BIO
Nicole Pietrantoni (b. 1981) creates experimental artists’ books, prints, and installations. Her work uses print media to investigate facsimiles of the natural world and how printed matter produces desire.
She is the recipient of numerous awards including a Fulbright to Iceland, an Artist Trust Fellowship, a Larry Sommers Printmaking Fellowship, a Leifur Eiríksson Foundation Grant, the Manifest Prize, and a Graves Award for Excellence in Humanities Research and Teaching.
Pietrantoni has been awarded artist residencies at Meta Open Arts, the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (Halifax, Canada), Anderson Ranch Arts Center (Snowmass Village, CO), R.A.R.O. Residency (Barcelona, Spain), La Maldita Estampa (Barcelona, Spain) Cork Printmakers (Cork, Ireland), and the Venice Printmaking Studio (Venice, Italy), among others.
She has been a visiting artist and lecturer at over 40 institutions and her art has been in over 100 national and international exhibitions. Exhibition venues include solo exhibitions at the San Juan Island Museum of Art (San Juan Island, WA), the Coos Museum of Art (Coos Bay, OR), the Kimball Arts Center (Park City, UT), the Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia (Athens, GA), and the Manifest Gallery (Cincinatti, OH). Group venues include the Anne Norton Sculpture Gardens and Museum (Palm Beach, FL), the IMPACT International Printmaking Conference (Bristol, United Kingdom and Santander, Spain), the San Francisco Center for the Book (San Francisco, CA), American University Museum (Washington, DC), Lia Libro de Artista (Guadalajara, Mexico), and 23 Sandy Gallery (Portland, Oregon).
Her artwork is in collections including Yale University, the Library of Congress, Washington State Arts Commission, Zahed University-United Arab Emirates, University of Iowa Museum of Art, and the Zuckerman Museum of Art. Pietrantoni’s work has been included in publications including Art in Print, The Washington Post, and featured in the book American Printmakers (Schiffer Publishing).
Pietrantoni received her MFA and MA in Printmaking from the University of Iowa and her BS in Human and Organizational Development and Art History from Vanderbilt University. Nicole served as the President of SGC International in 2016-18, the largest professional organization dedicated to scholarship in printmaking, book arts, and papermaking in North America.
She is represented by Long-Sharp Gallery and currently lives in Girona, Spain.
nicole.pietrantoni@gmail.com