Nahid
Kaka
Nahid Kaka is a painter based in Iran, working in vibrant color and unrestrained line to translate emotion onto canvas often before she has the words for it herself.
A life shaped
by color
Born in 1996 in Yazd, Iran, Nahid found in painting a language for feelings she couldn't otherwise explain — and she has been speaking it ever since.
"I, Nahid Kaka, have had no attachment to anything other than painting for years. Why? I do not know, specially in this day and age when it seems that every thing that should have been done, has already happened in painting. But I, who was born on this plateau, born in Yazd and living in Tehran these days, see myself at the beginning of painting's path. Nature and all that it includes call me to paint . Painting has possesed me and i am in chain"
She studied painting formally at Yazd University, graduating in 2019 with a Bachelor's degree in Painting — a foundation she has built on ever since, through solo and group exhibitions across Iran, Spain, France, and the United States.
When I paint outside, I stop overthinking and just become part of what I'm creating.
Much of her work begins outdoors. Painting in nature means giving up control — the light shifts, the moment won't hold still — and it's in that surrender, she says, that her truest paintings appear.