Nicola Lopez

Born in Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1975, Nicola Lopez completed her BA in anthropology at Columbia University in 1998. In 2002 she attended the Skowhegan School for Painting and Sculpture in Maine and in 2004 received her MFA in visual arts from Columbia University, as well as an MFA grant from the Joan Mitchell Foundation. She has participated in residencies at Assilah Summer Mousseum, Assilah, Morocco; La Curtiduria in Oaxaca, Mexico; and the Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, California. She has been a visiting assistant professor of studio arts at Bard College, New York since 2007. She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

Lopez has exhibited throughout the United States and internationally. Her early site-specific installation, A Promising Tomorrow, was shown at the Create New York 2005 exhibition at P.S.t. Contemporary Art Center in New York and later acquired by the Museum of Modern Art, where it was part of the 2006 exhibition Since 2000: Printmaking Now. She has also participated in exhibitions at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museo Rufino Tamayo in Mexico City, the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art in Overland Park, Kansas, and the Museo de Arte Contemporaneo in Cusco, Peru. She is represented by Caren Golden Fine Art in New York.