Nicole Margaretten
Biography


Ms. Margaretten's work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions, including the Tufts University Art Gallery, the Boston Conservatory, Resonance FM, broadcasting from London, England, and the Fort Point Artist Community Gallery. This December her thirteen-telephone phone booth will be at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston to honor AIDS Awareness. She also enjoys collaborating with other artists; in 2003 she recorded and designed the sound for Anna Schuleit's flower-filled installation Bloom commemorating the closure of The Massachusetts Mental Health Center.


Nicole Margaretten has received two grants from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, including a travel grant to study through drawing and sound the jungles and rainforests in Colombia. She has also received awards and scholarships from Pratt Institute and the 1998 Overture Awards. During July and August of 2002, she was an artist resident at Adelaide Central Studios in Adelaide, South Australia.

Nicole attended Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY, receiving a BFA in 2002 and in May 2005 she completed her MFA from Tufts University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts.
Nicole Margaretten
Artist Statement
Nicole Margaretten uses visual art and sound to direct awareness towards social and environmental devastation in society. The current focus of her work is divided into two overlapping themes, environmental destruction resulting from human behavior and the creation of work that responds to historical and contemporary trauma.

Concepts are expressed through two-dimensional work and mixed media installation, designed to immerse and surround viewers with sound in painted rooms and colored lighting. Humor combined with excess allows for ugly aspects of humanity to be brought sharply to people's attention.
Nicole Margaretten
Curriculum Vitae
Selected Exhibitions
The Museum of Fine Arts Boston. A four-day exhibition dedicated to AIDS Awareness,
including The Bleak Oasis, an interview based sound sculpture. November 2005.
Tufts University Art Gallery. “Convulsion Extinction” MFA Thesis Exhibition.
Medford, MA. May 3-22, 2005.
Fort Point Artist Community. “Liminal Spaces: Constructing Home (Going Home)” with
Kathy A. Halamka. Boston, MA. November 5-December 11, 2004.
Harris A. Berman Diversity Gallery, Tufts Health Plan. “Cuba.” Watertown, MA.
September 2003.
Resonance FM. 104.4 FM. “Out of the Blue Radio” Two 30-minute sound pieces.
London, England. April 12, 2003 and July 7, 2003.

Honors and Awards
MFA Travel Grant. The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, to record sound and
draw in the Colombian and Venezuelan jungles and rainforest. December 8, 2004.
MFA Scholarship Grant. The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. April 4, 2003.
Artist-in-Residence. Adelaide Central Studios. Adelaide, South Australia.
July 24-August 20, 2002.
Merit Scholarships for the visual arts from Pratt Institute and the 1998 Overture Awards.

Education
Tufts University in affiliation with the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA.
Masters in Fine Arts and Museum Studies Certificate. May 2005.
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY. Bachelor of Fine Arts with Highest Honors. October 2002.

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