Nicole Eisenman
Nicole Eisenman
Lab Grant Resident
“If only some genre existed in which we could simultaneously indulge our fascination with performance, materiality, identity, citation, concrete language, institutional critique, and memes. But here, look, posters by Nicole Eisenman. Like frescoes, they are their material—in this case, paper—through-and-through, so that the luscious color doesn’t float on or scratch the surface but constitutes and defines it within the selfsame graphic seal.”
— Excerpt from Poster Syndrome by Matt Longabucco, Essay for Nicole Eisenman: Incelesbian, Exhibition catalogue, page 47, Co-published by Dieu Donné and Anton Kern Gallery, 2020.
About the Artist
Nicole Eisenman (b. 1965, Verdun, France) lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She is a MacArthur Foundation Fellow and was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2018. Her work was included in both the 2019 Venice Biennale and the 2019 Whitney Biennial. Recent solo exhibitions include Baden Baden Baden, at the Staatliche Kunsthalle in Baden-Baden, Germany; Dark Light, at Vielmetter Los Angeles; Dark Light, at Secession in Vienna, Austria; Al-ugh-ories, at the New Museum, New York; and Magnificent Delusion, at Anton Kern Gallery, New York. Having established herself as a painter, Nicole Eisenman has expanded her practice into the third dimension. (Source: Hauser & Wirth)
