Moon World Resorts is delighted to welcome New York based, Nikolina Kovalenko, as our exclusive MOON Artist. Nikolina is a celebrated artist best known for her stunning moon and astronaut creations, immersive large-scale coral reef paintings and multidimensional portraiture. Her work explores themes of transformation, inner essence, and the delicate balance between humans and nature. Nikolina’s amazing work has been exhibited globally, including at MOMMA, L’Space Gallery, Clark Gallery, and Blumka Contemporary, collaborating with organizations such as Museum Week and UNESCO. Nikolina also collaborates with the Georgie Badiel Foundation, supporting clean water access in Burkina Faso. Her Utopian Reefsapes series highlighting vanishing marine ecosystems, was featured in Forbes Mexico, reflecting her commitment to increase environmental awareness through art.
“Art is an integral element in creating MOON’s unique and memorable guest experience. Art leans into our MOON brand identity and provides visual differentiation, evoking emotions and storytelling, connecting and transforming the guest through meaningful and memorable experiences”. Shared Sandra G. Matthews, Co-Founder and President of Moon World Resorts.
Each MOON masterplan will be a “Building of Global Significance”. With a focus on next-generation Architecture, Engineering, Design, Technology and Art. MOON will embrace Transformative Longevity + Wellbeing, Education, Hospitality, Entertainment, the Environment and of course Space Tourism + Space Training.
MOON will be the critical bridge to space, providing an authentic lunar surface and lunar base for guest exploration. MOON will offer the chance to participate, not simply spectate! MOON will be developed in North America, South America, Southwest Europe, Central Europe, East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Africa, Oceania, and the Middle East Gulf.
LOVE seeing my Tree Of Life in this stylish living room, what a perfect fit! 🙌😍🌳
Thank you so much to the collectors for giving this painting such a beautiful and loving home 🏡😊🙏
Two beautiful shows opened yesterday- Island Reverence with Taiwanese American Art Council (exhibiting 2 of my Nature inspired pieces and an Astronaut from Flowers Of The Sky series) and a portrait show at Axel Gallery (hosting 4 of my portraits inspired by mythologies around femininity and womanhood). Come see them in person ☺️🖼️
So excited for this group exhibition! Join us for the opening on May 16th (TODAY) 11-5pm, or visit anytime before June 21st.
Hop on a quick ferry from Lower Manhattan to Governors Island (house 17) and feel miles away from the city’s hustle. Breathe in island air, and engage with art while listening to the birds.
Thank you so much @taac2014 for including me 🙏
Updating my website and thinking of all the amazing places my paintings live in 🙌 I always joke that my artwork ends up in living conditions superior to my own 😆here are some of them ☝️
My Renaissance talk at @thenednomad yesterday 🐚🥂
Organized by @sublimecommunications 🙏
Thank you so much for joining, dreaming with us and inspiring others to dream ✨ This energy of change is contagious!
Something new I tried: a snake skin cast in plaster as the base for a flower oil painting.
To me, placing flowers and snakes together creates a feeling that is both beautiful and unsettling. It brings to mind two sides of femininity 🌸 soft, fragile, sensual, mysterious, and 🐍 intuitive, wise, and powerful.
Lately I have been having a lot of fun channeling my inner baroque and embracing intuitive world building, where the only thing that makes sense is the new feeling colors and shapes create when they interact and morph into each other.
“As above, so below”, oil on canvas, 54x66 inches (137x168cm), 2026
The microcosm (individual/earth) mirrors the macrocosm (universe/heaven). Spiritual, mental, and physical realms are interconnected, internal states or higher forces influencing external reality.
