LIDA SHERAFATMAND
Painter, Writer
Evolution of Flower Painting — Florescencism: Reimagining Avant-Garde Art Through Nature
Redefining a New Avant-Garde for 21st century needs!
For 27 years, Lida’s art has been a quiet revolution—challenging the dominance of shock, aggression, and spectacle in contemporary art. While the mainstream art world fixates on provocation and trauma-driven narratives, her work offers a radical alternative: art that heals, calms, and connects us to our deepest humanity, the nature, and life around us.
Rooted in the new fields of knowledge, neurosaesthetics, energy psychology, and energy medicine, as well as social science, her paintings evoke the inner beauty that has been suppressed in an era of constant noise and alienation. Research shows that the human nervous system craves connection to feel calm. Her art is not an escape—it is an intervention. A bold defiance against the culture of dominance, urgency, and fragmentation.
Visions started coming to her the tender age of 3 years old, during war-time, when her calling as a painter was first awakened.
Over the years, Lida’s work has been exhibited internationally, written about across multiple platforms. Her first manifesto, Humanitarian Art Manifesto (2004), was signed by artists from 20 countries declared back at that time, that we need to shift from ‘art for art sake’ to ‘art for people’s sake’. That manifesto is now archived in the Anthology of Feminist Art Manifestos by katy Deepwell, at the Institute for Contemporary Art in London. She has authored four books since then, spanning academic research, poetry, and education.
Now, as the world reaches a breaking point of overstimulation and disconnection, her work stands as a new paradigm: Art that does not fight for attention—but instead creates the space to truly see, feel, and be.
Florescencism, derived from 'florescence'—to flower—is an umbrella term introduced in a post-COVID manifesto to define a new wave of art rooted in beauty, connection, wisdom, and the transformative power of human nature. (Read the Manifesto of Florescencism to explore the vision further.)
A trauma economy is systems that profit from the commodification of fear, suffering, and unresolved pain, often perpetuating cycles of distress rather than healing. Art created and supported from such mindset is driven by spectacle, shock value over substance, and escaping emotional depth.
The mainstream institutions, still entrenched in such 'trauma economy,' have yet to catch up with Lida’s work, which is ahead of the curve. Her art represents the future—a necessary shift toward an art world that prioritizes restoration, depth, and genuine human connection.
She continues to exhibit internationally, building a movement that redefines what it means to be bold in art today.
PAST EXHIBITIONS:
2024 Collective exhibition (Silkroad Artists Rendez-vous) at New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts, Wellingten, New Zeland
2024 Collective exhibition (Silkroad Artists Rendez-vous) at New Zealand International Art Space Museum, Auckland, New Zealand
2024 Solo exhibition, on the occasion of 8th March International Women's Day, Europe House, Valletta, Malta – opening
by the president of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola
2023 Solo exhibition, at the International Poetry Festival, Struga, North Macedonia
2022 Solo exhibition, Flower Art Museum, Aalsmeer, The Netherlands
2019 Solo exhibition at Palazzo Zenobio, Concomitent exhibition of Pavilion of Bangladesh, 58th Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
2019 Exhibition at Tokyo International Art Fair, Tokyo, Japan
2019 Collective exhibition Shibuya Station, Tokyo, Japan
2018 Solo exhibition at CAM Museum of Contemporary Art, Naples, Italy
2018 Collection exhibition at Nigde National Museum, Nigde, Turkey
2017 Solo exhibition at the Palace of the President, Malta (during Malta’s presidency of the Council of the European Union)
2016 Exhibition at Tokyo International Art Fair, Omotesando Hills Main Building, Tokyo, Japan
2016 Solo exhibition at the China Cultural Centre, Malta
2016 Exhibition with the Chinese artist Li Ning at China China Cultural Centre, Malta
2016 Collective exhibition, Women’s Art World, Museum of Marrakech, Morocco
2015 Art Monaco, Monte Carlo, Monaco
2014 Solo exhibition at Atrium Galley, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK
2013 Solo exhibition at Roerich Museum, St Petersburg, Russia
2012 Solo exhibition, Ministry of Education, Valletta, Malta
2012 Collective exhibition, SALON SAM 2012, Galerie 60, Giverny, France
2012 Solo exhibition, Manuel Theatre (the National Theatre), Valletta, Malta
2011 Collective exhibition, Le Cabinet d'Expertise Arts Anciens, Geneva, Switzerland
2011 Collective exhibition, Cultural Centre, Bogota, Columbia
2011 Collective exhibition, Château de Serans, Ecouché, France
2011 Collective exhibition,"Freedom", Art Galerie, Terande, Kosovo
2010 Collective exhibition, Galerie Artitude, Paris, France
2010 Salon "Art de vivre à la française", Moscow, Russia
2010 Collective exhibition, Art en Capital, Grand Palais des Beaux Arts, Paris, France
2010 Collective exhibition at The Cité du Temps, Geneva, Switzerland
2010 Collective exhibition at Centro del Conocimento, Posados, Argentina
2010 Collective exhibition at Espace Pierre Cardin, Paris, France
2010 Exhibition painting during the Global Conference of Int. Peace Research Association, University of Sydney, Australia
2010 Collective painting exhibition at Schilliger Gardens, Geneva, Switzerland
2010 Collective painting exhibition at Palais des Nations, United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland
2010 Painting exhibition-auction, by Stal-expert, Espace de Nesle , Paris (6th district), France
2009 Painting Exhibition-auction, by Stal-Expert, Drouot, Paris, France
2009 Salon International d'Art, Lausanne, Switzerland
2009 Exhibition at Société Générale Banque, Paris (15ème), France
2009 Salon Bijorhca's Éclat de Mode, Paris, France
2007 Painting exhibition, on the occasion of the second Launching of Humanitarian Art Manifesto, World Council of Churches, United
Nations, Geneva, Switzerland
2005 Solo painting exhibition for Amnesty International, University of Malta, Malta
2005 Solo painting exhibition, Gallery Sufflot du Centre Pantheon, Pantheon-Sorbonne, Paris, France
2005 Painting exhibition for the conference "The Rights of the Child", Ministry of Education Malta in collaboration with the Council of
Europe, Malta
2004 Solo painting exhibition "For a Culture of Peace", for UNESCO Malta
2003 Painting exhibition for the conference 'state of children in war in situation', Brussels, Belgium
2003 Painting exhibition at St. James Cavalier Gallery, "life of a refugee", Malta
2003 Collective exhibition, "Internationalism and Peace" for the World Congress of Junior Chamber International, Las Vegas, U.S.A
2002 Solo exhibition of paintings at the International Telecommunication Union, "Human Rights and Peace", Palaise des Nations, Geneva,
Switzerland
2002 Collective painting exhibition "Internationalism and Peace", by European artists, Istanbul, Turkey
2001 Collective painting exhibition at St. James Cavaliere Art Gallery, Valletta, Malta
1997 Malta Participation in the Malta International Art Biennale (80 participating countries)
ACCOLADES and AWARDS:
2024 "Harmony for Humanity: The Global Consciousness Art Prize" , by Contemporary Art Collectors
2024 Selected artist for Liangzhou Forum, International Artist Residency and Cultural Forum, Hangzhou, China
2020 Selected artist for peace - Stamp in Liechtenstein
2019 Selected artist for peace - Stamp for commemorative envelopes in China
2019 Selected as international jury member, for Van Gogh Art Competition -in collaboration with Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
(The Netherlands), and Shanghai (China)
2018 Fellowship ‘Artist in Residence’- Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg, Institute for Advanced Study, Germany
2017 Global Art Award Finalist – in Innovative Art Category – Dubai, UAE (International Jury)
2017 Global Art Award Finalist – Global Art Awards for the Visual Arts, Dubai, UAE (International Jury)
2017 Milan International Art Prize –endorsed by Italian art critic Vittorio Sgarbi, Milan, Italy
2017 Outstanding Artist Award, by Asia Arts Fund, New York, U.S.A.
2016 International Prize of Women’s Art World, Museum of Marrakech, Morocco
2015 International Prize Michelangelo, Rome, Italy
2015 International Art Award David of Bernini 2015, International Academy of Italia in Arte nel Mondo, Lecce, Italy
2015 International Prize of Marco Polo, Art Ambassador, Venice, Italy
2015 Selected Artist for official artistic visit to China, China Cultural Centre, Malta- China Ministry of Culture government grant
2011 Selected as "Muse of Art Harmony", by International Global Harmony Association, St Petersburg, Russia
2011 3rd Prize, International Art Colony, Kosovo
2009 "Artist for Peace", Association of World Citizens (AWC), United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland
2009 Decorative sculpture used on 1st Prize table, of Les Championnat des Arts de la Table, Paris, France
2005 Awarded "Love Ambassador", The Love Foundation, Florida, USA
2005 Awarded "Ambassador for Peace", International Faith and Inter-religious Organization, Geneva, Switzerland