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For Nicole Eisenman’s first exhibition at Hauser & Wirth in Paris, the artist will celebrate the medium of sculpture,which has been an integral aspect of the artist’s practice over the last decade. Having established herself as acentral figure in American painting throughout the 1990s, Eisenman has since expanded her practice into the thirddimension with international acclaim. This show brings together a diverse multidisciplinary language comprised ofsculpture, two-dimensional work from the sculpture studio and paintings that relate to sculpture.

Nicole Eisenman lives and works in Brooklyn NY. She is a MacArthur Foundation Fellow and was inducted intothe American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2018. Her work was included in the 2019 Venice Biennale, 2019Whitney Biennial and 2017 Skulptur Projekte Münster in Münster, Germany. Most recently, the solo exhibition ‘NicoleEisenman: What Happened’ was displayed at Museum Brandhorst, Munich in 2023, at Whitechapel Gallery inLondon until 14 January 2024, traveling to the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago in April 2024.

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About the Artist

Nicole Eisenman was born in 1965 in Verdun, France. Her father, a US Army psychiatrist, and her mother, an urban planner, moved the family to Scarsdale, New York in 1970. Eisenman received her BA in Fine Arts from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1987. During her studies at RISD, Eisenman spent a formative year in Rome, where she became enamoured with Renaissance painting. After graduating, Eisenman moved to Manhattan’s Lower East Side and began exploring a range of mediums, experimenting with painting, printing, sculpture, installation, and video.

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