Nicola López

born 1975 Santa Fe, New Mexico; lives Brooklyn, New York

BiographyKnown for her printmaking, drawing, and installations, Nicola López explores and reconfigures contemporary, mainly urban, landscapes. Her work focuses on describing place, drawing from urban planning, architecture, anthropology, and experiences traveling and working around the world, including Mexico, Peru, and Morocco. López was born in Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1975. She studied at the Escola de Artes Visuais (School of Visual Arts) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1996. She earned her BA from Columbia University in 1998 and her MFA from Columbia in 2004. She has received multiple grants and fellowships, including the 2005 NYFA Fellowship in Drawing/Printmaking/Book Arts and the 2004 Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA Graduate Award. Her work has been exhibited throughout the United States and internationally, at museums including MoMA in New York, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museo Rufino Tamayo in Mexico City, and the Denver Art Museum, and at solo exhibitions at the Chazen Museum of Art (Madison, WI) and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. Today her work is collections including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the New Mexico Museum of Art, and Instituto de Artes Graficos de Oaxaca in Mexico.

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