Public Art Agency Sweden, Region Stockholm, Landskrona Museum, Västra Götalandsregionen, and The Swedish Association for Art (SAK), to name a few. In 2018, a monograph of her work – Sylvia Naimark: Paintings 2008–2018 – was published with the support of The Foundation Längmanska Kulturfonden in Stockholm.