Gabriella Kardos is an artist and art historian. In 1976 she escaped communism with her family, fleeing Ceausescu’s regime in Romania and emigrating to Montreal, Canada in search of freedom. Here she studied Fine Arts at Dawson College and Art History at Concordia University. Kardos taught Art Theory in the Painting and Drawing Department of Concordia University and Painting in the MA course of Vermont College of Norwich University, USA. She holds an MA from Central St Martins, London and has exhibited at the Czech Museum of Fine Arts, Prague, Anglia Polytechnic University in Ipswich, UK, ROSL, Victoria & Albert Museum, and WCPF in London. She lives in London where she is pursuing her artistic practice in painting and etching.