Miisha Nash is a visual artist working at the intersection of portraiture and performance, creating work driven by vision and lived experience. Her work traces the influences that have shaped her, drawing from lineage, spirituality, folklore, magical surrealism, power dynamics, and psychology. Her practice functions as a conceptual manifestation of grief, trauma, release, and the ongoing pursuit of joy. Photography is the space where a deeper awareness of herself is cultivated — she articulates not the world as it is, but how it feels to her. 

The work illustrates her interior world and reveals an interior life charged with emotion. She bridges the past, present, and future by engaging ancestry, history, and identity, using cultural inheritance as both grounding and reference point. She transforms in each image, peeling herself back like the head of a cabbage, layer after layer - until the flower’s heart is revealed. 

She is deeply influenced by arthouse cinema — its staging, lighting, and elemental approach to illustrating the human condition. Combined with an academic foundation in History and Cultural Anthropology, this informs how she builds scenes and imagines characters and visual mythologies.

Through the role-play of archetypes, she engages personal and collective histories to reconstruct narratives of identity, inheritance, heartache, and triumph. The images echo both creation myths and intimate personal stories. Each photograph stands on its own yet also connects to a larger visual constellation — a narrative of universal human emotion told from her singular perspective. Her latest series centers healing and reclamation, with each image functioning as a stepping stone across water. Wading through resistance toward surrender, the work forms a fluid, cohesive tapestry that offers viewers intimate, visceral vignettes.