b. 1980, lives and works in Virginia
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018 Shockoe Artspace, Richmond, VA, "Shape Shifting"
2015 Fine Arts Gallery, University of Wisconsin- Marinette, Marinette, WI, "Site Cycle: Moments and Versions"
2015 Rueff Gallery, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, "Site Cycle: Moments and Versions"
2015 Twelve21 Gallery, Orlando, FL, "Deconstructing Reality"
2013 Civilian Art Projects, Washington, DC, "Neon Planar"
2012 COOP, Nashville, TN, "Space Spells"
2011 Civilian Art Projects, Washington, DC, "Site/Schema"
2010 Rawls Museum Arts, Courtland, VA, "Alternating Realities"
2009 Civilian Art Projects, Washington, DC, "Debriscapes"
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2024 University of Mary Washington Galleries, Fredericksburg, VA, "Mid-Atlantic New Painting Biennial"
2024 Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA, "Cut Paste Create: The Art of Collage"
2024 Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA, "The Art of Collage"
2023 Slow Ready, The Gallery, Cheriton, VA, "Works on Paper"
2023 Artspace Gallery, Richmond, VA, "ThinkSmall 12"
2023 The Cultural Arts Center at Glen Allen, Glen Allen, VA, "Environment at Risk"
2023 Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA, "Teeny Tiny Trifecta"
2023 The Delaware Contemporary, Wilmington, DE, "Color Speaks"
2023 Katzen Arts Center, Washington, DC, "The Barlow Gilotty Collection"
2022 Shockoe Artspace, Richmond, VA, "FEAST!"
2022 Artlink, Fort Wayne, IN, "Nocturne"
2022 Indiana University Kokomo, Kokomo, IN, "Drawn"
2022 Crooked Tree Arts Center, Traverse City, MI, "Small Worlds"
2022 Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville, TN, "Art of the South"
2022 BUOY Gallery, Kittery, ME, "Garden Party"
2022 Stay Home Gallery, Paris, TN, "Wax & Wane"
2021 Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Virginia Beach, VA, "Made in Virginia"
2021 Dodomu Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, "Heatwave" (online)
2021 Gormley Gallery, Notre Dame of Maryland University, Baltimore, MD, "32nd National Drawing and Print Exhibition"
2021 Shockoe Artspace, Richmond, VA, "The Things We Build"
2020 St. Louis Artists' Guild, Clayton, MO, "New Perspectives in Drawing and Painting" (online)
2020 LBIF of the Arts and Sciences, Loveladies, NJ, "Works on Paper 2020: National Juried Exhibition"
2020 Gallery5, Richmond, VA, "Dreams" (online)
2020 The Broad Gallery for Women in the Arts, Richmond, VA, "She Blooms in the Winter"
2019 James Oliver Gallery/HOT•BED Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, "Summer Rush"
2019 McLean Project for the Arts, McLean, VA, "Strictly Painting 12"
2019 Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY, "Juxtaposition: Contemporary Collage"
2019 Plant Zero Project Space, Richmond, VA, "Environment at Risk"
2019 Crooked Tree Arts Center, Traverse City, MI, "Fresh Cuts: The Art of Papercraft"
2018 Visual Arts Center of Richmond, Richmond, VA, "Young + Artful"
2018 Art File/Works on Paper, Montclair, NJ, "Inaugural Exhibition"
2018 Charles Taylor Visual Arts Center, Hampton, VA, "Virginia Artists 2018"
2018 Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV, "Exhibition 280"
2018 Hambidge Center, Rabun Gap, GA, "Sign of the Times: Fellows' Invitational Exhibition"
2018 Maitland Arts and History Museum, Maitland, FL, "Women of the Research Studio: Past and Present"
2017 Daegu Arts Center, South Korea, "15th International Exchange Exhibition of AOH"
2017 Taubman Museum, Roanoke, VA, "Homeward Bound"
2017 1708 Gallery/Black Iris, Richmond, VA, "Cabin Fever"
2016 Linden Row Inn/1708 Satellite Space, Richmond, VA, "Art Among the Ruins"
2016 Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY, "Funhouse: Art of the Surreal, Fantastic, and Bizarre"
2016 Rawls Museum Arts, Courtland, VA, "EMERGING IV"
2016 Grand Gallery, McNeese University, Lake Charles, LA, "29th Annual McNeese Works on Paper"
2015 The Gallery at NOVA-Woodbridge, Northern Virginia Community College, Woodbridge, VA, "Material/Method: Contemporary Practices in Painting"
2015 FAB Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, "Space Jam"
2015 Sediment, Richmond, VA, "The Soul and the Pawn Shop"
2015 Artisphere, Arlington, VA, "Washington Project for the Arts' SELECT: 2015"
2014 Tephra Institute for Contemporary Art, Reston, VA, "LineWorks: Drawing Redefined"
2014 Fosdick-Nelson Gallery, Alfred University, Alfred, NY, "Ecstatically Quiet"
2014 Gallery5, Richmond, VA, "Rhythm: Fall Line Fest Juried Exhibition"
2014 Project 4, Washington, DC, "Centerfold Artist"
2014 Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington, Arlington, VA, "CSA: 40 Years of Community-Sourced Art"
2013 Volume, Bethlehem, PA, "Volume Recap Show"
2013 Alter Space, San Francisco, CA, "Practicing to Pretend"
2013 Delicious Spectacle, Washington, DC, "Unfettered"
2013 Volume, online exhibition, "Building Black"
2012 McLean Project for the Arts, McLean, VA, "Edges and Grids"
2012 Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD, "The Sum of the Parts"
2011 Rawls Museum Arts, Courtland, VA, "Episodic Narrative"
2011 Artspace Gallery, Richmond, VA, "Radius 250"
2010 Katzen Arts Center, Washington, DC, "RE-VISION: American University Alumni"
2010 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA, "Monster Drawing Rally"
2010 Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Virginia Beach, VA, "New Waves 2010"
2009 Artspace, Richmond, VA, "Think Small 5: Biennial Miniature Art Invitational"
2009 Transformer/X-Initiative, New York, NY, "No Soul For Sale"
2009 New American Paintings, The Open Studios Press, Boston, MA, Mid-Atlantic States #81
2009 Katzen Arts Center, Washington, DC, "RESULTS"
2008 Randall Scott Gallery, Washington, DC, “Quasi-Painting”
2008 F.U.E.L. Collection, Philadelphia, PA, “Grand Small Works”
2008 Transformer and Heineman Myers, Washington, DC, “Paper Trail”
2008 Civilian Art Projects, Washington, DC, “Quart Bag”
2008 Paperwork Gallery, Baltimore, MD, “Paper Airplane”
2008 Katzen Arts Center, Washington, DC, "NINE"
2006 Gallery5, Richmond, VA, “Urban Scrawl”
SELECTED AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS
2024 Artist Fellowship Residency, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst, VA
2023 Shirley Holden Helberg Grant for Mature Women, National League of American Pen Women, Washington, DC
2023 Fellowship for Works on Paper, Virginia Commission for the Arts, Richmond, VA
2021 Purchase Prize, Notre Dame of Maryland University, Baltimore, MD
2020 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Visual Artist Relief Fellowship, Richmond, VA
2020 WINDOWS by Golden Triangle BID, Washington, DC
2017 Artist Residency, Maitland Arts & History Museum, Maitland, FL
2016 Artist Residency, Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences, Rabun Gap, GA
2015 Adjunct Research Assistance Grant, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
2014 Artist Residency, Jentel Foundation, Banner, WY
2010 First Runner Up in New Waves 2010, Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Virginia Beach, VA
2009 Best In Show, Rawls Museum Arts, Courtland, VA
2009 Mellon Research Grant, American University, Washington, DC
2009 Wolpoff Purchase Award, American University, Washington, DC
2006 Artist Residency, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Notre Dame of Maryland University, Baltimore, MD
Capital One Corporate Art Collection, Richmond, VA
Katzen Museum, American University, Washington, DC
SELECTED PRESS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY
Washington Post, Kriston Capps, "AU Museum Spotlights Two of the D.C. Art Scene's Keenest Observers," March 14, 2023.
NOT REAL ART, Morgan Laurens, "Q+Art: Dimensional Drawings: Nikki Painter Constructs Tiny, Self-Contained Worlds," November 29, 2021.
All She Makes Magazine, Issue 3, Erika B. Hess, “Studio Visit Interview with Nikki Painter,” November, 2021.
VEER Magazine, Betsy DiJulio, "Outstanding Winter Exhibitions at VA MOCA," December 15, 2021.
Commonwealth Times, Aaron Royce, ""She Blooms in Winter" plants garden-worthy art in The Broad Gallery," February 4, 2020.
The Hi-lo, Virginia Broersma, "Survival of the Artist: We are each other's Human Resources," January 6, 2020.
Shockoe Artspeak, Ryan Lauterio and Garreth Blackwell, "Shape Shifting: a Talk with Nikki Painter," iTunes, February 6, 2019.
Orlando Weekly, Richard Reep and Jessica Bryce Young, "Orlando's 2018 exhibitions snapped our eyes wide open," December 26, 2018.
Orlando Weekly, Richard Reep, "At the Maitland Art Center, the future is female- and so is the past," January 17, 2018.
Just Add Watercolor: Inspiration and Painting Techniques from Contemporary Artists, Helen Birch, Chronicle Books, 2015.
Orlando Weekly, Jessica Bryce Young, "Nikki Painter Deconstructs Reality Friday Night at Twelve12 Gallery," February 4, 2015.
East City Arts, Eric Hope, "East City Art Reviews: WPA SELECT at Artisphere," February, 2015.
Washington Post, Mark Jenkins, “In the Galleries: At Greater Reston Arts Center, no straight lines,” December 26, 2014.
Trop Mag/ Centerfold Artist, Annette Isham and Zac Willis, "Ms. December, Nikki Painter," December 18, 2013.
Washington City Paper, Louis Jacobson, “Neon Planar and Offerings at Civilian Art Projects: Two DC artists find occasional beauty in decay,” September 2013.
Freehand: Sketching Tips and Tricks Drawn from Art, Helen Birch, Chronicle Books LLC, San Francisco, CA, 2013.
San Francisco Arts Quarterly Online, Matthew Marchand, “Practicing to Pretend at Alter Space, San Francisco, Part 2 of 2,” August, 2013.
Washington Post, Mark Jenkins, “Journeys to the Intersection of Mind and Matter,” January 31, 2013.
Washington Post, Michael O’Sullivan, “Going Out Guide Art Review: The Sum of the Parts,” March 8, 2012.
Volume, "Nikki Painter (interview)," September, 2011.
Washington Post, Mark Jenkins, “Land artists’ works on paper show larger site-specific endeavors,” October 6, 2011.
New American Paintings, Mid-Atlantic States Competition #81, The Open Studios Press, Boston, MA, April 2009.
BMORE ART, “Quasi-Painting at Randall Scott Gallery,” December 2008.
EDUCATION
2009 - 2007 MFA in Studio Art, American University, Washington, DC
2002 - 1998 BFA in Painting and Printmaking, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA