66 x 76 x 5

Injekt with acrylic, hanbound into 6 accordion books

Nicole Pietrantoni (b. 1981) creates experimental artists’ books  prints  and installations. Her work uses print media to investigate facsimiles of the natural world and how printed matter produces desire.   She is the recipient of numerous awards including a Fulbright to Iceland  an Artist Trust Fellowship  a Larry Sommers Printmaking Fellowship  a Leifur Eiríksson Foundation Grant  the Manifest Prize  and a Graves Award for Excellence in Humanities Research and Teaching.      

Pietrantoni has been awarded artist residencies at Meta Open Arts  the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (Halifax  Canada)  Anderson Ranch Arts Center (Snowmass Village  CO)  R.A.R.O. Residency (Barcelona  Spain)  La Maldita Estampa (Barcelona  Spain) Cork Printmakers (Cork  Ireland)  and the Venice Printmaking Studio (Venice  Italy)  among others.   She has been a visiting artist and lecturer at over 40 institutions and her art has been in over 100 national and international exhibitions. Exhibition venues include solo exhibitions at the San Juan Island Museum of Art (San Juan Island  WA)  the Coos Museum of Art (Coos Bay  OR)  the Kimball Arts Center (Park City  UT)  the Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia (Athens  GA)  and the Manifest Gallery (Cincinatti  OH). Group venues include Galleri Heike Arndt (Berlin  Germany)  The Ashurst Emerging Artist Prize Shortlist Exhibition (London  UK)  the San Francisco Center for the Book (San Francisco  CA)  American University Museum (Washington  DC)  Lia Libro de Artista (Guadalajara  Mexico)  the IMPACT International Printmaking Conference (Bristol  United Kingdom and Santander  Spain)  and 23 Sandy Gallery (Portland  Oregon).  Her artwork is in collections including Yale University  the Library of Congress  Washington State Arts Commission  Zahed University-United Arab Emirates  University of Iowa Museum of Art  and the Zuckerman Museum of Art. Pietrantoni’s work has been included in publications including Art in Print  The Washington Post  and featured in the book American Printmakers (Schiffer Publishing). 

Pietrantoni received her MFA and MA in Printmaking from the University of Iowa and her BS in Human and Organizational Development and Art History from Vanderbilt University. Nicole served as the President of SGC International in 2016-18  the largest professional organization dedicated to scholarship in printmaking  book arts  and papermaking in North America.      

She is represented in the US by Long-Sharp Gallery and currently lives in Girona  Spain.