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Nicolas Party

Biography

Born

Lausanne, Switzerland, 1980

Education

Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland, 2009

Lausanne School of Art, Lausanne, Switzerland, 2004

Solo Exhibitions

2025

Holburne Museum, 'Nicolas Party: Copper & Dust', Bath, UK

2024

The Warehouse, 'Nicolas Party: Ewe in the Field', Dallas TX
Hoam Museum of Art, 'Dust', Yongin, South Korea

Kaufmann Repetto, 'Seahorse', Milan, Italy

Group Exhibitions

2025

Malta International Contemporary Art Space, 'Milton Avery and his Influence on Contemporary Art', Floriana, Malta

Currier Museum of Art, 'Nicolas Party and Surrealism: An Artist’s Take on the Movement', Manchester NH

The FLAG Art Foundation, 'A Rose Is', New York NY
Galerie Gregor Staiger, 'Tribute to a Lake', Zurich, Switzerland

Musée Jenisch Vevey, 'Hommage à Félix Vallotton', Vevey, Switzerland

Centre Pompidou Metz, 'Copyists', Metz, France

2024

Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 'Two by Two, Together: Recent Additions to the MMFA's Collection', Montreal, Canada
Hepworth Wakefield, 'Forbidden Territories: 100 Years of Surreal Landscapes', Wakefield, UK
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, 'Infinite Regress: Mystical Abstraction from the Permanent Collection and Beyond', Kansas City MO
Aïshti Foundation/Palazzo Barberini, 'Effetto Notte: Nuovo Realismo Americano (Day for Night: New American Realism)', cur. Massimiliano Gioni, Flaminia Gennari Santori, Rome, Italy
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, 'Revolutions: Art from the Hirshhorn Collection, 1860–1960', Washington DC
Kunsthaus Zurich, 'Apropos Hodler', Zurich, Switzerland
M+, 'Shanshui: Echoes and Signals', Hong Kong

Public & Special Projects

2021

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, 'Draw the Curtain', Washington, D.C.

2020

RxArt, Los Angles Children’s Hospital, ‘Pipeline. Nicolas Party for Children’s Hospital Los Angeles’, Los Angeles CA

Bibliography

Monographs

2024

Young Kwak, June, Godfrey Larmon, Annie, Moynihan, Thomas, 'Nicolas Party. Dust', Seoul: Hoam Museum of Art, 2024, ill. (exh. cat.)

2022

Aquin, Stéphane, Ramade, Bénédicte, Lapointe, Pierre, 'Nicolas Party. L'heure mauve', Montreal: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 2022, ill. (exh. cat.)

Galansino, Arturo, Zanni, Annalisa (et al.), 'Nicolas Party, Triptych', Milan: Museo Poldi Pezzoli, 2022, ill. (exh. broch.)

Publications

2024

Clayton, Eleanor (ed.), 'Forbidden Territories. 100 Years of Surreal Landscapes', Wakefield: The Hepworth Wakefield, 2024, pp. 32, 57, ill. (exh. cat.)

Gianfreda, Sandra, Hug, Cathérine, 'Apropos Hodler. Aktuelle Blicke auf eine Ikone', Zurich: Kunsthaus Zurich, 2024, pp. 82, 151-152, ill. (exh. cat.)

2023

Jessen, Ina, Luckow, Dirk (eds.), 'Dix and the Present', Hamburg: Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Snoeck, 2023, pp. 124, 261, ill. (exh. cat.)
Salomon, Xavier F., 'Rosalba Carriera's Man in a Pilgrim's Costume', New York: The Frick Collection in association with D Giles Limited, 2023, ill.

Press

2025

Kyung-jin, Lee, 'Beauty created by little things', on: elle.co.kr, 2 January 2025, ill.

2024

Kennedy, Randy, 'Theh Meaning of the Sun. Nicolas Party at work in Korea' [interview], in: Ursula Magazine, Hauser & Wirth, Fall/Winter 2024, p. 152, ill.
gogoboi, 'Nicolas Party: Dust to Dust' [interview], in: W China, vol. 4, 2024, pp. 42-48, ill.
Kim Jiseon, 'Mask of Dust', in: Avenuel, 2024, pp. 108-113, ill.
Yoo, Chang-sun, 'Nicolas Party's murals disappearing into dust, and my life', on: hankyung.com, 11 October 2024, ill.
___, 'Nicolas Party's Pastel Parade Makes its Seoul Debut', on: ocula.com, 2 September 2024, ill.
Ghassemitari, Shawn, 'Nicolas Party Reflects on the Climate Emergency at the Leeum Museum', on: hypebeast.com, 29 August 2024, ill.
Grandchamp, Sybille, 'Bazaar s'évade : la côte amalfitaine et ses hôtels, tables secrètes et vues à couper le souffre (et la meilleure pizza du monde)', on: harpersbazaar.fr, 27 July 2024, ill.
Van Meter, William, 'How Nicolas Party Designed a Swimming Pool for a Glamorous, Art-Filled Amalfi Coast Hotel', on: news.artnet.com, 24 July 2024, ill.
Worthington, Lucrezia, 'A New Era of Contemporary Art at Le Sirenuse', on: coolhunting.com, 3 July 2024, ill.
Torcasso, David, 'Pool-Party', on: meter-magazin.ch, 27 June 2024, ill.
O'Dwyer, Jayne, 'Around the World in 10 Shows: Here Are the Exhibitions Worth Traveling for This Summer', on: culturedmag.com, 26 June 2024, ill.
Cochran, Sam, 'A Vibrant New Poolscape Dazzles at Famed Italian Hotel Le Sirenuse', on: architecturaldigest.com, 1 May 2024, ill.
The Paris Review, Paris, no. 247, Spring 2024, cover, ill.
Luquet-Gad, Ingrid, 'On the verge of extinction with painter Nicolas Party' [interview], on: artbasel.com/stories, 7 February 2024, ill.
Laster, Paul, 'Nicolas Party's Journey Through Art', on: ocula.com, 2 February 2024, ill.
Moschin, Claudio, 'Nicolas Party, il maestro del pastello' [video], on: swissinfo.ch, 22 January 2024