Nicole Schonitzer

Nicole Schonitzer (b. 1994) is a visual artist from Chicago, Illinois. She holds a BA from Vassar College and an MFA in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Design. Her work has been shown in New York, NY, Chicago, IL, London, UK, Poughkeepsie, NY, and Providence, RI. She currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

Nicole Schonitzer’s work actualizes a space where formal abstraction and bodily narrative collide. In her constructed world, there is power in softness, impulsivity is celebrated, and tenderness rules. Her paintings address ways to touch and be touched. They’re sprayed and poured and scraped- all acts of spreading, all premeditated yet necessarily inarticulate moves. The touching of and within the paintings is messy in its intentionality —its consequences unforeseeable, its motive always joy.

Vassar College, BA
Rhode Island School of Design, MFA in Painting

Group Exhibitions
Contemporary Art Show, Art & Object vFairs, May 2022, Online
High Quality Final Hole: RISD MFA Painting Class of 2021, August 2021, Asya Geisberg Gallery, New York, NY
RISD Grad Show 2021, May - June 2021, Chace Center, RISD Museum, Providence, RI
Feminized, March - April 2021, Gelman Gallery, Providence, RI
Not My First Rodeo, November 2020 - February 2021, Sol Koffler Gallery, Providence, RI
Paint Triennial Exhibition, October 2019, Woods-Gerry Gallery, Providence RI
The Plant Show, July 2019, Ground Level Platform, Chicago IL
Reinvention II, October - November 2018, ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL
16th Annual Art on Cardboard Show, October 2018, Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago, IL
The Little Things Exhibition, September - October 2017, Dionne Victoria Studios, Chicago, IL
The Lost Artists Show, September 2017, The Art Colony, Chicago, IL
OPEN EYES Exhibition, June 2017 - July 2017, Open Center for the Arts, Chicago, IL
Vassar College Senior Exhibition, Spring 2016, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
Toxic Art Pop Up Exhibition, 2015, Vassar College Center, Poughkeepsie, NY
Queen Mary Visual Arts Collective 2015 Exhibition, 2015, Hundred Years Gallery, London, England