A'Driane Nieves

Born 1982 in San Antonio, Texas. Lives and works in Greater Philadelphia Area . Founder & Executive Director, Tessera Arts Collective Education 2011 Associate of Arts (AA), Camden County College Solo Exhibitions 2024 Consortium Museum, let's dance our way back home , Dijon, France The Armory Show 2024, Wholeness is Worth its Weight , New York, USA Various Small Fires, self evident truths, Los Angeles, USA 2023 Galerie Marguo, Synaptic Blooming , hosted by Edit Projects, Seoul, South Korea Galerie Marguo, im a Survivor , Paris, France (online) Galerie Marguo, Notes from The Laughing Barrel , Paris, France 2022 Galerie Marguo, Notes from the Healing Circle (online presentation), Paris, France Selected Group Exhibitions 2024 Standing Pine, Resonant Harmonies , Nagoya, Japan 2023 Galerie Marguo, ART021 Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair , Shanghai, China Various Small Fires, Frieze London 2023 , London, UK Galerie Marguo, Home Run, Casa Marguo Inaugural Exhibition , Menorca, Spain Gillian Jason Gallery, Beyond Figuration: There and Now , London, UK BODE Projects, Color Coded , Berlin, Germany Smart Fine Arts, Women in Abstraction , Hong Kong Galerie Marguo, Art Paris 2023 , Paris, France Bode Projects Gallery, Color Coded , Berlin, Germany 2022 Galerie Marguo, ART021 Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair , Shanghai, China Simon Lee Gallery, Frieze London , London, England Simon Lee Gallery, Art Basel , Basel, Switzerland Consortium Museum, The Drawing Center Show , Dijon, France 2021 Galerie Marguo, ART021 Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair , Shanghai, China West Chelsea Contemporary JVN x WCC On the Wall”, Austin, USA Susan Eley Fine Art, Three Abstract Artists , New York, USA 2020 Susan Eley Fine Art, AMERICANA Part II , New York, USA The Delaware Contemporary, From Chaos to Order, Making Our Way in the World of COVID-19 , Wilmington, USA 2019 UICA, SPECTRA , Grand Rapids, USA Girlboss Rally, Perfecting the Journey , Los Angeles, USA Goat Farm Arts Center, Her Ritual , Atlanta, USA 2017 Saatchi Art, The Other Art Fair , New York, USA Rare Device, WOMEN , San Francisco, USA 2016 Dibden Center for the Arts, AWAKEN , Johnson State College, Johnson, Vermont, USA 2015 Wild Goose Festival, Life as Art exhibition & Q&A w/ Frank Schaeffer, Asheville, USA Collections Rennie Museum, Vancouver, Canada X Museum, Beijing, China Dangxia Art Space, Beijing, China Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France Spurs Collection, San Antonio, USA Podo Museum, South Korea Private collections across the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia & Australia Murals & Public Art 2021 Philadelphia Flower Show, Philadelphia, USA 2019 Streets Dept. Walls, Fashion District, Philadelphia, USA Publications 2023 a'driane nieves, notes from the laughing barrel , Marguo Books (essay collection) 2021 Abstractions Magazine ISSUE 001, Tessera Arts Collective 2020 Schiffer Publishing, The Motherhood of Art , Marissa Huber & Heather Kirtland, interview and photos 2019 Create Magazine, Issue XI 2017 Ashley M. Jones, Magic City Gospel , Hub City Press, book cover 2015 Ashlee Wells Jackson, The 4th Trimester Bodies Project , interview and photos Bibliography 2024 Milosevic, Mia, “A’Driane Nieves Dismantles The Policing of Emotionality in self-evident truths @ VSF In Los Angeles,” AUTRE Magazine , March 9. Griffin, Jonathan, “Here’s What Inspired Self-Taught Artist A’Driane Nieves In the Creation of Her First Solo Show,” Cultured , February 27. 2023 Halperin, Julia, “Painting Outside the Lines: 7 Women Pushing the Boundaries of Abstract Art,” W Magazine , December 13. Manning-Schaffel, Vivian, “A’Driane Nieves Embraces the Abstract,” Shondaland , June 29. Erman, Ayse, “LVH In Conversation With A’Driane Nieves,” March 17. 2021 Hines, Bethany, “Painting helped this self-taught artist find balance with bipolar disorder. Now, she’s helping others,” CNN , June 21. Van Ness, Jonathan, “How Did You Become Such An Amazing Artist? with A’Driane Nieves,” Getting Curious with JVN, March 3. (Podcast). 2020 Amataya Studio, “Dear Artist Season 2 Episode 7 with A’Driane Nieves,” Dear Artist Project, May 22. (Podcast). Popova, Ekaterina, “Don’t Be Afraid to Take Up Space,” Create Magazine , April 10. (Podcast) López, Wit, “Curator Close-up, A’Driane Nieves of Tessera Arts Collective, Artblog , March 19. Nelms, Satya, “Drawing Boundaries and Holding Grace: In the Garden with A’Driane Nieves,” Our Mother’s Gardens , March 1. (Podcast). 2019 Buteyn, Kaylan, “Processing trauma, finding your voice, and building a legacy with A’Driane Nieves,” Artist/Mother Podcast , October 28. (Podcast). Nieves, A’Driane, “Streets Dept. Walls: Marrying My Philly & Southwestern Roots For Fashion District Philadelphia,” Medium , September 16. Dark, Natalie,“Meet the Community That Nurtures My Art & Helps Me Build Resilience”, Everyday Health , May 8. Curtis, Tiffany, “Herstory”, Black History Untold . 2018 Curtis, Tiffany Lashai, “New Fishtown Gallery Spotlights Women Artists of Color”, Philadelphia Inquirer , December 4. Blair, Gabrielle, “Creating A Family Charter,” Design Mom , September 6. Harris, Ida, “13 Incredible Black Artists, Past And Present, Everybody Should Know”, Blavity , February 6. “Painting Saved My Sanity,” The Creativity Habit. (Podcast). 2017 KC, “Artist Spotlight: A’Driane Nieves”, Rare Device Blog , May 1. 2016 “A’Driane Nieves on The Future of Art”, The Future According to Women, MISC Magazine . Amanpour, Christiane, “Bono Just Became Glamour’s First Man of the Year,” Glamour Magazine , October 31.