Nana Williams was born in Vienna, Austria. She is a full time self-taught artist, who graduated with a diploma in Photography at "die Graphische" in Vienna before moving to the United States. She mostly works in the mediums of watercolor and gouache, but is also active in the fields of sculpture and apparel design. She has shown her work in galleries across the United States and Europe and has collaborated with clothing companies, small businesses and magazines. She lived and worked in Pasadena, California before moving to Portland, Oregon, where she resides as of 2018.