Nicola Lopez (b. 1975)
Born Sante Fe, New Mexico
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2020 Haunted at Albuquerque Museum; Albuquerque, NM
2019 Apariciones at Arróniz Arte Contemporáneo; Mexico
Hybrids at Elizabeth Leach Gallery; Portland, OR
Nicola López: Parasites, Prosthetics, Parallels, and Partners at Tamarind Institute Gallery
2018 Relics, Fibs, Trash + Treasures at Hawthorn Contemporary; Milwaukee, WI
2017 Big Windows: Skin : Portals at Jacob Lewis Gallery; New York, NY
2016 In Gentle Defiance of Gravity and Form at Museum of Contemporary Art; Jacksonville, FL
2014 One Valley Over, a World Apart at Arróniz Arte Contemporáneo; México D.F., México
Forecasting an Impossibly Possible Tomorrow at Elizabeth Leach Gallery; Portland, OR
Half-Life at Oregon College of Arts and Crafts; Portland, OR
2013 Land of Illusion at Pace Prints Gallery, New York, NY
2012 Invasores e Impostores at La Calera, Oaxaca, Mexico
Notes on the Tower at Tamarind Institute Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
2011 Intervals: Nicola López at Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum,New York, NY
Marañas at Arroniz Arte Contemporeneo, Mexico DF, Mexico
Structural Detours at Pace Prints Gallery, New York, NY
2010 Small Transformations at Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
Nicola López: Urban Transformations at Mesaros Galleries at
West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV
2009 Shadowland at Caren Golden Fine Art, New York, NY
Nicola López: Urban Transformations at Chazen Museum, Madison, WI
2008 Tangle at Cruz, Santa Fe, NM
2007 Transformation City at Pace Prints, Chelsea, NY
2006 OverGrowth at Caren Golden Fine Art, New York, NY
2005 Vertigo at Caren Golden Fine Art, New York, NY
2003 Maps and Other Myths at LACS Gallery at SUNY, Stony Brook, NY
1999 Rescatando la Historia at Museo de Arte Contempornáeo, Cusco, Perú
Transplantes at Taller de Manuel, Cusco Perú
Selected Group Exhibitions
2020 DRAWN: Concept and Craft at The Southeast Center for Contemporary Art; Winston-Salem, NC
Trinity: Reflections on the Bomb” Albuquerque Museum; Albuquerque, NM
Selections from Trinity at Albuquerque Museum; Albuquerque, NM
2019 Pulled in Brooklyn at International Print Center New York; NY, NY
2018 Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder at LeRoy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY
Dialogues in Printmaking atMonmouth Museum, Lindcroft, NJ
42/18 at LeRoy Neiman Gallery, LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies, Columbia University, New York, NY
Ten Years: The Cameron Family Print Project at Middlebury College Museum of Art; Middlebury, VT
2017 Call and Response at Jacksonville Museum of Contemporary Art; Jacksonville, FL
Do We Dream Under the Same Sky at LeRoy Neiman Gallery; Columbia University, New York, NY
2016 The Future Is Chrome at Taimiao Art Gallery, Beijing Working People’s Culture Palace; Beijing, China
Moving Prints: Suspended Animation at International Print Center of New York; NY, NY
The Other: Nurturing A New Ecology in Printmaking at MOCA Jacksonville; Jacksonville, FL
2015 Trienial Poli/Grafica de San Juan at Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña; San Juan, Puerto Rico
LIFT: Contemporary Printmaking in the Third Dimension” Knoxville Museum of Art; Knoxville, TN
2014 DRAW at The Inside-Out Art Museum - Beijing and Dali Contemporary Art Museum; Yunan, China
2013 Summer Mixer at Joshua Liner Gallery, New York, NY
Biennale Online 2013 Online Exhibition curated by Jan Hoet
Drawings and Prints: Selections from the Permanent
Collection at Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
2012 Following the Line: Contemporary Drawings from the Collection of Francine Bishop
Good and David Horvitz at Girl’s Club, Fort Lauderdale, FL
Inside Out 2012 at The Inside-Out Museum, Beijing, China
Space Invaders at Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY
Pasiones Contempornáneas: Arte Americano,
Europeo y Latinoamericano de la Collección
Serapión y Belk at Museo de Arte de Pone, Ponre, PR
Apertura 01: Visiones Plurales sobre una Violencia Común at
Instituto de Artes Gráphicas de Oaxaca (IAGO), Oaxaca, Mexico
From the Ground Up at Paul Mesaros Gallery At
University of West Virginia, Morgantown, WV
New Mexico: 100 Years of Art at Las Cruces Museum of Art,
Las Cruces, Mexico
2011 Full Fathom Five at Jenkins Johnson, New York, NY
Pressing Ideas: 50 Years of Women’s Lithographs from Tamarind at
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
Shifting Borders / In Transit; Of Bridges and Borders Phase III at Centro
Cultural de Espana en Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Fractured Earth at Lesley Heller Workspace, New York, NY
Impressive Stones at Finnish National Gallery;
Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
2010 Exquisite at 222 Shelby St. Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Ink: New Trends in Contemporary Printmaking at Center for
Contemporary Art, Sacramento, CA
Caligrafias Urbanas at Museo de la Ciudad, Mexico DF, Mexico
Bad Boys, Magic Ladies, and Timeless Masters at
Morgan Conservatory, Cleveland, OH
Raw State at 222 Shelby St. Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Tamarind TouchstonesL Fabulous at Fifty at University of
New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM
Estampas, Independencia y la Revolución at Museo
National de la Estampa, Mexico DF, Mexico
Publisher’s Showcase: Tandem Press at Pace Prints Chelsea, New York, NY
Spring Thaw at Chiaroscuro Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Does the Angle Between Two Walls Have a Happy Ending?,
Federica Schiavo Gallery, Rome, Italy
Oblique/Acute at Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, Brattleboro, VT
Phantom Sightings at Museo del Barrio, New York, NY
2009 Una Intervención Sobre el Siglo XVII at Centro de Cultura Casa Lamm, Mexico City, Mexico
Party at Chris’s House: curate by Phong Bui at Janet Kurnatowski, New York, NY
New Prints 2009/Autumn at Leonard Pearlstein Gallery at Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA
Next Wave Festival at Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY
Futurescape at Contemporary Art Galleries at University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
Embrace! At Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
With Help from our Friends: New Acquisitions to the Davison Art Center
Collection at Davidson Art Center, Weslyan University, Middletown, CT
Summertime 09 at Rebecca Ibel Gallery, Cleveland, OH
Fresh From Chelsea at University Gallery, UF College, Gainsville, FL
Invasive at School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Phantom Sightings at Museo Alameda, San Antonio TX
Esto Es Aquello at Arróniz Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico
A Fragile Reality at Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
2008 Phantom Sightings at Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico DF, Mexico
Claiming Space: Mexican Americans in U.S. Cities at Stanlee and
Gerald Rubin Center for the Visual Arts, University of Texas, El Paso, TX
INprint at SCA Contemporary Art, Albuquerque, NM
Phantom Sightings Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
In jeder Sprache das Gleiche anders at Dina4 Projkte, Berlin, Germany
Future Tense: Reshaping the Landscape at Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY
2007 The Orpheus Selection at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY
Consumption Junction at Columbus College of Art & Design, Columbus, OH
American Soil at Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS
Tamarind Institute: Creation, Education, Collaboration at Governor’s Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Sicalipsis Art at N2 Galeria, Barcelona, Spain
Landscape Architect at Arts Center of the Capital Region, Troy, NY
The Art & Artifice of Science at The Fine Arts Museum Santa Fe, Albuquerque, NM
2006 Globablization an Its Side Effects at Espacio 1414, San Juan, PR
This is That at Arroniz Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, Mexico
Scenic Overlook at Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, NM
Works on Paper at Rebecca Ibel Gallery, Columbus, OH
Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA at CUE Art Foundation, New York, NY
Paper Cuts at Voges + Partner Galerie, Frankfurt, Germany
Fragile at Voges + Partner Galeria, Frankfurt, Germany
Drawing Conclusions on the Wall at Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, Orange, CA
Since 2000: Printmaking Now at Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
The (S) Files at Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR
Activator Bates College Museum, Lewiston, Maine
Seeing Is Believing at Bronx River Art Center, Bronx, NY
2005 The (S) Files / The Selected Files at El Museo del Barrio. New York, NY
Swallow Harder: Selections from the Ben and Aileen Krohn Collection at The Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA
10th National Drawing Invitational at Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, Arkansas
Dreaming of a More Better Future at Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH
Hot Town Summer in the City at Caren Golden Fine Art, New York, NY
Nicola López / John Copeland (two-person exhibit) at Irvine Contemporary Art, Washington, DC
Greater New York 2005 at PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Queens, NY
Micro Universe: Visions of the Artist’s Mind at The Lab Gallery; NY, NY
2004 Merry at Sideshow, Brooklyn, NY
Saturación II (two-person exhibit) at Galería Biblioteca Lino Picaseno,
UNAM, Ciudad de México, México
SCOPE Miami 2004, Miami, FL
Desire Lines at Fusebox, Washington, DC
After Goya at LeRoy Neiman Gallery,
Columbia University, New York, NY
Atravesando Fronteras at El Museo Cultural, Santa Fe, NM
Martha and Me at Gallery OneTwentyEight, New York, NY
Columbia University MFA Thesis Show 2004 at Columbia University, New York, NY
Freehand at Marvelli Lab, Brooklyn, NY
Object of Desire at LeRoy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY
SuperSalon at Samson Projects, Boston, MA
2003 Merry at Sideshow, Brooklyn, NY
Saturación (two-person exhibit) at Instituto de Artes Gráficos de Oaxaca, Oaxaca, México
Dress Me Up at SOIL Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
First-Year MFA Exhibition at Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery,
Columbia University, New York, NY
2002 Merry Merry at Sideshow, Brooklyn, NY
Procession at LeRoy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY
Myth and Hybrid at LeRoy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY
Bon a Tirer at Brooklyn Front Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Artist Books at Holland Tunnel, Brooklyn, NY
In Xóchitl In Cuicatl: Flor y Canto: Reflections from Nuevo México
2001 Holiday Group Show at Sideshow, Brooklyn, NY
Artist Books and Folios at LeRoy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY
Made in Brooklyn at S. Cono Pizzeria, Brooklyn, NY
Brewster Project Site-specific Arts Event, Brewster, NY
Art & Performance by Women at Sideshow, Brooklyn, NY
We Love Our Customers at Consulate General of the Republic of Hungary, New York, NY
Artists’ Books at LeRoy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY
2000 Territorios Colindantes at El Museuo Cultural, Santa Fe, NM
1999 Muestra Pictórica Colectiva de la Sociedad de Artistas del Cusco
Invasores at Taller de Manuel, Cusco, Perú
Solitary Vices at Site 21/21, Albuquerque, NM
1997 Untitled (two-person exhibit) at Postcrypt Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY
Awards
2011 Bard Research Fund Grant, Bard College, Annandale-On-Hudson, NY
2005 NYFA Fellowship in Drawing/Printmaking/Book Arts
2004 Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA Graduate Award
Mortimer Frank Traveling Fellowship, Columbia University, NY
1998 Mortimer Hays-Brandeis Travelling Fellowship, Brandeis University, MA
Residencies
2012 La Calera Residency, Oaxaca, Mexico
The Inside-Out Residency, Beijing, China
2010 New Mexico Small Business Assistance Program, NM (Through 2011)
2007 La Curtiduria, Oaxaca, Mexico (Through 2011)
2006 Headlands Center for the Arts (Project Space), Sausalito, CA
2004 Assilah Summer Moussem Artist Residency, Assilah, Mexico