Paulette Nichols

She was born as a biological male in the late 60’s to Walt and Moira Nichols, two bright-eyed kids from the upper San Joaquin valley in California. Walt was the son of two Belarussian immigrants while Moira was the daughter of Irish people.

Paulette grew up in Stockton, California, a port city in the San Joaquin delta. She grew up playing soccer, making and flying remote control gliders, drawing, being a negligent pet owner to her parakeets, chameleon, alligator lizard and frog. She got her amateur radio license when she was in the third grade, but she never used it to go on air.

She had a paper route for a couple of years and used the money she made from that to go golfing and to buy a bike. She loved golfing at Swensen Park golf course in Stockton. It was a public course.

She started taking piano lessons when she was 11 years old. Her teacher thought she might be a reincarnated bebopper because she made bebop melodies somewhat naturally. She played her brother’s records in High School. He had Pat Metheny’s As Falls Wichita, So falls Wichita Falls, Todd Rundgren’s Back to the Bars and others, Emerson Lake and Palmer’s Greatest Hits. She started playing guitar when she was 16. She liked the Tubes a lot, mostly the first a...

San Francisco State University 1994 BA Music.

Group Art shows

2020 De Young Open, De Young Museum, California

2019 Wealth Management, Los Angeles, California.

2019 Blinky 40th Anniversary, Free Range, Los Angeles, California.

2019 The Skidda Show, Oakland, California.

2017 Exquisite Pittoresco, Keystone Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2016 Art Basil LA, Los Angeles, CA

2015 Art Basil LA, Los Angeles, CA

2014 Interstate Projects Brooklyn, NY group show, curated by Important Projects.

2014 Erin and Paulette’s Art Show, Royal Nonesuch Gallery, Oakland, CA

2014 Elect Emily Wick and Paulette Nichols for Art, Rise Above Gallery, Oakland, CA

Solo Art Shows

2016 What Century are These Paintings From? Hayes Valley Art Works, San Francisco, CA


Video

2015 Paulette Leads Oakland in Chomolungma Expedition

2016 The Jeffrey Vallance Museum Interview Film


Residencies

2016 Hayes Valley Art Works, San Francisco, CA