Statement
I am a representational artist specializing in narrative and symbolic paintings and hand-pulled intaglio prints. In my current body of work, I'm exploring the triangular relationship between my sense of self, my perception of what "home" means, and the physical spaces and environments that I've occupied throughout my life. My imagery often involves structures, spaces and objects that represent a story or dream from a specific period in my life. They are places and things that evoke strong emotions like love, loneliness, joy, or fear. I'm often unable to physically visit or return to the things I'm rendering, so in the studio I work from memory and cobbled references.
Although memory is always unreliable and changing by nature, I'm interested in the potency of my own sensory memories, and the way that light, color and the smell of the air stick in my mind. These concrete sensory ideas are always at the core of my practice.
Resume/CV
Education
2018 Certificate, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), Philadelphia, PA
2017 BFA, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Solo Exhibitions
2023 Folklore, Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2021 Thresholds, Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2018 Places Called Home, The Rouse Company Foundation Gallery, Columbia, MD
2015 Recent Works by Nicole Parker, Fringe HAIR + ART, Philadelphia, PA
Group Exhibitions
2025 Phantasia, The Delaware Contemporary, Wilmington, DE
2024 10 x 10, Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, Hyattsville, MD
Summer Playlist, Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2023 10 x 10, Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, Hyattsville, MD
Little Ink, Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, Hyattsville, MD
Atlanta Print Biennial, Kai Lin Art Gallery, Atlanta, GA
MashUp: Annual Members Exhibition, Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, Hyattsville MD
14th Biennial International Miniature Print Exhibition, Center for Contemporary Printmaking,
Norwalk, CT
2022 Nocturne, Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
10 x 10, Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, Hyattsville, MD
Leave Quietly, Mirabo Press, Buffalo, NY
Don’t Feed the Art: Woodmere’s Animal Menagerie, Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA
2021 10 x 10, Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, Hyattsville, MD
Relief, Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, Hyattsville, MD
Disrupted Realism, Buckham Gallery, Flint, MI
2020 PAFA Alumni Exhibition, Borrelli’s Chestnut Hill Gallery & Frame Shoppe, Philadelphia, PA
9 for 19, First Street Gallery, Chelsea, NY
2019 10 x 10, Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, Hyattsville, MD
Modern and Contemporary Landscape, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Small and Smaller, SITE: Brooklyn Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Regional Juried Spring Open Exhibition, Wayne Arts Center, Wayne, PA
Innovation and Vitality: 150 Years of Alumni from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts,
Avery Galleries, Bryan Mawr, PA
2018 The Art of Collecting, Avery Galleries, Bryn Mawr, PA
117th Annual Student Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
5 to Watch, Avery Galleries, Bryn Mawr, PA
2017 Emerging Artists Exhibition, The Philadelphia Sketch Club, Philadelphia, PA
116th Annual Student Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Way of Light, FMC Tower, Philadelphia PA
2016 Crosscurrents, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
115th Annual Student Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2015 114th Annual Student Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, P
It’s The Thought That Counts, Gallery 128, Pennsylvania Academy Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Been There, Done That, Gallery 128, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
MERGE: Philly Art Schools Juried Exhibition, Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, PA
2014 Student Exhibition, Howard Community College, Columbia, MD
Awards & Residencies
2022 Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant, Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation
Artist in Residence, Arquetopia Foundation, Puebla, Mexico
2019 Keyholder Resident in Printmaking, Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, Hyattsville, MD
Artists Magazine Annual Art Competition, 2nd place in Landscape Division
2018 The Gross McCleaf Gallery Prize, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
The Lance Roy Lauffer Memorial Prize, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
The Louis and Estelle Pearson Memorial Prize for Landscape with Figures, Pennsylvania Academy
of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
The Woodmere Art Museum Purchase Prize, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts,
Philadelphia, PA
The Fine Arts Venture Fund Awards, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2017 The Richard Von Hess Travel Award, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
The Jimmy C. Leuders Prize in Painting, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
The Linda Lee Alter Award, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2016 The Cecelia Beaux Prize in Portraiture, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
The Lambert and Emma Cadwalader Prize in Landscape, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts,
Philadelphia, PA
The Arthur De Costa Painting Prize, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2015 The Color Woodcut Purchase Prize, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Private Collections
The Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA
The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Avery Galleries, Bryn Mawr, PA
The Private Collection of Linda Lee Alter, Philadelphia, PA
The Private Collection of Vesna and Howard Sacks, Philadelphia, PA
The Private Collection of Rebecca Segall, Philadelphia, PA