Nicolas Party
Born 1980, Switzerland; Lives and works in New York.
Education
| 2009 | MA Fine Art, Glasgow School of Art |
| 2004 | BA Fine Art, Lausanne School of Art |
Solo Exhibitions
| 2023 | ‘When Tomorrow Comes’, Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden |
| ‘Swamp’, Hauser & Wirth, 542 West 22nd Street, New York | |
| ‘Cretaceous’, The Modern Institute, 3 Aird's Lane, Glasgow | |
| ‘Cascade’, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels | |
| 2022 | ‘Red Forest’, Hauser & Wirth, Hong Kong |
| ‘Nicolas Party: Triptych’, Poldi Pezzoli Museum, Milan | |
| ‘L’heure mauve’, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal | |
| 2021 | ‘Stage Fright’, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hannover |
| ‘Boilly’, Le Consortium, Dijon | |
| ‘Rovine (Ruins)’, MASI Lugano, Lugano | |
| ‘Heads and Cave (Têtes et Grotte)’, Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp, Cully | |
| 2020 | ‘Sottobosco’, Hauser & Wirth, Los Angeles |
| 2019 | ‘Grotto’, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels |
| ‘Marble Ghosts’, Marble House , Newport | |
| ‘Polychrome’, The Modern Institute, 14–20 Osborne Street, Glasgow | |
| 2018 | ‘Arches’, M WOODS, Beijing |
| ‘Heads’, Gregor Staiger, Zurich | |
| ‘Magritte Parti’, Magritte Museum, Brussels | |
| ‘Head’, The Modern Institute, Aird's Lane Green Space | |
| ‘Pietra Dura’, Kaufmann Repetto, Milan | |
| 2017 | ‘Speakers’, Modern Art Oxford |
| ‘Dinner for 24 Sheep’, The Arnold and Marie Schwartz Gallery Met, New York | |
| ‘Pastel’, KARMA, New York | |
| ‘sunrise, sunset’, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC | |
| ‘Three Seasons’, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels | |
| 2016 | ‘Nicolas Party in the Garden Room’, Palazzo Antinori, Florence |
| ‘Hammer Projects: Nicolas Party’, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles | |
| ‘Three Cats’, The Modern Institute, 3 Aird's Lane, Glasgow | |
| Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas | |
| ‘Cimaise’, CAN: Centre d'art Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel | |
| ‘Mezzotint’, Glasgow Print Studio, Glasgow | |
| 2015 | ‘Snails in Notting Hill’, RISE Projects, London (With Jesse Wine) |
| ‘Snail's Chapel’, Kaufmann Repetto, Milan | |
| ‘Panorama’, SALTS, Basel | |
| ‘Boys and Pastel’, Inverleith House, Edinburgh | |
| ‘Two Naked Women’, Kaufmann Repetto, Milan | |
| ‘Pastel et nu’, Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris | |
| 2014 | ‘Trunks and Faces’, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster |
| ‘Landscape’, Kunsthall Stavanger, Stavanger, Norway | |
| ‘Pastel’, Gregor Staiger, Zurich | |
| ‘Carrot Stairs’, David Dale Gallery, Glasgow (Permanent Commission) | |
| 2013 | ‘Still Life oil paintings and Landscape watercolours’, The Modern Institute, 14–20 Osborne Street, Glasgow |
| ‘Cully Jazz’, Davel 14, Cully | |
| 2012 | ‘Dinner for 24 Dogs’, Salon 94 Freemans, New York |
| ‘Still Lifes and Big Naked Women’, Gregor Staiger, Zurich | |
| ‘Still Life, Stones and Elephants’, Swiss Institute, New York | |
| 2011 | ‘'Charlotte' with Stephane Devidal’, Doll Espace D'Art Contemporain, Lausanne |
| ‘Still Life, Gold and Peeling Paint’, Remap 3, Athens | |
| ‘Dinner for 24 Elephants’, Upstairs at The Modern Institute Osborne Street, Glasgow | |
| ‘Elephants at the Woodmill’, The Woodmill, London | |
| 2010 | ‘New Work Scotland’, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh |
| ‘Teapots and Sausages’, Intermedia, Glasgow | |
| ‘Teapots, Bread and Sausages’, La Placette, Lausanne | |
| ‘Elephants, spoons and sausage rolls’, Le Rez de Chaussee, Glasgow |
Group Exhibitions
| 2024 | ‘SYMMETRICAL SPACE POPS’, Galerie Gregor Staiger, Zurich |
| 2023 | ‘TWENTY-NINE’, Thomas Dane Gallery, London |
| ‘2023 Fall Preview’, Baldwin Contemporary, London | |
| ‘Into Another World’, The Level & Co. gallery, New York | |
| ‘X PINK 101’, X Museum, Beijing | |
| 2022 | ‘The Love of Print’, Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow |
| ‘To be a giant and keep quiet about it’, Margot Samel, New York | |
| ‘Artists Inspired by Music: Interscope Reimagined’, LACMA, Los Angeles | |
| 2021 | ‘Eau de Vallotton’, Tif Sigfrids Gallery, New York |
| ‘Hans Emmenegger’, Fondation de l'Hermitage | |
| ‘The Tenth Anniversary’, ARTFLYER, Athens | |
| ‘and I will wear you in my heart of heart’, FLAG Art Foundation, New York | |
| ‘yes. this is how we pierce the vault of heaven’, Gregor Staiger, Zurich | |
| 2020 | ‘Al filo de la navaja ( On the razor's edge)’, Museo Jumex, Mexico City, |
| ‘Biennale Gherdëina 7 — a breath? a name? — the ways of worldmaking’, Ortisei, Val Gardena | |
| ‘(Nothing But) Flowers’, KARMA, New York | |
| ‘Shall und Rauch’, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich | |
| ‘vent’anni - twenty years’, Kaufmann Repetto, Milan | |
| 2019 | ‘Away in the Hill’, GRIMM, New York |
| 2018 | ‘Nightfall’, Mendes Wood DM, Brussels |
| ‘Use Your Illusion’, Herald St, London | |
| ‘The Biennial of Painting’, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium | |
| ‘Vous me rappelez quelqu’un’, FRAC Lorraine, France | |
| ‘Pastels, du 16e au 21 siècle’, Fondation de l'Hermitage | |
| ‘The Land We Live In — The Land We Left Behind’, Hauser and Wirth, London | |
| ‘Open House’, Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco | |
| 2017 | ‘Wie werden wir uns wiedererkennen’, Künstlerhaus Bremen |
| ‘La Vie simple — Simplement la vie’, Fondation Vincent Van Gogh, Arles | |
| 2016 | ‘These Strangers... Painting and People’, SMAK, Ghent |
| ‘Sorcières et Escargots’, CAN Center d'art Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel (Collaboration CAN – NIFFF Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival) | |
| ‘VITAMINBOMBE Früchtebilder von Picasso bis Warhol’, Kunsthalle Emden | |
| 2015 | ‘Full House’, Shanaynay, Paris |
| ‘Tiger Tiger’, Salon 94, New York | |
| ‘STILL-LIFE Remix, Antinori Art Project’, Antinori nel Chianti Classico, Cantina del Bargino | |
| ‘Prix Mobilière’, artgenève Art Fair, Geneva | |
| 2014 | ‘Three Elephant's Day’, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn (Performance with Serge Vuille) |
| ‘I’m a Painting’, Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn | |
| ‘I'm So Green’, Natalia Hug Gallery, Cologne | |
| 2013 | ‘/prospekt/ Funktion / Disfunktion — Kunstzentrum Glasgow’, Neues Museum, Nuremberg |
| ‘Uri Aran, JWDB, Nicolas Party’, Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York | |
| ‘40/40’, Glasgow Print Studio, Glasgow | |
| ‘Just What Is Not Is Possible’, Museum Folkwang, Essen | |
| ‘IHRE GESCHICHTE(N)’, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn | |
| ‘157 Days of Sunshine’, The Bothy Project at the Walled Garden, Glasgow | |
| 2012 | ‘CARPETS OF DISTINCTION’, Dovecot Studios, Edinburgh (Produced by Panel) |
| ‘The Best of Times’, Gregor Staiger, Zurich | |
| ‘Allez-y’, R4, Ile Seguin, Paris | |
| ‘'Arrives In Starting' with Stephane Devidal’, The Duchy Gallery (offsite), Glasgow (Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art 2012) | |
| Independent, New York (Art fair) | |
| 2011 | ‘Painting Show’, Eastside Projects, Birmingham (Curated by Sophie von Hellerman & Gavin Wade) |
| ‘Poster Club’, Eastside Projects, Birmingham (with the Poster Club) | |
| ‘Poster Chaud’, Glasgow Print Studio, Glasgow (with the Poster Club) | |
| ‘Blueprint for a Bogey’, GOMA, Glasgow (With Corin Sworn and Ciara Philips) | |
| ‘Elephants at The Royal Standard’, The Royal Standard, Liverpool | |
| ‘Draw in’, Travelling Gallery, Scotland (Edinburgh) | |
| 2010 | ‘Air de jeux’, Le Quartier Centre d'Art Contemporain, Quimper (with Corin Sworn and Ciara Philips) |
| ‘Interference with twigs’, Mary Mary, Glasgow | |
| ‘The Show in the Shoe’, Temporary Space, Glasgow (curated with Jim Lambie) | |
| ‘Kiss of death’, The Glue Factory, Glasgow | |
| 2009 | ‘Set up and go’, APS Artnews project + Twinspace, Berlin |
| ‘The Complete World History of Terrorism as it is Known Today + Solution’, Arsenic, Lausanne (Festival Les Urbaines, with Shelly Nadashi and Kate V Robertson. Touring to Plateaux Festival Mousonturm, Frankfurt) | |
| ‘Gazing Ball’, Project Room, Glasgow | |
| ‘MFA Show’, Tramway, Glasgow | |
| 2008 | ‘Fertiles differences’, Galerie Analix, Geneva |
| ‘Unter < 30’, Kunstalle, Ligenthalle Switzerland (with Charlotte Herzig and Stéphane Devidal) | |
| ‘Swiss Art Award’, Messe, Basel (with Charlotte Herzig and Stéphane Devidal) | |
| ‘Royal Scottish Academy exhibition’, RSA, Edinburgh | |
| 2007 | ‘Unter < 30’, Centre Pasquart, Bienne (with Charlotte Herzig and Stèphane Devidal) |
| ‘Les Urbaines’, Docks, Lausanne (with Charlotte Herzig and Stéphane Devidal) | |
| ‘Blakadama’, Ford, Geneva (with Charlotte Herzig and Stéphane Devidal) | |
| ‘OB zine’, Ford, Geneva (with Charlotte Herzig and Stéphane Devidal) | |
| ‘Wunder stanza’, Ford, Geneva (with Charlotte Herzig and Stèphane Devidal) | |
| ‘Swiss art award’, Messe, Basel (with Charlotte Herzig and Stéphane Devidal) | |
| 2006 | ‘Mini golf’, Circuit, Lausanne (with Charlotte Herzig and Stèphane Devidal) |
| Espace Bellevaux, Lausanne | |
| ‘Blakam madame 2’, Espace Bellevaux, Lausanne (with Charlotte Herzig and Stéphane Devidal) | |
| ‘Viper Basel’, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel | |
| 2005 | ‘Elle procure des plaisirs qui n’ont rien à voir avec le plaisir de se gratter’, La Rusille, Vallorbe |
| ‘Swiss Videolandscape Today | lopped sensations’, Goethe-Institute, Kyoto; Park Tower Hall, Tokyo | |
| 2004 | ‘Cinquième partie’, Arsenic, Lausanne |
| 2003 | ‘MediaSpace Suiza’, Centro Cultural Conde Duque, Madrid |
| ‘Viper Basel’, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel | |
| ‘Désire Design’, Mudac, Lausanne | |
| 2002 | ‘Viper 22 replay 2’, Plug.in, Basel |
Curatorial Projects
| 2019 | ‘Pastel’, Flag Foundation, New York |
Commissions
| 2023 | ‘Nicolas Party and Rosalba Carriera’, Frick Collection, New York |
| 2019 | ‘Trees’, The Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles |
| 2017 | ‘Cafe Party’, Jupiter Artland, Edinburgh |
Bibliography
Press
| 2024 | Ingrid Luquet-Gad: ‘On the verge of extinction with painter Nicolas Party’, Art Basel, 07/02/2024 |
| Emily Snow, Anna Sexton: ‘Interview with Nicolas Party: Pastels, Rosalba Carriera, & More’, The Collector, 30/01/2024 | |
| 2023 | Shawn Ghassemitari: ‘Nicolas Party Ponders on the End Times in New Hauser & Wirth Exhibition’, Hypebeast, 25/09/2023 |
| Katie White: ‘In His Latest Exhibition, Nicolas Party Paints for the End Times’, Cultured, 06/09/2023 | |
| Ariella Budick: ‘Nicolas Party’s pastels celebrate the art and artifice of Rosalba Carriera’, Financial Times, 19/06/2023 | |
| Paul Laster: Nicolas Party‘s Journey Through Art, Ocula, 02/02/2023 | |
| 2022 | Nicolas Party‘s universe extends beyond the canvas, Document Journal, 13/04/2022 |
| Esmé Hogeveen: ‘The World of Nicolas Party: Exhibit at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts’, Nuvo, 22/02/2022 | |
| ‘In the studio with... Nicolas Party’, Apollo Magazine, 11/02/2022 | |
| Shawn Ghassemitari: ‘Nicolas Party Pays Homage to Louis-Léopold Boilly in Latest Exhibition’, Hypebeast, 04/01/2022 | |
| 2021 | Brycen Saunders: ‘Nicolas Party Brings ‘Watercolor’ Exhibition to NYC’s Karma Gallery’, Hypebeast, 31/12/2021 |
| Kriston Capps: ‘Hide and seek: Hirshhorn museum to cover entire building in a giant painting by Nicolas Party’, Art Newspaper, 22/07/2021 | |
| Delisi, Alessia: ‘Party Surreale’, Marie Claire Maison, 07/2021 | |
| 2020 | Alex Bennett: ‘The Sweet Potato and the Jar, Alex Bennett in conversation with Nicolas Party’, Novembre, 22/12/2020 |
| Oliver Zahm: ‘Nicolas Party interview by Oliver Zahm’, Purple Magazine, 34 08/12/2020 | |
| Bogojev, Sasha : ‘A Hug From On Top of You’, Juxtapoz, 21/09/2020 | |
| Rees, Lucy: ‘Nicolas Party Shares the Healing Power of Art During Quarantine’, Galerie Magazine, 22/05/2020 | |
| Abrams, Amah-Rose: ‘Painting the Town’, Esquire, 13/02/2020 | |
| Leydier, Richard: ‘Nicolas Party Game Over’, Art Press, 02/2020 | |
| Lee, Jonathan : ‘Nicolas Party’, Bomb Magazine, Issue #152 2020 | |
| 2019 | Hong, Catherine: Nicolas Party‘s Audacious Sense of Color, Surface mag, 04/12/2019 |
| Troncy, Eric: ‘Nicolas Party, King of oneiric flamboyance’, Numero, 29/08/2019 | |
| Loos, Ted: ‘Artist Nicolas Party Revives the Language of Pastel’, Cultured, 17/03/2019 | |
| Tudor, Elisabeta: ‘A Tinte Accese’, Vogue Italia, 05/02/2019 | |
| 2018 | Kazanjian, Dodie: ‘Party Time’, Vogue, US, 06/2018 |
| ‘Glasgow International festival of art to open’, BBC News, 19/04/2018 | |
| Casavecchia, Barbara: ‘As far as the eye can see’, L'Officiel Art, 3 04/2018 | |
| ‘Nicolas Party’, Apartamento, 21 04/2018 | |
| 2017 | Provenzi, Romina: ‘Nicolas Party: Oxford, Revisited’, Elephant Magazine, 04/12/2017 |
| Party, Nicolas & Subotnick, Ali: ‘The First Form of Art’, Parkett, 100/101 11/2017 | |
| 2015 | McCrory, Sarah: ‘Best of 2015’, Artforum, 12/2015 |
| Wine, Jesse & Party, Nicolas: ‘Apples and Pairs’, Frieze, no.175 11/2015 | |
| Sherwin, Skye: ‘Six Pack’, W Magazine, 11/2015 | |
| Vitorelli, Rita: ‘Portrait: Nicolas Party‘, Spike Art Quarterly, 44 06/2015 | |
| Akel, Joseph: ‘At the Independent Fair, Art Not Quite on the Margin‘, T Magazine, 06/03/2015 | |
| Chu, Christie: ‘Youthful, Edgy Independent Art Fair Looms Large in the Art World‘, artnet, 06/03/2015 | |
| Cotter, Holland: ‘Independent Art Fair Combines Less Is More and Growth‘, New York Times, 05/03/2015 | |
| 2013 | Lack, Jessica: ‘Party Coloured’, The World of Interiors, 12/2013 |
| Sharratt, Chris: ‘Strange Fruits’, Frieze d/e, No. 12 12/2013 | |
| Halpern, Clara: Daily Servings: The Art World‘s Food Pyramid, Modern Painters, 10/2013 | |
| Herbert, Martin: ‘Now See This’, Art Review, 04/2013 | |
| Schneider, Karen B.: ‘Art of the Advisor’, Artful Living, 2013 | |
| 2012 | ‘24 Artists to Watch’, Modern Painters, 12/2012 |
| Hoberman, Mara: ‘Five Questions for Nicolas Party’, Swiss Institute, Issue 1 04/2012 | |
| Halperin, Julia: ‘From a Watermelon Rock to a Resin Bong, the Trippiest Works at the 2012 Independent Fair’, Artinfo, 08/03/2012 | |
| 2011 | Calcutt, John: ‘Emerging: Nicolas Party’, Map, Issue 25 06/2011 |
| 2010 | Edbrook, Laura '...: ‘A Space on Stage, The Dinner Party’, New Work Scotland Programme, 2010 |
| Elise Lammer: ‘Sweetgeranium’, Novembre, Issue 2 2010 |
Exhibition Reviews
| 2020 | Kuesel, Christy: ‘Beloved for His Popping Pastels, Nicolas Party Takes a Darker Turn’, Artsy, 11/02/2020 |
| 2019 | Traux, Stephen: ‘Pastel Then, Pastel Now’, Hyperallergic.com, 14/12/2019 |
| Nys Dambrot, Shana : ‘Nicolas Party: Trees at the Marciano Art Foundation’, LA Weekly, 15/07/2019 | |
| Mansfield, Susan: ‘Art review: Nicolas Party, The Modern Institute, Glasgow | Monika Sosnowska, The Modern Institute, Glasgow’, The Scotsman, 13/07/2019 | |
| 2017 | McGrath, Charles: ‘The Met’s Dinner That Never Ends’, The New Yorker, 09/10/2017 |
| 2016 | Florian, Federico: ‘Nicolas Party at The Modern Institute’, Cura Magazine Blog, 09/2016 |
| Hatfull, Nicholas: ‘Nicolas Party “Three Cats†at The Modern Institute, Glasgow’, Mousse Magazine, Issue 55, October - November 2016 | |
| 2015 | Clark, Robert: ‘Nicolas Party‘, Guardian Guide, 09/05/2015 |
| ‘Nicolas Party: Boys And Pastel, Inverleith Gallery, Edinburgh’, The Herald, 09/05/2015 | |
| 2013 | Sharratt, Chris: ‘Reviews’, Frieze, 06/2013 |
| ‘Nicolas Party at The Modern Institute’, Contemporary Art Daily, 15/05/2013 | |
| ‘Exhibitions’, Mousse, 08/05/2013 | |
| Mansfield, Susan: ‘Art Reviews’, The Scotsman, 25/04/2013 | |
| Eldbrook, Laura: ‘Exhibitions’, We Find Wildness, 22/04/2013 | |
| ‘"HERstories" at Bonner Kunstverein‘, Contemporary Art Daily, 21/04/2013 | |
| Benmakhlouf, Adam: ‘Art Review’, The Skinny, 19/04/2013 | |
| Patience, Jan: ‘Gallery round-up‘, The Herald, 13/04/2013 | |
| Patience, Jan: ‘An arty Party’, The Daily Record, 12/04/2013 | |
| 2012 | Taylor, Rhona: ‘Reviews’, The List, 13/12/2012 |
| Katsof, Alhena: ‘MEET Nicolas Party’, Kaleidoscope, 05/12/2012 | |
| ‘Exhitions‘, Contemporary Art Daily, 17/04/2012 | |
| M.A.: ‘assoloshow’, Exibart, 04/2012 | |
| ‘Exhibitions‘, Contemporary Art Daily, 24/03/2012 | |
| ‘Exhibitions‘, Contemporary Art Daily, 02/02/2012 | |
| Morgan, Elinor: ‘Painting Show‘, this is tomorrow, 19/01/2012 | |
| 2011 | Bradley, Kimberly: ‘Athenian Rhapsody‘, artnet, 10/2011 |
| ‘Nicolas Party ‘Dinner for 24 Elephants’ at The Modern Institute, Glasgow‘, Mousse, 26/09/2011 | |
| Cloughton, Rachael: ‘New Work Scotland Programme: Nicolas Party & Catherine Payton‘, The List, 01/2011 | |
| C. V.: ‘Still Wasser‘, Art Collector, 2011 | |
| 2010 | Cattanach, Andrew: ‘NWS 2010: Nicolas Party and Catherine Payton‘, The Skinny, 28/10/2010 |
| Sworn, Corin: ‘Teapots and Sausages‘, Exhibition Text, 2010 |
Publications
| 2022 | L’heure mauve, 5 Continents Editions, Milan |
| Nicolas Party, Phaidon Press, London/New York | |
| 2021 | Rovine, Scheidegger & Spiess, Zürich |
| Watercolour, Karma, New York | |
| 2020 | Pastel, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York |
| 2019 | Nicolas Party: Arches, M WOODS, Beijing |
| 2018 | Still Life Paintings by William Nicholson Giorgio Morandi Euan Uglow Felix Vallotton 2008, Karma, New York |
| 2017 | La vie simple, Simplament la vie - Songs of Alienation, Fondation Vincent Van Gogh Arles |
| Pastel, Karma, New York | |
| 2016 | Vitamin P3: New Perspectives in Painting, Phaidon Press, London/ New York |
| 2015 | Feelings: Soft Art, Rizzoli, New York |
| 2014 | Pastel, Galerie Gregor Staiger, Zurich |
| 2013 | /prospekt/ Funktion / Dysfunktion. Kunstzentrum Glasgow, Neues Museum, Nuremberg |
| 2011 | Nicolas Party, The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow |