Lilian Shtereva, born and raised in Haskovo, Bulgaria is a New York City based artist. Her paintings exhibit traces of the earth, vegetation, storms and winds to evoke the impermanence of nature. 

The artist’s tools include bone and rabbit-skin glue, poppy seed oil, natural hand-made pigments, chalk, marble, botanical matter, organic dyes, and water. Lilian received the Define American Artist Fellowship (2019), and the Soze Foundation Artist+Activist Grant (2020).