Photograph by Lilah Benetti
Nicolas Lambelet Coleman is a Swiss-American painter. His work broadly encompasses portraiture, still-life, and interior scenes.
Excerpt from a written exhibition introduction by Celeste Marcus (2023): "Delight is the variety of gratification which suffuses and vivifies every inch of the surfaces in Coleman's paintings. This is by design. It is a cultivated delight, consciously developed and sustained by the artist – a delight in the materials he uses in combination with the subjects he chooses to capture... There is no object, animate or otherwise, in a Coleman canvas that has not been lavished with attention. The choices that he makes, his compositions, his colors, how he renders certain shapes, the thickness and wetness of his paint, all are made with one objective: to create an image every inch of which is consistently beautiful and interesting. Representation is not his goal. He is not trying to recreate the universe in which we live: he is instead building his own universe, a universe which is the product of his peculiar, intimate relationship with his medium. His people are not made of flesh and blood. They are made of paint." Nicolas is originally from North Carolina and currently lives in California where he is a J.D. Candidate at Stanford Law School. 
Photograph by Lilah Benetti
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Nicolas Lambelet Coleman (b. 1998 in Durham, NC) [email protected] Featured in the permanent collection of the Nasher Museum of Art Education Phillips Exeter Academy '16 Duke University, Political Science '20 Stanford Law School, J.D. Candidate '28 Residencies Black Rock Senegal in Dakar (Spring 2024) Artist in Residence at PM/AM in London, UK (Summer 2023) Press The Best Booths at 1-54 London's 2024 Edition - ARTnews 1-54 London 2024 Brings New Voices of Contemporary African Art to the Fore - Artsy Interview in The Lausanner Magazine, Summer/Autumn 2024, no. 13, pp. 48-49. Nomad St. Moritz 2024: il meglio di questa edizione - Architectural Digest Italia New American Paintings, Issue #166 (South), 2023 Nicolas Lambelet Coleman, un artiste qui voit clair - 24Heures Art Shows to See in London, New York, and LA this August 2023 - Dazed Nicolas Coleman Illustrates His Latest Explorations Into the Psychology of Geography and Travel - Elephant Magazine Black Rock Senegal, Kehinde Wiley's Closely Watched Artist Residency, Has Welcomed a New Class of 16 Artists--Meet Them Here - Artnet Nicolas Coleman's paintings of Morocco celebrate the beauty of travel while probing the ethics of tourism - It's Nice That The Next Big Thing? Here Are 6 Breakout Artists to Watch From the 1-54 Art Fair in Marrakech -Artnet L'Artiste De Demain - ELLE (Belgium), April 2023 Exhibition History Portrait of an America Family (Group Show), A Selection from the Barnes Contemporary at SEPTIEME Gallery, Paris, France. April 2025 I Am All the Loves I Have Ever Known (Group Show), Sakhile&Me, Frankfurt, Germany. November 2024 - February 2025 This Ocean Brought Us Here (Solo Booth), 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, London. October 2024 (works represented by PM/AM, London) Encounters (Group Show), Exhibition by Black Rock Senegal for the Dak'Art Biennale, May 2024 Songbirds of the South, Solo Booth at EXPO Chicago represented by Thierry Goldberg, April 2024 Sanctuaries (Group Show), EDJI Gallery, Brussels, Belgium, February 2024 Untitled Miami Beach, Group Show represented by PM/AM, December 2023 Clear Blue, Solo Show of Watercolors, at Foreign Agent, Lausanne, Switzerland, November 2023 Solo Exhibition at PM/AM, London, July 2023 'Friends & Family' Group Show at Thierry Goldberg, New York July 2023 'What Now?' Group Show at PM/AM, London, June 2023 Solo Exhibition at Thierry Goldberg, New York, May 2023 A Stranger in Morocco (Solo Booth), 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, Marrakech, Morocco. February 2023 (works represented by Foreign Agent, Lausanne) Moretto (Solo Show), Steve Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. December 2022-January 2023 Future Fair, The Holiday Market (Andrea Festa, Rome). December 2022 The Power to Dream, Galerie Hussenot. Paris, France. November 2022-January 2023 Summer Flings, Group Exhibition at Foreign Agent. Lausanne, Switzerland 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, New York, New York. May 2022 33rd September, The Alexandria Museum of Art, Alexandria, Louisiana (2020) Duke University Visual Arts Senior Capstone Exhibition. Fall 2019-Spring 2020. Durham, North Carolina Cooperstown Art Association, 83rd National Juried Art Exhibition, Cooperstown, New York. GreenHill Center, Winter Show, December 2, 2018 - January 18, 2019. Greensboro, North Carolina |