Nicole Pietrantoni (b. 1981, USA) is an artist best known for her colorful paper sculptures made from printed accordion books. Her work combines traditional printmaking and bookbinding techniques with painting, photography, and sculpture.
Pietrantoni is the recipient of numerous awards including a Fulbright to Iceland, an Artist Trust Fellowship, a Leifur Eiriksson Foundation Grant, the Manifest Prize, and a finalist for the Art Prize of the City of Barcelona. Pietrantoni has been awarded artist residencies at Meta Open Arts, the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, and La Maldita Estampa in Barcelona, Spain, amongst others.
Pietrantoni has been a visiting artist and lecturer at over 40 institutions and her work has been exhibited in over 100 national and international exhibitions, including solo shows at the San Juan Islands Museum of Art (San Juan Island, WA) and the Manifest Gallery (Cincinatti, OH). Group venues include exhibitions at Galerie Gardette (curated by The Curators, Paris, France), Galleri Heike Arndt (Berlin, Germany), The Ashurst Emerging Artist Prize Shortlist Exhibition (London, UK), Lia Libro de Artista (Guadalajara, Mexico), the San Francisco Center for the Book (San Francisco, CA), and American University Museum (Washington, DC). Pietrantoni’s art has been included in publications including Art in Print, The Washington Post, and featured in the book American Printmakers (Schiffer Publishing). Pietrantoni’s artwork is in collections such as Yale University, the Library of Congress, Washington State Arts Commission, Meta, and the Zuckerman Museum of Art, amongst others.
Pietrantoni received her MFA and MA in Printmaking from the University of Iowa and her BS in Human and Organizational Development and Art History from Vanderbilt University. Pietrantoni taught printmaking and book arts for over a decade at institutions including the University of Iowa, the University of Montana, and Whitman College. Now she operates her own studio business in beautiful Girona, Spain, where she works on site-specific commissions and installs her art around the world. She is represented in the US by Long Sharp Gallery.
nicole.pietrantoni@gmail.com