Nicole Eisenman

Nicole Eisenman (born 1965) is a French-born American artist known for her oil paintings and sculptures.

[1] On September 29, 2015, 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.

[15] Though she is known for her paintings, the artist also creates installations, drawings, etchings, lithography, monotypes, woodcuts, and sculptures.

[18] Eisenman also created sculptures that have been shown at the 58th Venice Biennale, 2017 Skulptur Projekte Münster, and the 2019 Whitney Biennial.

[19] Eisenman began working on Sketch for a Fountain in 2012, a bronze piece acquired by the Nasher Sculpture Center in 2019.

[37] The artist's work can be found in a number of institutions, including: Eisenman is represented by Hauser & Wirth (since 2019), Sadie Coles in London and Anton Kern, and Vielmetter Los Angeles.