NICOLE CHAPUT
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CDMX, MEXICO, 1995
She holds a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2018) and participated in the Skowhegan School
of Painting and Sculpture (ME, 2019). Chaput has received grants and fellowships from the former institutions;
as well as a grant by the Foundation for Contemporary Arts (NY, 2020) for experimental artists and the Young
Creator’s Grant awarded by the National Fund for Culture and the Arts twice (Mexico, 2018-2019 and 2024-2025).
Her work has been shown in the United States, United Kingdom, Brazil, Australia, Puerto Rico and Mexico. Recent
solo exhibitions include Embalsamada con picante (Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, 2024); Convent Carpaccio
(Galería Agustina Ferreyra, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2023); Mi madre es un ventilador con cara de vaca (Biquini Wax,
Mexico City, 2022); and Venus Atómica (Galería Karen Huber, Mexico City, 2021). She has been included in numerous
group exhibitions at Mendes Wood DM (São Paulo, BR); Deli Gallery (Mexico City, MX); Museo Cabañas (Jalisco, MX);
Sullivan Galleries (Chicago, IL); Antiguo Colegio San Ildefonso (Mexico City, MX); Disneyland Paris (Melbourne,
AUS); Chalton Gallery (London, UK); among many others. Her work has been reviewed in various publications such
as Artforum, Frieze and Terremoto.
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Nicole Chaput creates speculative anatomies for those who call
themselves women. She compares the artifice involved in the construction of the feminine in
western visual culture to how the painting tradition has finessed representation to animate its
canvases. Without denying these imposed definitions, her practice reevaluates the
iconographic histories of women, in an arduous and violent negotiation with new ways of selfrepresentation.
Chaput’s depictions of feme bodies resist being slashed by a picture frame.
Their physical support becomes a sculptural element that morphs images into pictorial bodies.
As with pearls, Nicole Chaput’s paintings generate their own forms, guided by their desire to
exist in the shell of anomaly.
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Selected Solo Exhibitions:
• 2024: Embalsamada con picante, Cur ated by Is abel Sóndereguer, Museo de Ar te Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, MX.
• 2023: Convent Carp accio, Galería Agust ina Ferreyra, San Juan, P uerto Rico.
• 2022: Mi madre es un ventilador con cara de vaca, Curated by Aurélie Vandewynckele, Biquini Wax EPS, Mexico City,
Selected Group Exhibitions and Fairs:
• 2026: Deseos Diferentes, Cur ated by Dorothée Dupuis, Museo Cabañas, Guadalajar a, Mexico.
-El Cantar del Caos-Mundo, Cur ated by Helena Lugo and Luis Gr aham, Casa del Lago, UNAM, Mexico City.
• 2025: BE-LONGING, Mercedes Benz Ar t Collect ion, Curated by P olina Stroganova, Mexico City, MX.
-Ar te en Movimiento: Jóvenes Creadores, Centro Cul tural San R oque, Puebla, Mexico.
• 2024: Fe y Alegría, Galería Agust ina Ferreyra, Mexico City, MX.
-Material Ar t Fair, Terremoto, Expo R eforma, Mexico City, MX.
• 2023: Linhas T ortas, Curated by Diana Campbell, Mendes W ood DM, São P aulo, BR.
• 2021: Hacer algo de la nada, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, MX.
Awards, Achievements, and Residencies:
• 2024–2025: Jóvenes Creadores Gr ant (Painting), Sistema Nac ional de Creac ión Ar tística (SNCA), MX.
• 2024: Shor tlist for CIFO Gr ants and Commis sions, Emerging Ar tist Award, FL, USA.
• 2020: Relief Grant, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, NY, USA. 2019: Fellowship, Skowhegan School of Painting
and Sculpture, MA, USA.
Collections:
• Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, MX.
• Collection Famille Servais, Brus sels, BE.
• Fundación M (Mo isés Cosio Espinosa), Mexico City, MX