Nicole Economides (b. 1992) is an artist and
independent curator based in Athens and New York. She holds an MFA in Fine Arts
from Parsons, The New School and a BFA from the Department of Fine Arts and Art
Sciences at the University of Ioannina (2015). Economides is a recipient of the
Gerondelis Foundation Scholarship, the Elizabeth Greenshields Grant for
Painters and the IBM Grant for Artists in New Media. Her work has been
shown in exhibitions in Greece such as Back to Athens 7, Cheapart
(2020), ABIO, BETON7 Gallery (2016), and Inspire: Effective Spaces,
the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art (MMCA) (2015). She has
participated in multiple group shows in New York such as Life-Giving
Art: 9 Women Artists of the Diaspora, CUNY (2020) and Beneath Them Was
Forever, Westbeth Gallery (2019). She was an artist in residence at the
Agora Collective, Berlin in late 2016. The artist also
maintains a collaborative practice with Natalia Almonte, called Paradoxluxe, a
collective that critically engages the reductive perceptions of Greece
and Puerto Rico. They co-curated the exhibition, We Are Here To Serve You(2020) at the Arnold & Sheila Aronson Galleries in Manhattan, that is
traveling to Pública: in San Juan, Puerto Rico (2022) followed by Athens,
Greece (2022). The exhibition What is Real?, which she co-curated
with Nicole Economides and Tunie Betesh, is currently on view at The Real House
in Brooklyn, NY.
