Artist Biography

b.1980
Nicolas Party is a Swiss visual artist living and working in New York City and Brussels. He received his BFA from the Lausanne School of Art in 2004 and his MFA from the Glasgow School of Art, in Glasgow, Scotland in 2009. Party’s works on paper and canvas are most often done in colorful soft pastel, the most common subject matter being fantastical still lifes and portraits.

Party will be the subject of a solo show at the Hoam Museum of Art in Yongin from 3 September 2024 to 19 January 2025, marking this his first solo exhibition in South Korea.

Recent solo exhibitions also include: Kaufmann Repetto,  Milan (IT, 2024), Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden, (DE, 2023), The Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas (US, 2023), Xavier Hufkens, Brussels (BEL, 2023), Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan (IT, 2022), and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (CA, 2022).

Party’s work is represented in the collections of the David Roberts Art Foundation, London; Migros Museum, Zurich; Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany; Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing, China; K11 Art Foundation, Hong Kong; M+ Museum,Hong Kong; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Long Museum, Shanghai; National Galleries, Scotland; the collection of LVMH in France.