Pia Dehne works between painting and collage, layering cinematic reference, portraiture and raw material into images that feel both glamorous and haunted. In her largest pieces a face or an archetype is built up, scratched back and rebuilt until the surface itself becomes part of the subject. Six original works are currently available through Art of NOMA, running from intimate oils on canvas to mixed-media works on fabric approaching two metres tall.
Cultural Memory, Built Up and Scratched Back
Little Red Riding Hood (Deborah Kerr) (acrylic and pastel pencil on fabric, 183 × 152 cm, USD 9,100) is one of the two large works the gallery names as central to her practice. It lays a fairy-tale archetype over the screen presence of the actress Deborah Kerr — the reference is subject matter, a piece of shared cultural memory the painting works against rather than a portrait sitting. Acrylic sets the colour and structure; the pastel pencil carries line and intimate detail; the cloth lets pigment diffuse and settle.
Its counterpart, Tammi Terrell (122 × 101 cm, USD 5,500), takes the singer as its subject and reads less as a likeness than as a tribute. The materials are unusual and doing real work: acrylic grounds the colour, pastel pencil draws the line, and coffee stains the fabric with an organic warmth, the absorption and bleed left visible. Both are unique 2022 works, mounted on professional wooden frames.
What Does the Surface Actually Do Here?
It carries the subject. That sounds like a technicality and it is the whole argument. A conventional portrait asks the image to hold the likeness and the material to stay out of the way. Dehne inverts that: the staining, the scratching back, the way fabric absorbs unevenly are not finish, they are content. What you recognise in these works is not a face reproduced accurately but a presence that has been worked at, partly removed, and worked at again.
That is why the glamour in them keeps turning slightly. Cultural memory does not arrive intact — it arrives abraded, half-erased, rebuilt from whatever survived — and a surface that has visibly been through the same process is a more honest place to put it than a clean one.
The Oil Paintings Work at a Quieter Register
Three 2025 oils on canvas share a format — 50.8 × 40.6 cm (20 × 16 in), USD 4,950 each — and a temperament. Ose leans toward openness and restraint, meaning surfacing gradually through tonal transitions rather than announcing itself. Space Invader turns on boundaries and the quiet tension of intrusion, equilibrium disrupted by something persistent rather than dramatic. Spider and I stages a confrontation that is intimate rather than theatrical, its glamour edged with unease.
At this scale the mode changes — restrained oil instead of layered collage — but the preoccupation does not. These are paintings to be read at close range, where atmosphere and material carry the charge. Each is a unique original, mounted on a wooden frame with a certificate of authenticity.
Scale, Price and Where to Begin
The catalogue divides cleanly. The three small oils at USD 4,950 are the accessible entry into the practice. Tammi Terrell at USD 5,500 and Little Red Riding Hood (Deborah Kerr) at USD 9,100 are the mixed-media works the gallery treats as definitive.
Above those sits Casa Susanna (oil on canvas, 2025, 101.6 × 152.4 cm, USD 16,000), the most expensive work in the Art of NOMA catalogue. It takes a place as its subject without documenting it literally, working instead where memory, structure and light intersect; the horizontal format is built to anchor a room. It is worth stating plainly rather than making a fuss about — the price is published on the work like every other, and the decision it asks for is the same one every painting asks for.
Every price is shown on the piece itself, with no "price on request" and nothing to ask for before you know whether it is in reach. Art of NOMA is an online gallery with no physical space, so there is no room to walk into and no one standing behind you while you decide.
Common Questions About Pia Dehne
Who is Pia Dehne?
Pia Dehne is a contemporary artist represented by Art of NOMA who works between painting and collage. Her work layers cinematic reference, portraiture and raw material into images that read as both glamorous and haunted, with cultural memory and persona built up, scratched back and rebuilt across the surface.
What medium does Pia Dehne work in?
Two main bodies of work. The large pieces are mixed media on fabric — acrylic and pastel pencil, and in the case of Tammi Terrell coffee as well. The smaller 2025 works are oil on canvas. All available works are unique originals supplied with a certificate of authenticity.
How much does a Pia Dehne painting cost?
Available originals run from USD 4,950 for the 50.8 × 40.6 cm oils up to USD 16,000 for Casa Susanna at 101.6 × 152.4 cm. The mixed-media works on fabric sit at USD 5,500 and USD 9,100. Every price is published on the work.
What size are Pia Dehne's works?
They range from 50.8 × 40.6 cm (20 × 16 in) for the small oils to 183 × 152 cm (72.05 × 59.84 in) for Little Red Riding Hood (Deborah Kerr). Exact dimensions in centimetres and inches are listed on every piece.
Where can I buy original Pia Dehne art?
Original paintings and mixed-media works by Pia Dehne are available directly from Art of NOMA, an online gallery. Browse everything currently available on her artist collection page.
Browse every available work on the Pia Dehne collection, explore more original paintings and mixed-media works, or meet the full roster on our artists page.