My name is Eva De Nardi, and I’m an Danish/American artist. I’ve lived in California, NYC, and now Copenhagen, Denmark. I paint in a colorful, detailed, and dramatic style.

I mostly paint custom body portraits of women. My art aims to challenge the inherent sexualization of the female body, and instead celebrate our freedom to simply exist, as we are. I hope my work ignites a love for yourself in all your forms, and makes you feel vibrant, beautiful, and alive.

A little about my background

I grew up going to Waldorf (Rudolph Steiner) Schools in California, where a child’s creativity is nourished and celebrated. That’s where I found a passion for drawing and painting early on. I studied art at Krabbesholm Højskole and Holbæk Kunsthøjskole in Denmark, and then minored in visual arts at Fordham University in NYC.

I recently finished my master’s degree in Cognition and Communication here in Copenhagen, where I wrote my thesis on the topic of the “male gaze.” The male gaze is a feminist theory describing how women are objectified and sexualized in media by their portrayal as passive embodiments of the male fantasy. My academic work addressed how the male gaze in media socializes girls and women to internally assume the position of this symbolically male voyeur, subconsciously valuing their physical form as their most important attribute. My artistic work has aimed to depict this complex internal struggle between womanhood, the body, and the world.