BIO

Born in Santa Fe, NM, Nicola López currently lives and works  in Brooklyn and teaches at Bard College in upstate NY.  Through her work in printmaking, drawing and installation, López describes and reconfigures our contemporary—primarily urban—landscape.  Her interest in describing ‘place’ stems from time spent working and traveling in different landscapes and cultures and from her undergraduate studies as an anthropology major at Columbia University, where she received her BA and to which she later returned for an MFA in Visual Arts.  López attended the Skowhegan School for Painting and Sculpture as well as other residency programs including the Headlands Center for the Arts in California and La Curtiduría in Oaxaca, Mexico.  She has received support for her work through a 2005 NYFA Fellowhsip in Drawing/Printmaking/Book Arts and a Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA grant, among others.  Her work has been exhibited throughout the United States and internationally: it been included in group exhibitions at museums including MoMA in NY, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in LA, the Museo Rufino Tamayo in Mexico City and the Denver Art Museum in Denver, CO and was the subject of a solo exhibition “Urban Transformations” at the Chazen Museum of Art in Madison, WI and the West Virginia University at Morgantown in 2009-10.   Earlier this year López’s work was the subject of two solo gallery exhibitions: “Structural Detours” at Pace Prints Chelsea in New York and “Marañas” at Arroniz Arte Contemporáneo gallery in Mexico City and her piece ‘Landscape X: Under Construction’ was recently featured at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York in ‘Intervals: Nicola López’  in October, 2011.