Nicole Eisenman

Nicole Eisenman
Born1965 (age 58–59)
Verdun, France
EducationRhode Island School of Design (BFA)
Known forRidykeulous
Notable work
  • Heading Down River on the USS J-Bone of an Ass (2017)
  • Procession (2019)
Awards

Nicole Eisenman (born 1965) is a French-born American artist known for her oil paintings and sculptures. She has been awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship (1996), the Carnegie Prize (2013), and has thrice been included in the Whitney Biennial (1995, 2012, 2019).[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."[2]

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

Foghorn Hits the Road (2007)
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  2. ^ Pogrebin, Robin (2015-09-29). "MacArthur 'Genius Grant' Winners for 2015 Are Announced". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2015-09-29.
  3. ^ "Nicole Eisenman | Whitney Museum of American Art". whitney.org. Archived from the original on 22 September 2015. Retrieved 21 September 2015.
  4. ^ Kotz, Liz (October 1993). "Nicole Eisenman". Artforum International. Archived from the original on December 3, 2013.
  5. ^ "A Truly Great Artist". Hyperallergic. 2016-06-05. Retrieved 2018-03-11.