photo by Lula Bornhak
Curriculum Vitae
1990| Lives & Works in USA and Germany
Education
2012 Corcoran College of Art and Design at George Washington University, BFA
Exhibitions
Upcoming
Nina DeFelice - GUN SHOW, Miejski Ośrodek Sztuk, Municipal Art Center Gorzów
September 2026
Solo
GUN SHOW, Ruino Ruido Foundation, Warsaw
September 2024
2016 Museum Man | Nina DeFelice, Museum Man, Berlin Germany
2013 Formality, ORi Gallery, Berlin Germany
Group Exhibitions
2026, Parenting Climate, Scheune 61 and Silent Rixdorf
2025, Einsame Eltern, Galerie Kungerkiez, Berlin
2023, Kunstsalon, Berlin
2020, Nor Mal, www.spongleheim.com
2017 ARTSHOW, Kunstraum Ossastrasse
2020 London Biennale, AnotherVacantSpace.com, International
2015 Abstract Landscapes, Artspan.com, International
2014 Salon Show, Greenpoint Gallery, New York City
2013 The Pluto in Me part of Berlin Transmediale, Berlin Germany
2013 Free Luck, Berlin Collective, International
2013 Identify, The Cellar Gallery, Berlin Germany
2012 Someplace Art Market, Somelace Gallery, Berlin Germany
2012 Creme de la Corcoran, Area 405 Gallery, Baltimore MD
2012 NEXT: Class of 2012 BFA, Corcoran Museum of Art, DC
2012 Emerging Artists Corcoran BFA Show, The Fridge Gallery, DC
2011 Fine Art Senior Thesis Preview, CCAD, DC
2011 Art Off The Walls, CCAD, DC
2011 Focus, White Walls Gallery, CCAD, DC
2010 Junior Fine Art group show, CCAD, DC
2010 Mona Lisa Tears, White Walls Gallery, CCAD, DC
2010 Student Jurried Exhibition Show, White Walls Gallery, CCAD, DC
2009 Thirty-Six Works, CCAD, DC
Experience
2013 Formality, Curator
2013 Another Vacant Space Gallery, Intern
2012- Present, Berlin Collective, Artist
Awards and Scholarships
2012 Ethel Lorraine Bernstein Memorial Award for Excellence in Painting
2009-2012 Academic Achievement Scholarship, The Corcoran College of Art and Design
Membership
2012- Present, Berlin Collective
2012- Present, Berlin ArtConnect
2009- Present, Corcoran Gallery of Art
Publications
2016 MUSEUM MAN – NINA DE FELICE – BERLIN . 1F Media. http://www.1fmediaproject.net/2016/02/29/museum-man-nina-de-felice-berlin/
2013 Interview with ArtConnect Berlin, Spotlight on Nina DeFelice
http://blog.artconnectberlin.com/2013/07/16/spotlight-on-nina-de-felice/
2013 Video Spotlight Series for Painting 2013, Ikono.org
2012 Hill Rag: Capital Community News, "The Fridge Gallery" 2012
2012 Brightest Young Things, Preview: Corcoran's NEXT 2012, 2012
Nina DeFelice is an American painter and installation artist. She earned her BFA at the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design at George Washington University in 2012 and was the recipient of the 2012 Ethel Lorraine Bernstein Memorial Scholarship. After completing her studies, she moved to Berlin, Germany, where she continues to live and work, exhibiting throughout Europe and collaborating with artists in Berlin.
Her work focuses on themes of nostalgia and cultural influences. Currently, she is creating work examining American gun culture as a cultural export and its effects on language, gestures, behaviour, imagery and everyday habits. Simultaneously, she is working on a series titled In My Belly, which began as an experiment to paint all the vessels in her apartment and, after becoming a mother and becoming a form of a vessel herself, now navigates the emotions withheld between parents and children.
Deutsch
Nina DeFelice ist eine amerikanische Malerin und Installationskünstlerin. 2012 erwarb sie ihren BFA an der Corcoran School of the Arts and Design der George Washington University und erhielt im selben Jahr das Ethel Lorraine Bernstein Memorial Scholarship. Nach Abschluss ihres Studiums zog sie nach Berlin, wo sie bis heute lebt und arbeitet, europaweit ausstellt und mit Künstler:innen in Berlin zusammenarbeitet.
Ihre Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit den Themen Nostalgie und kulturelle Einflüsse. Derzeit entwickelt sie Arbeiten, die die amerikanische Waffenkultur als kulturellen Export und deren Auswirkungen auf Sprache, Gesten, Verhalten, Bildsprache und alltägliche Gewohnheiten untersuchen. Gleichzeitig arbeitet sie an einer Serie mit dem Titel In My Belly, die als Experiment begann, alle Gefäße in ihrer Wohnung zu malen. Nachdem sie Mutter geworden ist und selbst zu einer Form von Gefäß wurde, beschäftigt sich die Serie heute mit den zurückgehaltenen Emotionen zwischen Eltern und Kindern.