Background
Nicole Eisenman was born in 1965 in Verdun, France where her father was stationed as an Army psychiatrist. She grew up in Scarsdale, New York and graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1987.
Nicole Eisenman was born in 1965 in Verdun, France where her father was stationed as an Army psychiatrist. She grew up in Scarsdale, New York and graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1987.
Rhode Island School of Design.
Eisenman was a professor at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson from 2003 to 2009. Eisenman currently lives and works in Brooklyn. Her great-grandmother was Esther Hamerman.
Solo exhibitions Nicole Eisenman, (2007) Matrix 248, Berkeley Art Museum (2013) Dear Nemesis, Nicole Eisenman 1993–2013, Contemporary Art Museum Saint Louis (2014).
Dear Nemesis: Nicole Eisenman 1993–2013, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia (2014). Group exhibitions Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art (1995) Prospect.2 New Orleans (2011) Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art (2012) 2013 Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art (2013).
Manifesta10, The Hermitage Museum, Saint St. Petersburg (2014) New York City 1993: Experimental Jet Secretariat, Trash and Number Star, New Museum (2013) The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World, MoMA (2014) She was also the recipient of a 2015 MacArthur "genius grant." Also in 2015, she was named as one of The Forward 50.
She has been awarded the Guggenheim fellowship (1996), the Carnegie Prize (2013), and has twice been included in the Whitney Biennial (1995, 2012). On September 29th, 2015 she won the MacArthur "Genius Grant" award for "restoring the representation of the human form a cultural significance that had waned during the ascendancy of abstraction in the 20th century”. Eisenman has been awarded numerous grants and prizes including the Guggenheim Fellowship (1996), the Carnegie Prize, the Anonymous Was a Woman Award (2014) and the Louis Comfort Tiffany Grant (1995).
