Fulfill Your Need. Since 2005.
Nicole Pietrantoni is an American artist best known for her colorful paper sculptures. Drawing on her training as a printmaker and bookbinder, Pietrantoni creates inkjet-printed accordion books that unfold into wall-mounted compositions. Strips of printed paper zigzag down the wall in grids, revealing fragments of abstract landscapes and still lifes. When collapsed, her accordion books fit modestly in the hand, but when expanded, they are bold—fluorescent pinks reflect on the wall, flowers burst into view, pixels dissolve and resolve.
She is the recipient of numerous awards, including a Fulbright to Iceland, an Artist Trust Fellowship, and the Manifest Prize. She has been a visiting artist and lecturer at over 40 institutions, and her work has been exhibited in over 100 national and international shows, including solo exhibitions at the San Juan Islands Museum of Art and the Manifest Gallery. Group venues include exhibitions at Galerie Gardette in Paris, Galleri Heike Arndt in Berlin, the San Francisco Center for the Book, the American University Museum in Washington, D.C., and the Lia Libro de Artista in Mexico. Her work has been included in Art in Print and The Washington Post and featured in American Printmakers.
She 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. She currently lives and works in Girona, Spain..
Nicole Pietrantoni is born in 1981, Chicago, USA. Lives and works in Girona, Spain.
EDUCATION
2010 – 2011 Fulbright Grant, U.S. Student Fellow in Printmaking, Iceland
2009 – 2010 MFA with Honors, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
Major: Printmaking; Minor: Intermedia
2007 – 2009 MA University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
Major: Printmaking; Minor: Drawing and Painting
1999 – 2003 BS magna cum laude, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
Double Major: Human and Organizational Development and Art History
Lorenzo de Medici Art Institute, Semester Abroad, Florence, Italy
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
Spring 2021 Chair, Studio Art Department, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA
2017 – 2023 Associate Professor of Art, Printmaking & Book Arts, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA
2012 – 2017 Assistant Professor of Art, Printmaking & Book Arts, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA
2011 – 2012 Visiting Assistant Professor of Art, Printmaking & Drawing, University of Montana, Missoula, MT
2009 – 2010 Instructor of Art, Printmaking & Intermedia, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
TEACHING AWARDS
2017 Thomas D. Howell Award for Distinguished Teaching in the Humanities, Whitman College
2016 The Graves Award for Excellence in Humanities Teaching & Research, Pomona College
FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, & AWARDS
2024 Art Prize of the City of Barcelona- Agbar, Finalist & Honorable Mention, Barcelona, Spain
Emerging Woman Artist Award, Winner, Arts to Hearts Project, London, UK
Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, Director’s Cut, London, UK
2020 Ashurst Emerging Artist Prize, Shortlist, London, UK
2015 Artist Trust Fellowship, $7,500 fellowship
The Manifest One Prize, Manifest Gallery & Drawing Center
The Print Center’s 89th Annual International Competition, Semi-finalist
2014 Larry Sommers Art Fellowship, $2,000, Seattle Print Arts
2010 Leifur Eiríksson Foundation Scholarship, $22,000 research grant
2009 Public Art Commission, $6,000, University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics
2009 Research Fellowship, University of Iowa
2007 – 2009 Dean’s Graduate Fellowship, University of Iowa
2008 – 2009 Elizabeth Catlett Fellowship, University of Iowa
2007 – 2008 Leola Bergmann and Iowa Print Group Graduate Fellowship, University of Iowa
2007 – 2008 Paula Patton Grahame Fellowship, University of Iowa
2004 Margaret Stonewall Wooldridge Hamblet Fellowship, $18,500, Vanderbilt University