Sobre el Artista

Nicole Melnicky is a contemporary and queer conceptual artist based out of Los Angeles, California. She received her MFA in Interdisciplinary Art, Media, and Design at OCAD University in Toronto, ON. She obtained her BFA from Moore College of Art and Design in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with a major in Fine Art, along with minors in Textile Design, and Art History. Melnicky was hosted as an artist-in-residence at Vermont Studio Center, Otis College of Art and Design, The Ou Gallery, Studio H Canada, LEÑA Artist Research & Residency, and AZULE. Her work has been exhibited at Silvermine Galleries (New Canaan, CT), The William Vale (Brooklyn, NY), The Queer Art Collective (Pawtucket, RI), Art Gallery 118 (Brooklyn, NY), The Other Art Fair (Brooklyn, NY), Benjamin Lumb Art House (West Vancouver, BC), Art Vancouver International Art Fair (Vancouver, BC), and in the Queer Art Festival (Vancouver, BC). Through her research and studio practice, Nicole Melnicky creates colorful abstract paintings and fashion garments on feminism, gender, and queer sexuality.