Yasmina Alexandra Nysten was born in Helsinki Finland in 1988 and attended ALBA (Academie Libanaise des Beaux-arts) in Beirut Lebanon, her mother’s native country, receiving a BFA in Visual Arts in 2009 and an MFA in Digital Arts, 3D Animation from Pratt Institute New York City in 2013. She still resides in New York presently, working as a fulltime artist since her graduation. During this time, Yasmina has also periodically led projects such as “Cultural Narratives”, a travelling collection of 20x20cm artworks collected from artists residing in the MENA region. The collection was recently exhibited at CAP Kuwait and Art Dubai, at AlSerkal Avenue. She made her start exhibiting in Beirut in shows such as “Shou tabkha ya mara” (What’s cooking woman?) at Art Lounge, a show comprising of all female artists, under the curatorial of Xanadu Art, “Nafas Beirut” (the breath of Beirut), the 2006 postwar collective exhibition at Espace SD, an event that brought the local art community back to life and Ayyam gallery Dubai’s Young Collectors Auctions. Her 2009 solo show “The Seven Minute Special” at Kleio Projects New York comprised of large format works on paper. Depicting individuals in a contorted figurative style, her work still remains faithful to the asymmetrical experiment conducted on the human form. Since, Yasmina has attempted to adapt this stylistic language into a theoretical axiom, so that the thought may experience the same anamorphic properties as her jagged line. Her latest solo show "Live @ The Crying Room" that took place at Tornado Things gallery in Brooklyn NY in 2019 comprised of large format paintings and works on paper that remained faithful to this principle. Her work has been collected by private collectors in US, Lebanon, the UAE. She is currently working on a new body of works that she foresees exhibiting in the begining of 2021.