Nicole eisenman biography

Nicole Eisenman

American artist (born )

Nicole Eisenman (born ) is a French-born American artist known for her oil paintings and sculptures. She has been awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship (), the Carnegie Prize (), and has thrice been included in the Whitney Biennial (, , ).[1] On September 29, , she won a MacArthur Fellowship award for "restoring the representation of the human form a cultural significance that had waned during the ascendancy of abstraction in the 20th century."[2]

Eisenman lives in Brooklyn.[3][4][5]

Biography

Nicole Eisenman was born in in Verdun, France[6][7] where her father was stationed as an army psychiatrist. She is of German-Jewish descent; her great-grandmother was Esther Hamerman, a Polish-born painter.[8][9]

In , Eisenman's family moved from France to Scarsdale, New York, where she spent her childhood.[10][11] She attended the Rhode Island School of Design, graduating with a B.F.A in painting in She then moved to New York City.[12]

Between and , Eisenman taught at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson.[13]

Work

Eisenman's figurative oil paintings often toy with themes of sexuality, comedy, and caricature.[15] Though she is known for her paintings, the artist also creates installations, drawings, etchings, lithography, monotypes, woodcuts, and sculptures.[15][16] With A.L. Steiner, she is the co-founder of the queer/feminist curatorial initiative Ridykeulous.[17] Eisenman's work was included in the exhibition Women Painting Women at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth.[18]

Sculpture

Eisenman also created sculptures that have been shown at the 58th Venice Biennale, Skulptur Projekte Münster, and the Whitney Biennial.[19] Eisenman began working on Sketch for a Fountain in , a bronze piece acquired by the Nasher Sculpture Center in [20] The acquisition was funded by the Kaleta A. Doolin Acquisitions Fund for Women Artists and the Green Family Collection.[21]

Exhibitions

  • Nicole Eisenman, Kunsthalle Zürich ()[15]
  • Matrix , Berkeley Art Museum ()[22]
  • Dear Nemesis, Nicole Eisenman –, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis ().[23]
  • Dear Nemesis: Nicole Eisenman –, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia ().[24]
  • Masterpieces & Curiosities: Nicole Eisenman’s Seder[25] (), The Jewish Museum
  • Nicole Eisenman: Al-ugh-ories, New Museum ()[26]
  • Nicole Eisenman: Dark Light, Secession, Vienna, Austria ()[27]
  • Baden Baden Baden, Staatliche Kunsthalle Bade-Baden ()[28]
  • Nicole Eisenman: Sturm und Drang, The Contemporary Austin, Austin[29]
  • Nicole Eisenman: Giant Without a Body, Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, Norway[30]
  • Career retrospective Nicole Eisenman: What Happened at Whitechapel Gallery, London, [31][32]

Recognition

Eisenman has been awarded numerous grants and prizes including the Guggenheim Fellowship (),[33] the Carnegie Prize (),[34] the Anonymous Was a Woman Award ()[35] and the Louis Comfort Tiffany Grant ().[36] She was also the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship. Also in , she was named as one of The Forward [37]

Collections

The artist's work can be found in a number of institutions, including:

Art market

Eisenman is represented by Hauser & Wirth (since ), Sadie Coles in London and Anton Kern, and Vielmetter Los Angeles.[46] She previously worked with Galerie Barbara Weiss.[47]

Personal life

Eisenman is a lesbian. In a interview with The New York Times Eisenman said of her gender identity, "I’m gender fluid, but I use the “she” pronoun. I believe in the radicality of stretching the definition of what 'she' is."[8] Eisenman uses both "she/her" and "they/them" pronouns.[48]

Eisenman has two children with a former partner. In , she was in a relationship with Canadian writer Sarah Nicole Prickett.[49]

Bibliography

  • Nicole Eisenman: Giant without A Body (Astrup Fearnley Museet, )
  • Nicole Eisenman: Behavior (Rice Gallery, )
  • Nicole Eisenman: Selected works – (Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, )
  • Nicole Eisenman: Selected Works – ed. Victor Mathieu (Walther König, )
  • Nicole Eisenman: The Way We Weren't (Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, )
  • Nicole Eisenman ed. Beatrix Ruf (JRP-Ringier, )
  • Parkett no. 91 (Parkett Verlag, )[1]
  • Nicole Eisenman: Dear Nemesis, – (Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis/Walther König, )

References

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  2. ^Pogrebin, Robin (). "MacArthur 'Genius Grant' Winners for Are Announced". The New York Times. ISSN&#; Retrieved
  3. ^"Nicole Eisenman &#; Whitney Museum of American Art". Archived from the original on 22 September Retrieved 21 September
  4. ^Kotz, Liz (October ). "Nicole Eisenman". Artforum International. Archived from the original on December 3,
  5. ^"A Truly Great Artist". Hyperallergic. Retrieved
  6. ^"ULAN Full Record Display (Getty Research)". . Retrieved
  7. ^Phaidon Editors (). Great women artists. Phaidon Press. p.&#; ISBN&#;.
  8. ^ abSolomon, Deborah (). "A Conversation With Nicole Eisenman and Grace Dunham". The New York Times. ISSN&#; Retrieved
  9. ^Newhall, Edith (6 March ). "All in the Family". Artnews. Retrieved 24 December
  10. ^"Even the Art Museums Can't Escape Her Barbs", New York Times, Retrieved 7 September
  11. ^Schjeldahl, Peter (9 May ). "Art's One-Woman Insurgency". The New Yorker. Retrieved
  12. ^ abParker, Ian. "Every Nicole Eisenman Picture Tells a Story". The New Yorker. Retrieved
  13. ^"Nicole Eisenman", Carnegie International, Retrieved 11 August
  14. ^Pen, Hanneloes; Vugts, Paul (). "Nieuwe rechtbank Amsterdam: statig en strak, maar ook heel open". Het Parool (in Dutch). Retrieved
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  16. ^Hirsch, Faye (). "Nicole Eisenman's Prints and People". . Retrieved
  17. ^"Readykeulous by Ridykeulous: This is What Liberation Feels Like™", CAM, Retrieved 13 September
  18. ^"Women Painting Women". Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. Retrieved 14 May
  19. ^Scott, Chadd (). "Nicole Eisenman Installation Puts Exclamation Point On Fenway Development". Forbes. Retrieved
  20. ^"Nicole Eisenman's Sketch for a Fountain - by Arthur Peña". . Retrieved
  21. ^"Recent Acquisition: Nicole Eisenman, Sketch for a Fountain April 27, - October 27, | Exhibition - Nasher Sculpture Center". . Retrieved
  22. ^"Nicole Eisenman / MATRIX (May 3-July 14, ) | BAMPFA". . 3 April Retrieved
  23. ^"Dear Nemesis, Nicole Eisenman ", Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, January – April Retrieved 17 February
  24. ^"Dear Nemesis: Nicole Eisenman ", ICA Philadelphia, Retrieved 11 August
  25. ^"Masterpieces & Curiosities: Nicole Eisenman's Seder". The Jewish Museum. Retrieved
  26. ^"Nicole Eisenman: Al-ugh-ories". . Retrieved
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  30. ^"Nicole Eisenman – Giant Without a Body – Astrup Fearnley Museet". Retrieved
  31. ^"Nicole Eisenman: What Happened". Whitechapel Gallery. Retrieved 11 October
  32. ^Armistead, Claire (9 October ). "It's the opposite of porn': the astonishing art and life of Nicole Eisenman". The Guardian. Retrieved 11 October
  33. ^"Nicole Eisenman - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation"Archived at the Wayback Machine, John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, Retrieved 11 August
  34. ^"Wielding a New Medium, Nicole Eisenman Wins the Carnegie Prize". Archived from the original on Retrieved , ArtInfo, Retrieved 10 August
  35. ^"ICA - Philadelphia, PA - ICA congratulates Anonymous Was A Woman award winners". Institute of Contemporary Art - Philadelphia, PA. 8 July Retrieved
  36. ^"Nicole Eisenman at Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (Contemporary Art Daily)". . Retrieved
  37. ^"Forward 50 ". Retrieved
  38. ^"Eisenman, Nicole", Art Institute of Chicago, Retrieved 11 August
  39. ^"Nicole Eisenman | MoMA". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved
  40. ^"New Work: Drawings Today · SFMOMA". . Retrieved
  41. ^"Walker Art Center". . Retrieved
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  45. ^"Recent Acquisition: Nicole Eisenman, Sketch for a Fountain April 27, - October 27, | Exhibition - Nasher Sculpture Center". . Retrieved
  46. ^Alex Greenberger (January 15, ), Nicole Eisenman Joins Powerhouse Hauser & Wirth Gallery Following Star Turns at the Venice and Whitney BiennialsARTnews.
  47. ^Berlin Art Dealer Barbara Weiss Dies at 56&#;ARTnews, January 4,
  48. ^"See the Models for the Next Fourth Plinth Commission, From Nicole Eisenman's 'Jewelry Tree' to a Statue of a Malawian Revolutionary". Artnet News. Retrieved
  49. ^Parker, Ian (). "Every Nicole Eisenman Picture Tells a Story". The New Yorker.

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