Website: http://www.nicolemone.com
Nicole Moné is an award-winning, American artist currently living and painting in Westchester, New York. Her paintings incorporate elements of both Realism and Impressionism. She often uses humor or nostalgia as she endeavors to make an emotional connection between painting and viewer.
Nicole’s representational paintings reside in collections throughout the United States and abroad, and have been featured in the magazines, American Art Collector, American Artist, The Artist’s Magazine, Fine Art Connoisseur, Plein Air, and PoetsArtists, as well as in China’s Collections Magazine. Among her exhibitions, Nicole has shown at the MEAM Museum - European Museum of Modern Art (Barcelona, Spain), the Museo Pablo Serrano (Zaragoza, Spain), the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles, Sotheby’s Auction House in Los Angeles, New York’s Salmagundi Club, the National Arts Club (NYC), and at the Butler Institute of American Art (Youngstown, OH). Some of Nicole’s works were also used in Season 4 of the SHOWTIME crime drama, Ray Donovan.
Nicole has studied in Italy, at the Florence Academy of Art, and in New York, at the School of Visual Arts where she studied portraiture with Marvin Mattelson, and at the Art Students League where she studied with painters Aaron Shikler and Everett Raymond Kinstler. Additionally she has studied with painters Max Ginsberg and Jeremy Lipking.
Nicole's work was featured on the cover of the Jan/Feb 2022 issue of "Artists Magazine" and, for the second consecutive year, she was awarded 2nd Place Portrait/Figure in the Artists Magazine 38th Annual Competition.
A few other notable awards and honors:
*Gold Medal of Honor - Allied Artists of America
*Gold Medal of Honor - Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club
*Frank C. Wright Medal of Honor - American Artists Professional League
*Newington Award for Best Painting in Show - American Artists Professional League
*Grand Prize - American Women Artists Members Spring Exhibition
*Grand Prize - Sedona Art Prize International Painting Competition
*Best in Show - Salmagundi Club
*Anna Hyatt Huntington Bronze Horse Head Award for Best In Show - CLWAC
*Anna Hyatt Huntington Bronze Medal - CLWAC
*BP semi-finalist 2015
For a full list of exhibitions and awards please visit www.nicolemone.com
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