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Nicole Eisenman

Biography

Born

Born in Verdun, France, 1965

Education

BFA, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, 1987

Solo Exhibitions

2025

Kunstmuseum Schloss Derneburg, 'Schloss Lyfe', Derneburg, Germany

52 Walker, 'Nicole Eisenman', New York NY

Anton Kern, 'Nicole Eisenman: Plastered', New York NY

2024

Sadie Coles HQ, 'Nicole Eisenman', London, UK
Madison Square Park, 'Fixed Crane', New York NY

Hauser & Wirth, 'Nicole Eisenman. with, and, of, on Sculpture', Paris, France

MCA Chicago, 'Nicole Eisenman. What Happened', Chicago IL (Traveling Exhibition)  

Selected Group Exhibitions

2025

56 Henry, 'Small Format Paintings', New York NY 

Karma Gallery, 'A Certain Form of Hell', Thomaston ME
Centre Pompidou Metz, 'Copyists', Metz, France
Olivia Foundation, 'Woman in a Rowboat', Mexico City, Mexico
Pace Gallery, 'The Monster', Los Angeles CA
Deichtorhallen Hamburg, 'How's My Painting? Paintings from the Falckenberg Collection', Hamburg, Germany
Palazzo Reale, 'Da Cindy Sherman a Francesco Vezzoli. 80 artisti contemporanei. Opere dalla collezione Iannaccone', Milan, Italy
Langen Foundation, Museum Insel Hombroich, 'Drawing, Painting, Sculpture, Photography, Film, Video, Sound - Ringier Collection 1995-2025', Neuss, Germany

Kunstmuseum Basel, 'Ghosts. Visualizing the Supernatural', Basel, Switzerland

2024

Acquavella Galleries, 'Portraiture: From Cassatt to Freud', Palm Beach FL
Pierogi Gallery, 'Pierogi 30: 30th Anniversary Exhibition', New York NY
ICA LA, 'Scientia Sexualis', Los Angeles CA 

Moderna Museet, 'My Eyes are Like Funnels, My Ass is a Hand', Stockholm, Sweden 
Jewish Museum, Amsterdam, 'Sex: Jüdische Posi­tionen', Amsterdam, Netherlands (Traveling Exhibition) 

The Drawing Center, 'The Way I See It: Selections from the KAWS Collection', New York NY

Lodovico Corsini, 'Flowers of Romance', Brussels, Belgium

The Church, 'Are You Joking? Women & Humor', Sag Harbor NY

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 'Get in the Game', San Francisco CA

Jüdisches Museum Berlin, 'Sex: Jüdische Posi­tionen', Berlin, Germany
The National Gallery of Art, 'The Anxious Eye: German Expressionism and Its Legacy', Washington DC

Gallerie Nazionali di Arte Antica, 'Day for Night: New American Realism', Rome, Italy 

Public Collections

American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York

The Art Institute of Chicago Carnegie Museum of Art

Centre national des arts plastiques, Paris

Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College, Winter Park FL

Denver Art Museum

The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College

Hall Art Foundation Hammer Museum, Los Angeles

Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca NY

The Jewish Museum, New York

Long Museum, Shanghai

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden

The Morgan Library & Museum, New York

Museum Brandhorst, Munich Museum Ludwig, Cologne

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego

Museum of Modern Art, New York

Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas

National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

RISD Museum, Providence RI Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham MA

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Tate, London Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown MA

Other Projects

2023

Ursula Magazine and The Poetry Project, 'Why I’m Not a Painter: The Poetry Issue', Issue No. 8, May 2023

Ridykeulous, 'Ridykes’ Cavern of Fine Inverted Wines and Deviant Videos', Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK

2021

Ridykeulous, 'Ridykes’ Cavern of Fine Gay Wine and Videos: Hauser & Werk Bitch: Don’t Be Mad At Us!', Hauser & Wirth, New York NY

Audiovisuals

2012

Whitney Museum, 2012 Whitney Biennial, 'Nicole Eisenman. Figure Drawing Atelier with Commentary by Margie Weinstein, Manager of Education Initiatives', New York NY

Awards and Grants

2022

Elected to 2022 Class of National Academicians, National Academy of Design, New York NY

2018

Elected to American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York NY 

Suzanne Deal Booth/FLAG Art Foundation Prize, Austin TX/New York NY

Teaching

2003-09 Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson NY

2001-02 Mount Royal College of Art, Baltimore MD

2000-01 School of Visual Arts, New York NY

Lectures

Bard College, NY

Columbia University, NY

Colgate University, NY

Harvard University, Architecture Department, MA

Hunter College, NY

Mount Royal College of Art, MD

Provincetown Workshop, MA

Rhode Island School of Design, RI School of Visual Arts, NY

SUNY New Platz, NY

SUNY Binghamton, NY

University of Tennessee, TN

University of Kentucky, KT Vassar College, NY

Yale University, CT

Princeton University, NJ

Queens College, NY

Bibliography

Monographs

2024

Kamin Rapaport, Brooke, Norden, Linda, Haslett, Linda, 'Nicole Eisenman. Fixed Crane', New York: Madison Square Park Conservancy, 2024, ill. (exh. cat.)­
Prickett, Sarah Nicole (ed.), baer, hannah, Black, Hannah (et al.), 'Makers Muck', Zurich: Hauser & Wirth Publishers, 2024, ill.

2023

Godfrey, Mark, Bayer Wermuth, Monika, Wyma Chloe (et al.), 'Nicole Eisenman: What Happened', London: Whitechapel Gallery, 2023, ill.

Publications

2025

Ridykeulous, 'Ridykeulous Presents: Ridykes’ Cavern of Fine Inverted Wines and Deviant Videos', Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2025, ill. (exh. cat.)
Gumpert, Lynn, Princenthal, Nancy, Sretenović, Vesela (et al.), 'Anonymous Was A Woman. The First 25 Years', New York: Grey Art Museum, New York University and Hirmer Publishers, 2025, p. 301, ill. (exh. cat.)

2024

Winograd, Abigail, Sterrett, Jill (eds.), 'Art in Pursuit of Common Cause', Chicago: The Toward Common Cause Legacy Project in association with The Richard and Mary L. Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry, The University of Chicago, 2024, p. 199, ill. (exh. cat.)
Zuckerman, Heidi, 'Why Art Matters. The Bearable Lightness of Being', Costa Mesa CA: OCMA Press, 2024, p. 366, 412, ill.
Doyle, Jennifer, Vaccaro, Jeanne, 'Scientia Sexualis', Los Angeles: Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles/Inventory Press, 2024, pp. 70-71, 188, ill. (exh. cat.)
Hoptman, Laura, Rudick, Nicole, Rousseau, Valérie (et al.), 'The Way I See It: Selections from the KAWS Collection', New York: The Drawing Center, 2024, pp. 204-205, ill. (exh. cat.)
Murphy, Maia, Clark, Olivia, Flint, Charlotte (eds.), 'Great Women Sculptors', New York: Phaidon, 2024, p. 87, ill.
Fray-Smith, Wells, Malavassi, Paola, Nairne, Eleanor (eds.), 'Noah Davis', Munich/London/New York: Prestel, 2024, p. 61, ill.
Davis, Isaiah, 'Building Sculptures From the Neck Down with Nicole Eisenman' [interview], on: elephant.art, 23 July 2024, ill.
Rolls-Bentley, Gemma, 'Queer Art: From Canvas to Club and the Spaces Between', London: Francis Lincoln, 2024, pp. 124-125, ill.
Goldmann, Miriam, Rosenthal, Joanne, Zoeter, Titia (eds.), 'Sex: Jewish Positions', Berlin: Jüdisches Museum Berlin, 2024, pp. 58, 208, ill. (exh. cat.)
Dietrich, Maurin, Hasnay, Gloria, (eds.), 'For Now. 200 Years Kunstverein München', Munich: Kunstverein München, 2023, pp. 272-273, ill.
Andera, Margaret, Grabner, Michelle (eds.), '50 Paintings', Milwaukee: Milwaukee Art Museum, 2024, pp. 72-73, 158, ill. (exh. cat.)
Rapaport, Brooke Kamin (ed.), 'Public Art in Public Spaces', New York: Madison Square Park Conservancy and Gregory R. Miller & Co., 2024, pp. 210-211, 217, ill.

Selected Press

2025

Feigis, Alma, 'Medrie MacPhee and Nicole Eisenman Discuss Dystopia, Denim, and the Joy of Destruction' [interview], on: elephant.art, 9 April 2025, ill.

Feigis, Alma, 'Morning Studio', in: The Toe Rag Magazine, London, no. 5, Spring 2025, p. 18, ill.

___, 'Nicole Eisenman returns with new works at Sadie Coles HQ', on: artdaily.com, 15 January 2025, ill.
Imdahl, Georg, 'Große Kunst darf auch gemein sein', on: faz.net, 7 January 2025, ill.

2024

Chew-Bose, Durga, 'Making Art At The End Of The World' [interview], in: Homme Girls, New York, no. 12, Fall 2024, pp. 92-107, ill.
Wolthers, Louise, 'Curator Louise Wolthers on this year’s most infectious shows in Sweden and Denmark', on: kunstkritikk.com, 10 December 2024, ill.
___, 'Power 100', on: artreview.com, 4 December 2024, ill.
Rosenfeld, Jason, 'Nicole Eisenman: Fixed Crane', on: brooklynrail.org, November 2024, ill.
Russeth, Andrew, 'Nicole Eisenman’s Fantastic Crashed Crane and Other Mind-Altering Artworks Around NYC', on: news.artnet.com, 30 October 2024, ill.
Fateman, Johanna, 'An Election Week Special: Our Critic on Gary Indiana's New York and Nicole Eisenman's "Fixed Crane"', on: culturedmag.com, 30 October 2024, ill.
Pilven, Marguerite, 'Quand les femmes s'en mêlent et se regardent', in: Art absolument, October/November 2024, ill.
___, 'Nicole Eisenman: Fixed Crane Arriving in Madison Square Park in October', on: gothamtogo.com, 26 September 2024, ill.
___, 'Nicole Eisenman + Edith Hammar. Juegos, suciedad, intimidad, placer y vulnerabilidad', on: dximagazine.com, 24 September 2024, ill.
Johans, Sebastian, 'Samtida expressionister i sprakande möte', on: dn.se, 21 September 2024, ill.
___, 'A Look at the Biggest Stars of Fall', on: nytimes.com, 20 September 2024, ill.
Small, Zachary, 'Nicole Eisenman at the Tipping Point', on: nytimes.com, 7 September 2024, ill.
Hatt, Etienne, 'Nicole Eisenman. with, and, of, on Sculpture' [review], in: artpress, Paris, no. 542, September 2024, p. 82, ill.
Theisen, Lauren, 'The Beauty Of The Ordinary Is There For The Painting' [review], on: defector.com, 20 August 2024, ill.
Kinsella, Eileen, 'Italian Collector Giuseppe Iannacone on the Perils of "Serial Accumulation"', on: news.artnet.com, 14 July 2024, ill.
Engelke, Harriet, 'Top Summer Paris Shows at Thaddaeus Ropac, Max Hetzler, and More', on: whitewall.art, 12 July 2024, ill.
Plagens, Peter, '"Nicole Eisenman: What Happened" Review: Painting at Fever Pitch', on: wsj.com, 10 July 2024, ill.
Gemima, Clare, 'Nicole Eisenman: What Happened at MCA Chicago', on: whitehotmagazine.com, 9 July 2024, ill.
Moroz, Sarah, 'New Nicole Eisenman Work Debuts in Paris Parallel to Her MCA Show', on: observer.com, 2 July 2024, ill.
Lauter, Devorah, 'Nicole Eisenman on Building and Breaking Narratives', on news.artnet.com, 26 June 2024, ill.
Ringier, Michael, Demeester, Ann, 'Es geht um die idee dahinter' [interview], in: INTERVIEW by Ringier, Zurich, June 2024, pp. 122-135, ill.