NICKI GREEN

Nicki Green is a transdisciplinary artist working primarily in clay. Her sculptures, ritual objects and various flat works explore topics of history preservation, conceptual ornamentation and aesthetics of otherness. Often constructing heavily ornamented painted glaze surfaces and experimental, organic building techniques, Green explores material and object integrity by utilizing transness as a lens with which to look at the world.

Green’s work is in the permanent collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), London, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles CA, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA), Berkeley CA, Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris, France, among others. Green has exhibited her work internationally, notably at the New Museum, New York; Musée d’Art Moderne in Paris, France, The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, in the 16th La Biennale de Lyon, Lyon, France, and the Museu de Arte de São Paulo, Brasil. She has contributed texts to numerous publications including Transgender Studies Quarterly, Fermenting Feminism, Copenhagen and The Center for Arts Research Publications, University of Oregon, Eugene. Green is a 2022 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award Winner, a 2022 Nancy Graves Foundation Grantee, and was a 2020 Art Matters Fellow. In 2019, she was a recipient of an Arts/Industry Residency from the John Michael Kohler Art Center. Originally from New England, she completed her BFA in sculpture from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2009 and her MFA in Art Practice from the University of California, Berkeley in 2018. Green is an Assistant Professor of Ceramic Art at Alfred University.

Nicki Green, Double Temple with Floating Ribs, , 2023, Glazed stoneware, 40 x 47 x 26 in

Nicki Green, Morel Figure, 2016, Glazed earthenware with felt, 41" x 30" x 21"

Nicki Green, Morel Figure (details), , 2016, Glazed earthenware with felt, 41" x 30" x 21"

Nicki Green, Hybrid Vessel 6 (jar purple), , 2024, Glazed earthenware, 11 x 11 x 10 in