(b. 1980 San Juan, Puerto Rico)
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY
EDUCATION
2010 MFA, Fiber and Material Studies, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2004 BFA, Cum Laude, Major: Painting / Minor: Graphic Design, Escuela de Artes Plásticas de Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR
ART RESIDENCIES
2023 The Mary Lucille Dauray Artist in Residence program, Norton Museum, West Palm Beach, FL
2021 Ox-Bow, Visiting Artist Program, Saugatuck, MI
2017 Residency Exchange, Unisex Salon, Brooklyn, NY
2014 Artist in Residence, ÁREA: Lugar de Proyectos, Caguas, PR
2013 Sponsored Artist, Project: Displacement, High Concept Laboratories, Chicago, IL
2006 Summer Artist Residency Program in Painting and Drawing, The Cooper Union School of Art and Science, New York, NY
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Eyes of the Sea, Times Square Arts, New Yprk, NY
2024 Clouds in the Expanded Field, curated by Arden Sherman, Norton Museum, West Palm Beach, FL
2022 Temple of the Seas, Jason Haam, Seoul, Korea
2020 Deep Blue Day, Bright Pink Night, Embajada Foyer, Brooklyn, NY
2019 Paisaje Lunar, Fly Weight Projects, Brooklyn, NY
2019 Full Moon in the Sun Room, Fresh Window Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2018 Tangible, Hidrante Gallery, San Juan, PR
2017 Anchor - Amulet - Heirlooms, Residency Exchange I, Unisex Salon, Brooklyn, NY
2014 Entre-Sala, ÁREA: Lugar de Proyectos, Caguas, PR
2013 Displacement, Morton Collage, Cicero, IL
2007 Lollipop, Galería Botello, San Juan, PR,
2006 Residencia Cooper Union, Galería Botello, San Juan, PR
TWO PERSON SHOWS
2023 Drawing as Practice, National Academy of Design, New York, NY
2023 entre horizontes: Art and Activism Between Chicago and Puerto Rico curated by Carla Acevedo-Yates, MCA Chicago, IL
2021 Cuerpo Espacio y Todo lo que Rodea, Nora Maité Nieves and Yoan Sorin, Embajada Gallery, San Juan, PR
2021 Electric Hue, Nora Maité Nieves and Livia Ortiz, curated by Embajada, Proxyco Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2015 Golden Rule: Patterns and Golden Kids, Nora M. Nieves and Stephanie Graham, curated by Cecilia Vargas, Terrain Biennial, Terrain Exhibitions, Chicago, IL
2014 Partitions, Nora Nieves and Liz McCarthy, Comfort Station with High Concept Laboratories, Chicago, IL
2013 Coppice and Nora Maité Nieves, Pivot Arts | High Concept Laboratories, Chicago, IL
2013 Amulets & Heirlooms, Nora Nieves and Matthew Schlagbaum, Casa Duno, Chicago, IL
2005 Artistas Emergentes: Nora Maité Nieves and Venessa Russo, Galería Botello, San Juan, PR
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 Reimagined Landscapes, Calderón Gallery, New York, NY
2021 Intertwined, curated by Alex Allenchey, 1969 Gallery,
New York, NY
2021 Surfacing, curated by Carlos Rosales-Silva, Ruiz-Healy Art, New York, NY
2021 […] ENTREFORMAS, curated by Abdiel Segarra, Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR
2021 Contact Light, Survey Survey, New York, NY
2020 Landmark, El Kilometro, San Juan, PR
2019 Blanco y Negro, Embajada, MECA Art Fair, San Juan, PR
2019 Nada Tropical, curated by Ricardo Cabret & Maximilian Juliá, Miscelanea Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
2019 Small Objects, curated by Paz Monge, La Salita, New York, NY
2019 Quid Bro Quo, curated by Alexander Deschamps, Fresh Window Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2019 Rubus Armeniacus (Himalayan Blackberry), curated by Jessica Kwok, Jessica’s Apartment Gallery, New York, NY
2019 Repatriation, curated by Bianca Ortiz, Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR
2018 EDDYS Room, curated by Austin Eddy, Galleri Thomassen, Gothenburg, Sweden
2018 Windows, curated by Anton Bashkin, Next 2 Nothing Galllery, New York, NY
2018 EDDYS Room, curated by Austin Eddy, Usable Space Galllery, Milwaukee, WI
2018 Expansive Threads, curated by Edra Soto, Latino Arts Inc, Milwaukee, WI
2018 Lo Natural, Mónica Pérez-Collado, Nora M. Nieves and Sarada Rauch, Unisex Salon, Brooklyn, NY
2018 One Night Show, Two Years Long, curated by Austin Eddy, Eddy's Room, Playa del Carmen, Mexico
2017 Gallery Chicago, curated by Robin Dluzen, Stano Grezdo and Bianca Ortiz, The National Museum of Puerto Rico Arts & Culture, Chicago, IL
2017 Horizon/Paisaje, Fresh Window Gallery, Brooklyn, IL
2017 Gallery Chicago, curated by Robin Dluzen, Stano Grezdo
and Bianca Ortiz, The Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago, IL
2016 Material, National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts and Culture, Chicago, IL
2016 Present Standard, curated by Josue Pellot and Edra Soto, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
2015 Where The Heart Is, Fresh Window Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2014 By The Pleasure Of Doing, curated by Juan Alberto Negroni, Espacio 20/20, San Juan, PR
2014 Homecoming, curated by Brenda Torres Figueroa, National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts and Culture, Chicago, IL
2014 Renuncias y Adopciones, Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, San Juan, PR
2013 Re-Visiting Un-Domesticated, Casa Duno at Design Cloud, Chicago, IL
2011 Cause it might fade away: four proposals about retrieval and closure, Institute of Puerto Rican Arts and Culture (IPRAC), Chicago, IL
2011 Chikitolina III, Centro Curatorial La 15, San Juan, PR
2011 Serie Regional de Jugadores Pampers/Proyecto #3 Deconstrucciones: Convivencias y Convergencias Hacia una Antropología Urbana, Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, San Juan, PR
2010 Valoarte, Costa Rica
2010 Final Statement, Graduate Exhibition, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, IL
2009 Folklure, 1213 Sharp, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2009 Publica 3, Trienal Poligráfica, Instituto de Cultura de Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR
2008 Publica 2, Area (Lugar de Proyectos), Caguas, PR
2008 Angora 2, Espacio Alternativo, Caguas, PR
2007 Colección de Arte Cortés, Museo de Arte de Caguas, Caguas, PR
2007 Blog, Galería Candela, San Juan, PR, 2007Publica, =desto, San Juan, PR
2006 Summer Residency Program, The Cooper Union School of Art and Science, New York, NY
2005 Combined Talents, Museum of Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
AWARDS
2023 UBS Emerging Artist Award, Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan
2014 Artist Project Grant, Illinois Arts Council Agency, Chicago, IL
2014 Artist Support, Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, San Juan, PR
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2019 The Extraordinary, curated by Arden Sherman with Nora Maité Nieves, Hunter East Harlem Gallery, New York, NY
2018 Visitors from Shallow Space, curated by Annie Hémond Hotte & Nora Maité Nieves, Fresh Window Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2017 Landscape/Horizonte, artists: Melissa Calderón, Frances Gallardo, Fernando Pintado and Chemi Rosado-Seijo, Fresh Window Gallery, Brooklyn, IL
2017 Horizon/Paisaje, artists: Nora Maité Nieves, Carlos Rodrígez, Edra Soto, Omar Velázquez, Fresh Window Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
TEACHING
2011-2015 Art Instructor, Painting & Fashion Jewelry Design, After School Matters, Chicago, IL