Nicole Bricker
Nicole Bricker is a mixed media artist based in Baltimore, MD. Her work explores nostalgia, memory, and the visual language of Midwestern suburbia, transforming familiar tropes of Minnesota culture into work that affirms identity, belonging, and cultural significance. Drawing from family keepsakes and cultural ephemera, she reconstructs fragments of domestic experience into layered compositions that merge personal narrative with collective experience.
Her practice spans painting, collage, and sculpture, combining found objects, cast forms, and materials such as liquid rubber to create tactile works that balance humor, sentiment, and introspection.
Bricker’s work has been exhibited at the Lyman Allyn Museum in New London, Rosalie Gallery in Minneapolis, and Field Projects in New York. She is the founder of Anonymous Society, a Connecticut based art platform that supports artistic experimentation through exhibitions and initiatives.
ARTIST STATEMENT
My artwork begins with inherited domestic objects. Family keepsakes, photographs, and decorative objects become a way of examining how everyday things shape us long after they have outlived their original purpose. I am interested in the lives objects have after they stop being useful and how they transform into carriers of memory, labor, care, and identity across generations.
Writing is the foundation of my practice. Notes, observations, and longer reflections help me untangle ideas before they become visual. Rather than working within a single medium, I let each question determine its own form. I work across sculpture, painting, cyanotypes, printmaking, and installation, layering materials and processes to reflect the layered histories carried by the objects themselves.
By placing inherited objects into new relationships, I think about how their meanings shift over time. A doily protected furniture. A serving dish gathered families around a table. A ceramic figurine decorated a shelf. I alter, combine, repeat, and reposition these familiar forms, disrupting their original functions while allowing their histories to remain visible. They become evidence of touch, repetition, and care, carrying traces of the hands that made them and the lives that surrounded them.
CURRICULUM VITAE
SELECT EXHIBITIONS
Solo Exhibitions
2025 The Trying Times, Anonymous Society, Redding, CT
2021 Moments Witnessed, Five Points Annex Gallery, Torrington, CT
Two Person Exhibitions
2025 Acts of Beauty (with Katie Bassett), TrailerBox Projects, Bethel, CT
Select Group Exhibitions
2026 Child’s Play, Trailer Box Project, Bethel CT
Fortune Cookie Project, Still River Editions, Danbury CT
2025 Make/Believe, The Stairwell Space, Bridgeport, CT
Summer Exhibition, GTown Arts, Georgetown, CT
Alt TXT, Field Projects, New York, NY
Hill Blocks View, Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, CT
2024 Warm Embrace, The Canopy Gallery, New York, NY
2023 Windows to the Inside, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
2022 Open Door 17, Rosalux Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
The Will to Change: Gathering as Praxis, Lyman Allyn Museum,
New London, CT and Connecticut College, New London, CT
45th Annual Juried Show, Ridgefield Guild of Artists, Ridgefield, CT
Light of Day: Rejects Reconsidered, Lodger Gallery (Online)
2021 Art in the Face of Hard Times, Mandell Gallery, West Hartford, CT
Season of Hope, The Meetinghouse Gallery, Ridgefield, CT
2020 Give Us the Vote (Virtual), ArtsWestchester, White Plains, NY
New Haven Open Studios, New Haven, CT
Ridgefield Suffrage Centennial, Ridgefield Town Hall, Ridgefield, CT
Rituals of Resistance, Urban Collective, New Haven, CT
48th Annual Juried Show, Mark Twain Library, Redding, CT
43rd Annual Juried Show, Ridgefield Guild of Artists, Ridgefield, CT
2019 Dreams, Rene Soto Gallery, Norwalk, CT
Sanctuary Cities & the Politics of the American Dream, Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, CT
Exhibition, Dacia Gallery, New York, NY
2018 Give Us the Vote, ArtsWestchester, White Plains, NY
2016 Creative Mischief, National Academy Gallery, New York, NY
PUBLICATIONS
2026 Suboart Magazine June Issue
202 The Atlas of Contemporary Women Artists – North America
HONORS & AWARDS
2023 James Bernard Haggarty Scholarship
2023 The Canopy Artist Residency, NYC Crit Club, NYC, NY
2019 Artist Residency, Dacia Gallery, NYC, NY
2018 Opportunity Grant, ArtsWestchester, White Plains, NY
EDUCATION
2017 Figurative Oil Painting, National Academy of Art and Design, NYC, NY
2000 BA in Radio TV Film, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, Oshkosh, WI
1995 Visual Arts Program, Perpich Center for Arts Education, Golden Valley. MN