WattsOS
TA
The Abolitionists in the Park
2020 · Oil on canvas
10 ft. 8 1/4 in. × 8 ft. 9 1/8 in. (325.8 × 267 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
WATTS INDEXThe canonical database of visual culture
Nicole Eisenman
1965
PaintingContemporary
Representation
None documented
0
Institutional Exhibitions
12
Works in Collection
54
Assets Indexed
14
Authority-backed Facts
0
Publications Referenced
80%
Profile Completeness
Cultural Positioning
Movements
- • Contemporary
Related Artists
No edges recorded
Influence Graph
No influence edges encoded yet.
About
Why this artist matters now
Nicole Eisenman works primarily in oil paint and sculpture, producing figurative work that reasserts the human form with psychological weight and social acuity. Born in France and based in the United States, her paintings draw on the full lineage of Western figurative tradition while absorbing vernacular humor, queer identity, and political unease. She received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2015, cited for restoring cultural significance to figuration during an era dominated by abstraction. Her work has been shown at the Whitney Biennial on three separate occasions and recognized with the Carnegie Prize in 2013.
Source: Vielmetter · Trust score: 100% · Updated 1mo ago
Graph relationships
Taste overlap and adjacency
Movement
Contemporary
Medium
Painting
Related Artists
12 in graph
Institutional
Museum Collections
Canonical record
Artworks (12)
View all 12 artworks →
Record
Images
9 assets
View all 9 media items →
Related artists
Adjacent in the graph
Lebohang Kganye
Shared movement
Torkwase Dyson
Shared movement
Sanford Biggers
Shared movement
Alicja Kwade
Shared movement
Hermann Nitsch
Shared movement
Roger Ballen
Shared movement
Lisa Yuskavage
Also painting
Robert Ryman
Also painting
Adolph Gottlieb
Also painting
Jasper Johns
Also painting
Neo Rauch
Also painting
Richard Artschwager
Also painting
Record
Movements and affiliations
Institutional
Representation & Collections
In collection
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
In collection
Cleveland Museum of Art
In collection
Art Institute of Chicago
In collection
Whitney Museum of American Art
Market
Auction sale history
Houses that have sold works by this artist at auction
Background
Education
Rhode Island School of Design
Visual Arts
Scarsdale High School
Visual Arts
Record
Exhibitions and timeline
No exhibitions or timeline entries yet