• Overview
    Communion (Love Me Tender), 2025, Oil on canvas, 46 x 36 cm
    Communion (Love Me Tender), 2025, Oil on canvas, 46 x 36 cm

    Central to her practice is the re-contextualization of images drawn from her expanding personal archive, sourced from films, found photographs, and online forums.

    Nicolina Morra is a painter who investigates longing as a driving force in the human experience. She graduated from Florida State University in 2025 with a BFA in studio art and an emphasis on painting. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

    In her work, she recontextualises images and disrupts and imbues them with new meanings with her painting technique, often paired with hyper-realistic depictions of other objects. Her work has been featured in several exhibitions in various institutions and independent spaces in the United States, including Latitude Gallery in New York (2026), Allgorithim House, Hollywood (2025), Impossible Currency, Atlanta (2025), LeMieux galleries, New Orleans (2025) and a solo exhibition Ruby/Dakota gallery, New York (2025).

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  • Biography
    Portrait of Nicolina Morra
    Portrait of Nicolina Morra

    EDUCATION

     

    2025

    Bachelor’s in Fine Arts, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida

     

      

    SOLO EXHIBITIONS

     

    2025

    • Ruby/Dakota gallery, New York, NY

     

     

    SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

     

    2026

    • Enari gallery, Amsterdam, NL, "Sweet Surrender" 

    2025              

    • The New York Academy of Art, New York, NY, “The AXA Art Prize US Exhibition”
    • Impossible Currency, Atlanta, GA, “Blue Blue Blue Blue Blue”
    • LeMieux Galleries, New Orleans, LA, “So Real”
    • Working Method Contemporary, Tallahassee, FL, “Everything I’ve Ever Known”
    • Point Blank, Chicago, IL, “Slipcover”
    • Venvi Art Gallery, Tallahassee, FL, “Locust Technician”
    • Bascom Centre for the Visual Arts, Highlands, NC, “Emergence”
    • Field Projects, New York, NY, “Echo Locator”

     

    2024          

    • Art Centre Sarasota, Sarasota, FL, “Trompe L’oeil”
    • Jag Gallery, Key West, FL, “Small Works”
    • Phyllis Straus Gallery, Tallahassee, FL, “Reserves”
    • La Luz de Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, “Everything But the Kitchen Sink”
    • Thomasville Centre for the Arts, Thomasville, GA, “THOM Collective”
    • Gadsden Arts Centre & Museum, Quincy, FL, “Bite From the Apple”

                           

    2023          

    • William Johnston Building Gallery, Tallahassee, FL, “Paracosm”
    • Phyllis Straus Gallery, Tallahassee, FL, “Flowing Substances”

                                       

    2022              

    • Phyllis Straus Gallery, Tallahassee, FL, “Art From the Home”

     

    AWARDS & HONORS 

     

    2025

    • AXA Art Prize Finalist
    • Honors, Scholars, & Fellows Excellence in Visual Arts Award
    • Career Preparation in the Arts Fund Scholarship

     

    2024

    • Mary Brown Ostlund Award
    • Bess H. Ward Honors Thesis Award
    • IDEA Grant Undergraduate Research Award

     

     

    PRESS

     

    2025         

    • Serena Hanzhi Wang, “Precise, Controlled Weirdness at Ruby/Dakota”, Cultbytes

    Karla Menendez, “This Is the One With Magic”, Primary Colors Substack

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