Nathalia Edenmont

{{Short description|Swedish-Ukrainian photo-based artist}}

Nathalia Edenmont, née Nathalie Nicole Edenmont, (born 7 February 1970 in Yalta, Soviet Union) is a Swedish-Ukrainian photo-based artist who moved to Sweden and Stockholm in 1991.{{cite web|url=http://www.artnet.com/Artists/ArtistHomePage.aspx?artist_id=424171205&page_tab=Bio_and_links|title=Nathalia Edenmont Biography – Nathalia Edenmont on artnet|publisher=|accessdate=4 September 2015}} Edenmont studied art, music and ballet at an art school for children in Yalta. Both her parents died while she was a teenager, but she continued to study in a Kyiv state school for artists and also studied in Simferopol. She moved to Stockholm in 1991, and studied graphic design at Forsbergs skola. While Edenmont paints portraits of people in a style reminiscent of classical paintings, she is better known for her use of dead animals and animal parts in her photographs.{{cite news|url=http://sydsvenskan.se/samtidigt/article106976.ece|title=Konst av kaniner. "Som mat för själen."|work=Sydsvenskan|accessdate=4 September 2015|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080928203343/http://sydsvenskan.se/samtidigt/article106976.ece|archivedate=28 September 2008}}{{cite web|url=http://www.svd.se/kultur/fjarils-konst-polisanmald_7475496.svd|title=Fjärils-konst polisanmäld|author=Spektra|work=Svenska Dagbladet|accessdate=4 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140315030811/http://www.svd.se/kultur/fjarils-konst-polisanmald_7475496.svd|archive-date=15 March 2014|url-status=live}} She has had exhibitions in London, New York, Berlin and Moscow.

Edenmont presented an episode of the Sveriges Radio show Sommar i P1 on 23 June 2014.{{cite AV media|url=http://sverigesradio.se/sida/avsnitt/386826?programid=2071|title=Nathalia Edenmont|author=Sveriges Radio|publisher=Sveriges Radio|accessdate=4 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150513022810/http://sverigesradio.se/sida/avsnitt/386826?programid=2071|archive-date=13 May 2015|url-status=live}}