Awareness: Nicole Eisenman

Nicole Eisenman is a French-American artist living in Brooklyn New York. She works in painting, drawing, sculpture, and instillations, and her work typically depicts human subjects mixed with humor, anxiety, and social commentary. Her work often explores her emotions and anxieties, as well as commentary on gender and sexuality (Eisenman herself is lesbian), and social commentary regarding politics and history. Her works are usually centered around human figures in large groups or social events, each with exaggerated features, colors, expressions, and poses. She calls upon the techniques and styles of established masters as well as more contemporary art and even popular culture like comics. She has been active since 1990, and received her BFA in 1987 from the Rhode Island School of Design.

https://www.hauserwirth.com/artists/26346-nicole-eisenman/

Major Exhibitions:

Solo Exhibitions

2014	Dear Nemesis: Nicole Eisenman 1993-2013	Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA
2016	Al-ugh-ories	New Museum, New York, NY, USA
2018	Baden Baden Baden	Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden, Germany
2020	Sturm und Drang	The Contemporary Austin, Austin, TX, USA
2021	Giant Without a Body	Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, Norway
2023-24	What Happened	Museum Brandhorst, Munich, Germany → Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK → MCA Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
2025	Plastered	Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY, USA

Group Exhibitions

2019	58th Venice Biennale	Venice, Italy
2019	2019 Whitney Biennial	Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA
2023	Dix and the Present	Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, German
2024	The Anxious Eye: German Expressionism and Its Legacy	National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., USA

Beer Garden with AK, 2009

Procession, 2019

Another Green World, 2015

I really enjoy how bright and exciting her art is while still dealing with some very important and heavy subjects. I also like the way she uses figures and large groups in her work as that is something that I would like to work on with my work. I also find the way that she inserts these very large groups into small everyday settings and has them participating in everyday activities, and the way she uses those settings and actions to portray deeper meaning. Overall I really enjoy her work and subject matter and I would like to draw inspiration from her work to incorporate certain aspects like her thematic meaning and large scale into my work.