Nicole Cherubini
Throughout her career, Nicole Cherubini (RISD BFA 1993, Ceramics) has challenged the conventions, expectations, and codified hierarchies of sculpture. Subverting history, Cherubini builds works that simultaneously undermine and challenge their traditional purpose, recasting them as new forms that reject, exploit, and accentuate compliant beauty. Her integration of complex elements evokes a conglomerative aesthetic of excess and minimalism; she channels the baroque, modernism, performance, and historical ceramics into a choreographed conversation with the viewer. Cherubini’s work is on view in the exhibition A Shared Journey: The Barkan Contemporary Ceramic Collection.
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Born in 1970 in Boston, Nicole Cherubini received a BFA in Ceramics from RISD in 1993 and an MFA in Visual Arts from NYU in 1998. Her work is in numerous public and private collections including the Pérez Art Museum (Miami), Museum of Fine Arts (Boston), Museum of Arts and Design (New York), Institute of Contemporary Art (Boston), Everson Museum of Art (Syracuse), RISD Museum (Providence), and the Tang Teaching Museum (Saratoga Springs), among many others. Her work has been reviewed in Art in America, Artforum, Art News, Bomb, Frieze Magazine, The New York Times and The New Yorker, as well as other prominent publications. Cherubini was an artist in residence at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, MA). She is a recipient of the Louis Comfort Tiffany Grant, Art Matters Grant, NEA Travel Grant among others. Cherubini lives and works in Brooklyn and Hudson, NY.