Nicolas Party

Nicolas Party (b. July 1, 1980, in Lausanne, Switzerland) is a Swiss visual artist living and working in New York City and Brussels, Belgium. He is known for his multi-media interdisciplinary immersive exhibitions.

He received his BFA from the Lausanne School of Art in 2004 and his MFA frmm the Glasgow School of Art, in Glasgow, Scotland in 2009.

Party's work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Magritte Museum in Brussels,[1] the Dallas Museum of Art, and the Hirshhorn Museum.[2][3] For his second exhibition at the Hirshorn which runs from September 18, 2021 until the spring of 2022 he created his largest work to date Draw the Curtain, it "wraps 360 degrees around the temporary scaffolding that encases the Museum building and spans a circumference of 829 feet". It is an "original pastel painting digitally collaged and printed onto scrim".[3]

He is represented by Hauser & Wirth.[3] In February of 2020 he had his first solo exhibition, "Scottsboro" with the gallery at their Los Angeles, California venue. He has also exhibited at karma Gallery in New York City.[4]

Among the artists Party cites as having influenced his painting are Milton Avery, Pablo Picasso, and Giorgio Morandi.[5]