Nadia Di Fiore is a Montreal-based illustrator and folklorist. She creates editorial illustrations, illustrated books for adults, and greeting cards.

Her practice is rooted in popular cultural memory, with a focus on mid-century commercial imagery (1930s–1960s), food, and everyday objects. Her work also explores northern wildlife and vintage visual culture, where drawing and hand lettering are inspired by vernacular and advertising aesthetics.

Her approach is shaped by an interest in the materiality of the image. Having studied screen printing and risography, she brings the textures and imperfections of these print processes into her digital illustrations, maintaining the grain and sensitivity of traditional techniques.

Her work balances narrative and simplicity, translating everyday scenes into images that feel both familiar and quietly unexpected. This visual language lends itself to both editorial storytelling and licensing.

Her background reflects a longstanding interest in storytelling and visual culture. She directed a short documentary on kitsch that screened at several international festivals and pursued doctoral studies in cinema and literature, focusing on experimental cinema and the aesthetics of poverty, before focusing fully on illustration. She has also worked as a bookseller and collaborates regularly with magazines, independent publishers, and organizations focused on environmental and community education.

Away from her drawing table, Nadia collects visual references from Soviet matchboxes and food packaging, somewhere between propaganda and the pantry. She draws bears, her favourite subject, knits northern-style mittens, and cooks for five humans who can never quite agree on tofu or, for some unknown reason, the very concept of sauce.