Leni Smoragdova is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice engages transaction as an artistic medium. Leni is the founder of the Transaction Art Universe.

Her practice looks closely at what our systems capture—and, more significantly, at what escapes them: glitches, failures, losses, distortions, and disappearances.

Part of her practice is developed under the collective name {Transaction}, often in collaboration with anonymous participants. Authorship is intentionally left open and cannot always be clearly attributed.

Her ambition is to build wealth and influence in the global art market in order to establish an independent research institute dedicated to the intersection of severe psychiatric and neurological conditions, particularly those that emerge during adolescence, profoundly alter the course of a person’s life, and remain difficult to treat or bring into sustained remission.