Nicole Eisenman

Nicole Eisenman
Born1965 (age 5960)
Verdun, France
EducationRhode Island School of Design (BFA)
Known forRidykeulous
Notable work
  • Heading Down River on the USS J-Bone of an Ass (2017)
  • Procession (2019)
Awards

Nicole Eisenman (born 1965) is a French-born American artist known for her oil paintings and sculptures. She has been awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship (1996), the Carnegie Prize (2013), and has thrice been included in the Whitney Biennial (1995, 2012, 2019). On September 29, 2015, she won a MacArthur Fellowship 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 lives in Brooklyn.