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Nicolas Party

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Nicolas Party
Born1980 (age 4546)
Lausanne, Switzerland

Nicolas Party (born 1980, Lausanne, Switzerland)[1] is a Swiss visual artist.[2] He lives and works in New York City and Brussels. He is known for his multi-media interdisciplinary immersive exhibitions.

Biography

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He received his BFA degree from the École cantonale d'art de Lausanne in 2004 and his MFA from the Glasgow School of Art, in Glasgow, Scotland in 2009.[3][4][5]

Party's work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, the Magritte Museum in Brussels,[6] the Dallas Museum of Art, and the Hirshhorn Museum.[7][8] For his second exhibition at the Hirshorn Museum which ran 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".[8] Party's exhibition "When Tomorrow Comes" at the Museum Frieder Burda is the Swiss artist's first museum presentation in Germany.[9] Party' primary medium of choice is pastel.[10]

In February 2020 he had his first solo exhibition, "Scottsboro" with Hauser & Wirth at their Los Angeles, California venue. In 2017 he had his first solo exhibition, "Three Season" with Xavier Hufkens.[11]

Among the artists Party cites as having influenced his painting are Rosalba Carriera, Félix Vallotton, Milton Avery, Pablo Picasso, and Giorgio Morandi.[12]

Party's landscapes often draw from or even directly cite styles and motifs from a diverse set of contemporary painters and painters of previous generations, including Salvo, a similarity picked up at a number of exhibitions.[13][14]

Bibliography

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References

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  1. Barnes, Claire (15 May 2025). "5 things you need to know about Nicolas Party". The Holburne Museum. Retrieved 12 April 2026.
  2. "Nicolas Party". The Warehouse Dallas. Retrieved 12 April 2026.
  3. "UESHIMA MUSEUM COLLECTION". アーティスト詳細 | UESHIMA MUSEUM COLLECTION. Retrieved 2025-04-08.
  4. "Nicolas Party". ECAL - École cantonale d'art de Lausanne. Retrieved 2025-04-08.
  5. "Lausanne University of Art and Design (ECAL)". Lausanne Tourisme. Retrieved 2025-04-08.
  6. Bisello, Piero (June 1, 2018). "Does site specific painting exist? Nicolas Party questions René Magritte".
  7. Gorday, Shelby (August 18, 2016). "STROLL THROUGH THE IMMERSIVE WORK OF NICOLAS PARTY AT THE DMA | Patron Magazine". patronmagazine.com.
  8. 1 2 "Nicolas Party: Draw the Curtain". Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden | Smithsonian.
  9. "Süße Endzeit | Monopol". www.monopol-magazin.de (in German). Retrieved 2024-02-19.
  10. "See Inside Artist Nicolas Party's New York City Studio, Where Each of His 2,455 Pastels Has Its Own Cubby". 8 February 2022.
  11. "Nicolas Party — KARMA".https://karmakarma.org/artists/nicolas-party/bio/
  12. "Annie Godfrey Larmon on Nicolas Party". December 2017.
  13. "SALVO. Autoritratto come Salvo | MACRO Museum". www.museomacro.it. Retrieved 2023-03-20.
  14. "Four Landscapes by Nicolas Party | Swiss Re Art". www.swissre.com. Retrieved 2023-03-20.