Nicole Eisenman
Nicole Eisenman (born 1965) is an American artist who is known primarily for her paintings. Eisenman was a professor at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson from 2003 to 2009.[1] She has been awarded the Guggenheim fellowship (1996), the Carnegie Prize (2013), and has twice been included in the Whitney Biennial (1995, 2012).[2] On September 29, 2015, she won the MacArthur "Genius Grant" award for "restoring the representation of the human form a cultural significance that had waned during the ascendancy of abstraction in the 20th century”.[3] Eisenman currently lives and works in Brooklyn.[4][5]
Early life
Nicole Eisenman was born in 1965 in Verdun, France[6] where her father was stationed as an Army psychiatrist. She grew up in Scarsdale, New York[7][8] and graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1987.[9] Her great-grandmother was Esther Hamerman.[10]
Work
Eisenman's figural oil paintings often toy with themes of sexuality, comedy, and caricature.[11] Though she is known for her paintings, the artist also creates installations, drawings, prints, and sculptures.[11] With A.L. Steiner, she is the co-founder of the queer/feminist curatorial initiative Ridykeulous.[12]
Eisenman is represented by Galerie Barbara Weiss in Berlin, Anton Kern Gallery in New York City and Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects in Los Angeles.
Partial exhibition history
Solo exhibitions
- Nicole Eisenman, Kunsthalle Zürich (2007)[11]
- Matrix 248, Berkeley Art Museum (2013)
- Dear Nemesis, Nicole Eisenman 1993–2013, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (2014).[13]
- Dear Nemesis: Nicole Eisenman 1993–2013, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia (2014).[14]
- Nicole Eisenman: Al-ugh-ories, New Museum (2016)
Group exhibitions
- Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art (1995)[15]
- Provocations, California Art Center (2004)
- Prospect.2 New Orleans (2011)
- Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art (2012)[16]
- 2013 Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art (2013).[1]
- Manifesta10, The Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg (2014)[17]
- NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star, New Museum (2013)
- The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World, MoMA (2014)[18]
Recognition
Eisenman has been awarded numerous grants and prizes including the Guggenheim Fellowship (1996),[19] the Carnegie Prize,[20] the Anonymous Was a Woman Award (2014) and the Louis Comfort Tiffany Grant (1995).[2] She was also the recipient of a 2015 MacArthur "genius grant." Also in 2015, she was named as one of The Forward 50.[21]
Collections
The artist's work can be found in a number of institutions, including:
- Art Institute of Chicago[22]
- Museum of Modern Art, New York[2]
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art[2]
- Walker Art Center, Minneapolis[2]
- Whitney Museum of American Art, New York[2]
- Kunsthalle Zürich[2]
Bibliography
- Nicole Eisenman: Behavior (Rice Gallery, 1998)
- Nicole Eisenman: Selected works 1993–2003 (Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, 2003)
- Nicole Eisenman: Selected Works 1994–2004 ed. Victor Mathieu (Walther König, 2008)
- Nicole Eisenman: The Way We Weren't (Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, 2010)
- Nicole Eisenman ed. Beatrix Ruf (JRP-Ringier, 2011)
- Parkett no. 91 (Parkett Verlag, 2012)
- Nicole Eisenman: Dear Nemesis, 1993–2013 (Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis/Walther König, 2014)
References
- 1 2 "Nicole Eisenman", 2013 Carnegie International, Retrieved 11 August 2014.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Nicole Eisenman CV", Koening & CLinton, Retrieved 7 September 2014.
- ↑ Pogrebin, Robin (2015-09-29). "MacArthur 'Genius Grant' Winners for 2015 Are Announced". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2015-09-29.
- ↑ "Nicole Eisenman | Whitney Museum of American Art". whitney.org. Retrieved 21 September 2015.
- ↑ Kotz, Liz (October 1993). "Nicole Eisenman". Artforum International – via Questia (subscription required) . Retrieved 25 November 2013.
- ↑ "Koenig & Clinton - Nicole Eisenman", Koenig and Clinton, Retrieved 10 August 2014.
- ↑ "Even the Art Museums Can't Escape Her Barbs", New York Times, Retrieved 7 September 2014.
- ↑ "BUTT JOHNSON INTERVIEWS NICOLE EISENMAN", ReReveal, Retrieved 7 September 2014.
- ↑ "Biography of Nicole Eisenman - Susanne Vielmetter, Los Angeles Projects". vielmetter.com. Retrieved 21 September 2015.
- ↑ Newhall, Edith. "All in the Family". Artnews. Retrieved 24 December 2015.
- 1 2 3 "Eisenmann", Kunsthalle Zurich, 11 August 2014.
- ↑ "Readykeulous by Ridykeulous: This is What Liberation Feels Like™", CAM, Retrieved 13 September 2014.
- ↑ "Dear Nemesis, Nicole Eisenman 1993-2013", Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, January 2014 – April 2014. Retrieved 17 February 2015.
- ↑ "Dear Nemesis: Nicole Eisenman 1993-2013", ICA Philadelphia, Retrieved 11 August 2014.
- ↑ Inde, Vilis (1998). Art in the Courtroom. Praeger – via Questia (subscription required) . p. 40.
- ↑ Herbert, Martin (November 2012). "London Round-up". Art Monthly – via Questia (subscription required) . Retrieved 25 November 2013.
- ↑ "Artists - Manifesta10", Manifesta, Retrieved 11 August 2014.
- ↑ "MoMa | The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World", MoMA, Retrieved 6 March 2015.
- ↑ "Nicole Eisenman - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation", John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, Retrieved 11 August 2014.
- ↑ , the Carnegie Prize (2013) "Wielding a New Medium, Nicole Eisenman Wins the Carnegie Prize"., ArtInfo, Retrieved 10 August 2014.
- ↑ November 11, 2015 (2015-11-07). "Forward 50 2015 –". Forward.com. Retrieved 2015-11-11.
- ↑ "Eisenman, Nicole", Art Institute of Chicago, Retrieved 11 August 2014.
External links
- Nicole Eisenman at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects
- Nicole Eisenman at Anton Kern Gallery
- Nicole Eisenman and David Humphrey Bomb
- Nicole Eisenman in the collection of The Museum of Modern Art
- Nicole Eisenman at the Carnegie International