BIO
Born in Santa Fe, NM, Nicola López currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.  Through her work in printmaking, drawing and installation, López describes and reconfigures our contemporary—primarily urban—landscape.  Although much of her imagery refers to familiar aspects of our human-built environment, the actual layout and configuration of the landscapes she describes often deny gravity and Cartesian logic.  López hopes that her vision of the world describes, and might even inspire, the sense of vertigo, wonder, fear, thrill and generally shocked-and-awed overload that is so much a part of our contemporary world.
Her interest in describing ‘place’ stems both from traveling, studying and working in other countries, including Mexico, Peru and Morocco, and from her undergraduate studies as an anthropology major at Columbia University, where she received her BA in 1998.  In 2002 López attended the Skowhegan School for Painting and Sculpture in Maine and in 2004 received her MFA in visual arts from Columbia University, as well as an MFA Grant from the Joan Mitchell Foundation.
Her work has been exhibited throughout the USA and internationally and has been included in exhibitions at several museums, including MoMA in NY, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in LA, and the Nerman Museum at the Johnson County Community College in Overland Park, Kansas.