Nicole Basilone

Bio/CV: Nicole Basilone (b.1988, NJ, USA) completed undergraduate studies at Pratt Munson Williams Proctor(2009) and graduated from Maryland Institute college of Art and Design with a Bachelors of Fine Arts in Painting and minor in Art History (2011). Past residencies include: Château Orquevaux (2018) and The Vermont Studio Center (2012). Her work has been exhibited in major US cities Detroit (MI),Chicago (IL),Oakland (CA),Philadelphia(PA),New York City(NY) and Baltimore (MD). In 2018 she landed her first solo exhibition at Mimi and Hill design studios in Westfield, NJ. In 2020 and 2021 She co-curated and exhibited at Spring Break Art show which was featured in Hyperallergic, Two Coats of Paint and Whitewall magazine. She lives and works in Jersey City, NJ.

Artist Statement: The work I create is a synthesis of imagined and real landscapes. My work evolves from observation. Often my finished paintings are like collages, gathered from sketches I have done in “plein air” and mix them with fragments from my memory and imagination. My vision catalogs the emotional response triggered by earths’ abundant resources and ecosystems. The variety of marks in my paintings are about the speed of nature, the mood of the land and the shapes of the plants. The completed works reflect a fusion of real and imagined landscapes with occasional nods to historical works of art.

Selected Solo Exhibitions: 2019 Anomalies In Pink, Mimi and Hill Design Studios, Westfield, NJ

Selected Group Exhibitions: 2022 Future Perfect: Virtual Exhibition, Kates-Ferri Projects, New York, NY 2021 Full Circle, WoArt, Online Exhibition, Dogmatic Magic, Spring/Break Art Show, NYC,NY, New Contemporaries, Dodomu Gallery, Online Exhibitio, FRC 11, Flat Rate Contemporary, Online Exhibition, Flat File, Deanna Evans Projects, Brooklyn, NY 2020 World Series, San Diego, CA, Personal Space, Collective 131, Hoboken, NJ, Unnatural Intimacy, Spring/Break Art Show, NY, NY, Flat File, Flat rate Contemporary, Online exhibition 2019 Harmonic Tremor, Women’s Work Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY, Alumni Exhibition, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, NY, Under the Magnifying Glass, Gallery Cubed, Brooklyn, NY, GIFC, Dateline, Denver, CO, In the Spirit, 68 Jay Street, Brooklyn, NY, Flat file, Flat Rate Contemporary, Online exhibition 2018 Salon Show, The Factory at LIC Arts Open, LIC,NY, Diaries, Mooch Gallery, New York, NY, Summer Heat, Ortega Y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn, NY, GIFC, P.2 Gallery, Oakland, CA, 144 Space, Gestalt Projects, Santa Monica, CA, GIFC, Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL, GIFC, Fisher Parrish, Brooklyn, NY, Under, Scarab Club, Detroit, MI, Solo Show, Mimi and Hill, Westfeild, NJ, Black and White, Site: Brooklyn Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 30 under 30, Virdian Artist Inc, NY, NY 2017 The Other Art Fair, Brooklyn Expo Center, Brooklyn, NY, Group show, Wayward Social, Brooklyn, NY 2012 Commencement Exhibition, Main Building, MICA, Baltimore, MD

Awards: 2018 Château Orquevaux, AIR Grant 2012 Vermont Studio Center, Artist Grant 2008-2011 MICA, Dean's List, Baltimore, Maryland, MICA, Merit Based Scholarship, Baltimore, Maryland  2007-2008 Presidents List, Utica, New York, Presidential Merit Based Scholarship, Utica, NewYork

Residencies: 2021 Vermont Studio Center Residency 2018 Château Orquevaux Residency

Press: Whitewall Magazine, Hyperallergic, A Women’s Thing, Art Uncovered Podcast

Collections: Carla Shen Private Collection

Social: @nicole_basilone