NICOLE FINGER PO 3515, Telluride CO 81435
www.fingerpaintingart.com nicole@fingerpaintingart.com
EDUCATION
University of Colorado 1988 Bachelor of Fine Arts/Studio Art, Boulder CO
National Merit Scholar,
1984 Gold Key Award, Corcoran Museum, Washington DC
UCLA art extension painting program; figurative drawing and tromphe o’eil, 1989
Wolf Kahn - landscape painting workshop, La Jolla, CA, 1990
Alyssa Monks workshop, NY Academy of Art, 2014
REPRESENTATION
Slate Grey Gallery, Telluride,CO
Victory Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
Skidmore Contemporary Art, Santa Monica, CA
Elected Member of AAA, AAPL,Professional Member of IGOR, AWA, NOAPS
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Live Invitational Exhibition at the Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown,OH, 2024
Figurative and Portraiture Almenara Art Prize 2023 online exhibition. Cordoba Spain
International Biennial Portrait Competition 2023, Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art, Wausau, Wisconsin
15th and 16th International ARC Salon semi finalist, 2020, 2022
4th, 5th, 6th, 7th Annual National Juried Exhibition,
Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art, Wausau, WA, 2020, 2021 2nd place, 2022 Honorable Mention
John Dalton Gently Does It Art Awards Prize, Finalist, 2022
Create Magazine & Veronica Winters Online Exhibition,"Why Do Artist’s Create?", award, 2022
FiKVA- Figurative Kunst Vandaag, International FiKVA Award Finalist, 2022
International Guild of Realism Fall Salon Online Exhibition, Best Portrait Award 2022
AAPL - American Artists Professional League, 94th Grand National Exhibition, Salmagundi Club, NYC, 2022
107th, 108th, 109th, 110th, 11th, Allied Artists of America Online Exhibition, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
NOAPS- National Oil and Acrylic Painters Society Online Exhibition,2022
Portrait Society of America, “View of Self”, Top 50 Portraits, 2022American Women Artists
(AWA) 2022 Juried Spring Online Show- Presidents Award
American Artists Professional League (AAPL) 2022 Spring Members Online Show- 1st Place Award for oils
16th Annual International Guild of Realism Exhibition, Mc Bride Gallery, Annapolis, Maryland 2022
Painting the Figure Now 2021, Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art, Wausau, Wisconsin
National Oil & Acrylic Painters Society “Best of America” Juried Exhibit 2021, Dana Gallery, Missoula, Montana
Quest For the Modern Figure, 33 Contemporary, Chicago, IL 2021
The Portrait, 33 Contemporary, online, 2021
Florals, 33 Contemporary,2021
Music/Man, 33 Contemporary, 2021
The Lunar Codex project- 1200 digitized works of artists being placed in perpetuity on the surface of the moon:
Facing the Universe: The Cosmos Within” online exhibition sponsored by Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art, 2021
Art Renewal Center’s 15th ARC Salon, semi- finalist, 2020
Facing the Universe: Cosmos Within, sponsored by WMOCA, 33 Contemporary, 2021
Ethereal Epiphany, 33 Contemporary, online exhibition, 2020
NOAPS International Online Exhibition, 2020
Ambivalence, 33 Contemporary- Artsy online exhibit, 2020
Allied Artist’s of America 107th Juried Exhibition, 2020, and 110th, 2023
Shelter, 33 Contemporary- Artsy online exhibit, 2020
The Creator and the Muse, 33 Contemporary- Artsy online exhibit, 2020
Telluride Gallery Spring Group Show, 2020
The Creator and The Muse, Zhou B Art Center and 33 Contemporary, Chicago, May 2020
Allied Artists of America 106th Annual Exhibition, Salmagundi Club NYC, 2019
NOAPS Online International Exhibition 2019
Bergamot Station Holiday Show, Skidmore Contemporary Art, 2017
The National Oil and Acrylic Painter’s Society 27th Annual 'BEST OF AMERICA’ Exhibition; Castle Gallery Fine Art, Fort Wayne, Indiana, 2017. NOAPS member.
7th International Wearable Expressions Juried Exhibition, Palos Verdes Art Center, Palos Verdes, CO, 2017
"Raw" Annual Regional Juried Exhibition, Ah Haa School, Telluride, CO 2017
Art For Horses 2015, 2016, PACE Center, Parker,CO
Denver Children’s Advocacy Center, “Art From the Heart”, 2016
“Face It” The Face in Contemporary Art, international juried show, OnSite:Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY, 2015
Mighty Tanaka Art Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 2014
Art of Colorado Corporations, Institutions and Individuals, Denver, CO 2013
Las Laguna Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA, 2013
Mountain Oyster Club’s 44th Annual Contemporary Western Art Show, Tucson, AZ, 2013
Collect: Art of Colorado Corporations, Institutions and Individuals, Arvada, CO, 2013
“Bike Art at the Dairy”, The Dairy’s McMahon Gallery, Boulder, CO, 2013
Arroyo, Solstice, Winter Group Show January 2013, Santa Fe, NM, Telluride, CO
Arroyo, Contemporary Southwest Realism, Competition & Show, 2012, Santa Fe, NM, Telluride, CO
The Perfect Animal, West Colorado Center for the Arts, Grand Junction, CO, 2013
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
“Peaks and Petals” Slate Grey Gallery, 2 woman show 2024
“Bloom” Nicole Finger, Victory Contemporary, solo show, October 2022
“Temptation,” Skidmore Contemporary Art, Santa Monica, 2018
36th Annual Telluride Wine Festival Patron Gallery Show
“WET,” solo show, 81435, Telluride, CO, 2015
Telluride Arts 2015 Art and Architecture
Auberge Resorts, Element 52, Telluride, CO
Seven Arts Gallery, Ridgefield, Connecticut, 2015
2014 Shades of Grey, Gold Mountain Gallery, Telluride, CO, 2013
Jockey for a Cause Featured artist, Rancho Santa Fe, CA 2012
Win, Place, Show, Rochester Hotel, Durango, CO
Ah Haa School for the Arts, Telluride, CO
Lucas Gallery, Telluride CO
Telluride Gallery of Art, Telluride CO
Auberge Resorts, Element 52, Telluride, CO
HONORS
The Artemis Accords- 2/14/24-perpetuity, artwork on payloads on The Odysseus Codex
Nova Spacecraft on moon. Lunarcodex.com
Selected artists in Mod Portrait catalog 2022
IGOR, Best Portrait Award, 2022
6th Annual National Juried Exhibtion, (ANJE) , Honorable Mention, 2022
John Dalton Gently Does It Art Awards Prize, Finalist, 2022
International FiKVA Award Finalist, 2022
16th International ARC Salon semi finalist, Art Renewal Center, 2022
American Women Artists (AWA) 2022 Juried Spring Online Show- Presidents Award
American Artists Professional League (AAPL) 2022 Spring Members Online Show- 1st Place Award for oils
5th Annual National Juried Exhibition (ANJE), Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art, Wausau, Wisconsin, 2021,Second Place Winner
American Artists Professional League 93rd Grand National Exhibition, 2021, Salmagundi Club, NYC, Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club Award
The Lunar Codex project- 1200 digitized works of artists being placed in perpetuity on the surface of the moon via a United Launch Alliance (ULA)Vulcan Centaur rocket. NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)
4th annual National Juried Exhibition (ANJE), Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art, Wausau, Wisconsin 2020
Art Renewal Center’s 15th ARC Salon, semi- finalist, 2020
Facing the Universe: Cosmos Within, sponsored by WMOCA, 33 Contemporary, 2021
Southwest Art Magazine, “Artists to Watch”, Dec/Jan edition
Second Place Winner, Artists Magazine 2018 Annual Competition
Honorable Mention Winner, 2017 Artists Magazine All-Media Online Competition
Best Realism, NOAPS Best of America 2017, award sponsored by Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine
Artistic Excellence Finalist, Southwest Art Magazine, 2017
Art Steamboat Finalist, Steamboat Springs, CO, 2014
The Artist’s Magazine 31st Annual Art Competition Finalist, Dec. 2014
Arroyo, Contemporary Southwest Realism, Competition & Show, November 2012
Southwest Art Magazine, Artistic Excellence Competition, December, 2012
Colorado Commemorative Monument, San Sophia Station, Telluride, CO
Received Lucille K. Megee Award
CORPORATE COLLECTIONS
San Francisco Delta Sky Club Collection, San Francisco International Airport, 2018
Element 29 at Copper Mountain Hotel
Exempla, St. Joseph’s Hospital, Denver, CO 2013
Children’s Hospital, Denver, CO 2013
Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children, Denver, CO
Children’s Hospital, Parker, CO
St. Mary’s Hospital, Grand Junction, CO
Greeley Hotel, Greeley, CO 2017
Hilton Del Mar, CA
Black Gold Suites, Williston, ND
Element 52, Telluride, CO
Conde Nast Inc., New York NY
Startech International, Denver, CO
Jackson National Life, Franklin, TN
Gray Head Development, Telluride, CO
Telluride Real Estate Corporation, Telluride, CO
360 Real Estate, Telluride, CO
Mike’s Management, Tucson, AZ
First Warning Music, New York, NY
Law Offices of Howard Siegel, Esq. Washington, DC
RECENT PRESS
International Artist Magazine Prize Winner 2024
American Art Collector, March, 2024, “Feminism", 33 Contemporary, artsy.net
“Conversation",July, 2024, 33 Contemporary, artsy.net
https://www.wagnerskis.com/blogs/journal/artist-series-2024-nicole-finger
thepowdercloud.com - featured artist
" Palate & Palette", by Amy Allen, Substack Reads, 2022, 2023
Southwest Art Magazine, Dec./Jan. 2022 Artistic Excellence Competition Finalist
Fine Art Connoisseur, “Hospitality Endures, Cooking, Dining, Wining” Jan/Feb 2022
Western Art & Architecture, Illuminations, October/November 2021
Southwest Art Magazine, “Artists to Watch”, Dec/Jan 2021
“Facing the Universe: the Cosmos Within”, Feb. 2021, Poets Artists, Magcloud American Art Collector
Telluride Daily Planet, “Moon bound: Local Artist’s Work Being Sent to Space”, April 2021
American Art Collector, “10 Portrait Artists to Know Right Now”, August issue, 2020
Telluride Inside and Out, Tellurideinside.com, Telluride Gallery March: Group Show + 4 New Artists
Southwest Art Magazine, Jan/Feb 2018
Artists Magazine — 2nd place winner of 35th Annual Art Competition, 2018
The Artist’s Magazine 31st Annual Art Competition Finalist, December, 2014
American Art Collector, Art of the Horse, May, 2013
Southwest Art Magazine, Artistic Excellence Competition, December, 2012
Telluride Style Magazine, 2013 “Best of Worldwide- Portrait and Figurative” “Best of Worldwide- Wildlife”
Night of 100 Angels, “Elly Angel,” Book/publication
Telluride Inside and Out interviews, 2009, 2011
Telluride Magazine, Summer/Fall 2008
Forbes Life Mountain Time, July 2008
All images of work on website that have been sold are available for giclee reproduction prints.