Milena De Rosa (b. 2003, London, UK) lives and works in Nottingham, UK. She received her BA (Hons) in Fine Art from Goldsmiths, University of London in 2025.

De Rosa’s paintings explore the gaze and the everyday lives of women. Her work considers how looking is never neutral, framed as an exchange between subject, viewer, and artist. Influenced by cinematic aesthetics, she works from staged and carefully composed images of herself and those close to her, depicting moments of intimacy, tension, and observation within familiar interiors and garden settings. Cropping, saturated colour, and intense light sources are used to construct a psychological atmosphere and to complicate the relationship between subject and viewer. Using diluted oil paint, she builds and wipes back paint to reveal the white surface, unsettling the legibility of her figures through shifting registers of light, colour, and form.