Nayla Romanos Iliya is a Lebanese architect and artist whose formative years in a war-torn country, combined with a cross-cultural life in Paris, Hong Kong, Dubai, London, and Beirut, have profoundly shaped her creative vision. She trained and worked in architecture, renovation, and interior design, while also exploring design and feng shui—developing a nuanced sensibility for space, form, and balance. Since 2011, she has dedicated herself to sculpture, which has become the defining focus of her artistic practice.

Drawing on her architectural background, Romanos Iliya works across scales and disciplines, from monumental public art installations to intimate series. While her practice is rooted in Lebanon’s long history, its civil war, and its ongoing social and economic crises, it resonates far beyond its geographical context, engaging broader questions of identity, memory, displacement, and socio-political tension. Through sculpture and material exploration, she merges critical subject matter with a singular aesthetic language that is both poetic and powerful.

Her sculptures are held in private and public collections internationally, including the Institut du Monde Arabe (Paris), the American University of Beirut Museum, and the Bagri Foundation, with a forthcoming acquisition by the British Museum. She currently divides her time between London and Beirut.