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Born 1987, Bogota.
Lives and works in Sydney.
Claudia Nicholson’s practice examines psychic and physical connections to place through multidisciplinary forms of art making including painting, sculpture, installation and performance. She is interested in creating acts of collective remembrance, exploring the ways in which we navigate the complexities of identity in a post-colonial context.
Claudia Nicholson completed both a Master of Fine Arts and a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) from UNSW Art & Design.
In 2014 Nicholson was invited to participate in the 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art Beijing studio residency with Shen Shaomin, spending a month as a guest in Shaomin’s home and studio. This was her second time working with 4A having been the recipient of 4A’s Emerging Artist Award and mentorship in 2011.
In 2014 Nicholson was also artist in residence at Firstdraft Gallery, which facilitated the production of work developed in Colombia for her first solo exhibition ‘Ni Chichi Ni Limonada’. In 2015 she was awarded the Freedman Foundation Travelling Art Scholarship and travelled to Guatemala to research the sawdust carpets made for religious festivals and to investigate Cholo and Chicano culture in Los Angeles.
In 2016 she was part of safARI festival, was artist-in-residence at Casula Power House and produced work for MCA Art Bar and Dark Mofo festival at MONA. She recently worked on the project ‘Women of Fairfield’ commissioned by C3West, MCA, Power House Youth Theatre and STARTTS and was commissioned by Runway Australian Experimental Art to generate new digital work for issue #31 West. She was a 2016 finalist in the Glenfiddich Artist residency prize and recently won the sculpture category of the 2016 Fisher’s Ghost Award at Campbelltown Arts Centre.
Claudia Nicholson was selected to exhibit as part of the biennial event, The National: New Australian Art, and is currently showing new work as part of this project at Carriageworks in Sydney. She was also recently invited to take part in Carriageworks inaugural artist-in-residence program at The Clothing Store in Eveleigh.
In 2016 she was the winner of the sculpture category, Fishers Ghost Award, Campbelltown Arts Centre and a finalist in the Glenfiddich Artist Residency Prize in 2016. Claudia has also been a finalist in the Sir John Sulman Prize at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. In 2019 she was commissioned to create a light work for the facade of the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia as part of Vivid Sydney.