About Kamila

Kamila Zmrzla is a Brooklyn-based self taught artist whose work explores themes of femininity, motherhood, sexuality and the natural world. Kamila employs a variety of materials, including oil and acrylic paint, ink, watercolor, wire, textiles and collected objects.

Kamila studied at Hunter College but is primarily self-taught through a lifetime of creative immersion. Her strongest influences are rooted in her upbringing in the former Czechoslovakia, where folklore, politics, traditional costume and her grandfather’s botanical paintings shaped her imagination from an early age. She favors vivid colors, undulating forms and repeating patterns. Her lush compositions evoke nature, fertility and the realm between dreams and reality.

“I convey emotions in my paintings through pattern and color. My compositions are intuitive, shifting between figurative and abstract, the forms both recognizable and mysterious. Through images of nature and human anatomy, I explore complex themes of femininity and motherhood, inviting the viewer into a compelling story that is open to personal interpretation”