Nicole Wittenberg

Biography

Nicole Wittenberg was born in 1979, and she is an American artist based in New York City. She is a curator, professor, writer, and painter.


Wittenberg portrays natural landscapes that mirror her emotional state and feelings in a precise moment.


Nodding to the Impressionist movement, the American artist transforms ordinary sceneries into psychological and emotional lands, manifesting a deep fascination for nature and its fleeting changes.


Wittenberg was born in San Francisco, CA, and received her BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2003. She received the American Academy of Arts and Letters coveted John Koch Award for Best Young Figurative Painter in 2012. From 2011–2014 she served as a teacher at the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture, and the Bruce High Quality Foundation University, and in 2017 she was a professor in the Critical Theory Department at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.


Wittenberg’s works are included in many prominent collections, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; The Albertina, Vienna, Austria; the Boston Museum of Fine Art, Boston, MA; Aishti Foundation, Beirut, Lebanon; and others.


Exhibitions include The Female Gaze, Part Two: Women Look at Men at Cheim & Read Gallery, New York, NY; Painter’s Painters: Gifts from Alex Katz, High Museum of Art Atlanta, GA; and In Her Hands, Skarstedt Gallery, New York, NY.

Solo exhibitions
Year
Country, Exhibition Name, Location
2023
UK, Moonshine Lullaby, MASSIMODECARLO, London
2022
US, Our Love is Here to Stay, Acquavella Galleries, Palm Beach
USA, Tennis Elbow, Journal Gallery, New York
2021
US, Honeysuckle Rose, Ross + Kramer, East Hampton
2020
US, Sunday Kind of Love, Nina Johnson Gallery, Miami
2018
US, Them, There, Eyes, Yours Mine Ours Gallery, New York
2017
A, Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow, Galerie Lisa Kandlhofer, Vienna
US, Comin’ Thro’ the Rye, Nina Johnson Gallery, Miami
2016
US, The Yellow Kiss, Yours Mine & Ours Gallery, New York
2012
US, The Malingerers, Freight and Volume Gallery, New York
Group exhibitions
Year
Country, Exhibition Name, Location
2022
UK, By a Thread, A.I. Gallery, London
US, Shrubs, Night Gallery, Los Angeles
US, Some People, Cheim & Read, New York
US, Unnatural Nature: Post-Pop Landscapes, Acquavella Gallery, New York
US, Nicole Wittenberg: Pastels; Aase Texmon Rygh: Sculptures, SFA Advisory, New York
US, The View from Here, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland
2021
US, Read Desert Curated by John Garcia, Rockaway Artists Alliance, New York
US, Powder Your Face with Sunshine, Viewing Room at Ross + Kramer, New York
US, Rewilding, Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles
US, Ridiculously Sublime, SFA Advisory, New York
US, Sunny Side Up, SUNNY NY, New York
2020
I, The Hawt Show II, Galerie Rolando Anselmi, Atina
US, In Her Hands Curated by David Salle, Skarstedt Gallery, New York
US, Downtown Painting, Peter Freeman Gallery, New York
US, For My Lovers Only Curated by John Garcia, cfcp Presents, New York
UK, Temple of Love Curated by Faye Wei Wei, Cob Gallery, London
US, Yellow, September Gallery, Hudson
2018
UK, Relating Narratives Curated by Rose Gibbs, Horse Hospital, London
UK, New Work Part 3, Subject Cob Gallery, London
US, It’s Personal, Edward Ressle Gallery, New York
US, Reflector, Luciana Brito Gallery, New York
2017
A, Look! New Acquisitions, Albertina, Vienna
US, The Roger Ailes Memorial Show: Fair and Balanced, Yours Mine & Ours Gallery, New York
US, Visionary Painting: Curated by Alex Katz, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville
US, Boys of Summer, Upstairs Art Fair, Yours Mine & Ours Gallery, Amagansett
2016
US, The Female Gaze, Part Two: Women Look at Men, Cheim Read Gallery, New York
US, DICKS, Fortnight Institute, New York
US, Mi Casa, Tu Casa, Johannes Vogt Gallery, New York
US, Nice Weather Curated by David Salle, Skarstedt Gallery, New York
US, A Stay in the Paphos Loop, Offspace.xyz, New York
2015
US, Intimates, Four AM, New York
US, Painter’s Painters: Gifts from Alex Katz, High Museum of Art Atlanta, Atlanta

Public collections

Country
Location
Austria
The Albertina, Vienna
Lebanon
Aishti Foundation, Beirut
United States
Boston Museum of Fine Art, Boston, MA
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, MA
Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME
Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

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