Born in France, educated in the United States. Alumnae of Barnard College, New York. For the past thirty years, a full-time painter and sculptor, living in East Hampton and New York City.
EDUCATION
Barnard College, New York, NY
Corcoran Gallery, Washington, DC
Art Students’ League, New York, NY
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Victor D’Amico Institute of Art, Amagansett, NY
Arline Wingate’s Studio, East Hampton, NY
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010NY Cornell University Hospital
2008Hampton Road Gallery, Southampton, NY
2006Nicole Bigar/Recent Works: My Journey from Past to
Sand Sculpture on Canvas, QuiNY/Narrow Gallery, New
York, NY
2003Songs of Songs, MOCA DC, Museum of Contemporary
Art, Washington, DC
2002Festival at Louis XIV’s Court, Paradise Café, Sag
Harbor, NY
1999Goddess, Gallery Harry Stendhal, New York, NY Nabi
Gallery, Sag Harbor, NY
MOCA DC, Museum of Contemporary Art, Washington
DC
1996Terra Cotta-Creatures, Elaine Benson Gallery,
Bridgehampton, NY
1995 Norwegian Fjords, Pharos Gallery, New York, NY
1993Athena Fine Arts, New York, NY
1992Athena Fine Arts, New York, NY
1991Mythology Paintings-Earth Mothers, Benton Gallery,
Southampton, NY
1989Nicole Bigar: Mythology Paintings, Benton Gallery,
Southampton, NY
1988Benton Gallery, Southampton, NY
1987Nicole Bigar/Recent Paintings, Benton Gallery,
Southampton, NY
1986Benton Gallery, Southampton, NY
Elaine Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY
1985Nicole Bigar/Ceramic Sculpture, Elaine Benson Gallery,
Bridgehampton, NY
1984Barbara Ingber, Bridgehampton, NY
1982Biennale Suisse, Gemini Gallery, Lausanne, Switzerland
1981Elaine Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY
1980Elaine Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY
1978 Randall Gallery, New York, NY
1977 Randall Gallery, New York, NY
1975Upstairs Gallery, New York, NY
1974Koukoumanias, Upstairs Gallery, East Hampton, NY
1972Phyllis Radcliff Gallery, New York, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2006Women at the Laundry, East Hampton, NY
2005International Women Artists, Galleria Tondinelli, Rome,
Italy
It’s About Time, The Art Barge-50th Year, Ashawagh
Hall East Hampton, NY
Artists’ Beit Midrash, Skirball Center, New York, NY
2004Juried Show, Elaine Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton
Elaine Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY
2003Firenze Biennale, Florence, Italy
Artrageous, Edwin Gould Services for Women and
Children,
New York, NY
Artists of the Springs, Invitational Exhibition, East
Hampton, NY (every year since 1980)
Guild Hall Member Show, East Hampton, NY (every
year since 1980)
Box Art Auction, East End Hospice, Hamptons, NY (also
2001 and 2002)
2002Text Still Speaks, Skirball Center, New York, NY
2001Remembering: A Hamptons Art History/Part I, Elaine
Benson
Gallery and Sculpture Garden Bridgehampton, NY
From the City of Dreams, Nabi Gallery, East Hampton,
Thanksgiving Show, Nabi Gallery, East Hampton, NY
Hartfelt, Arlene Bujese Gallery, East Hampton, NY
1998Artscope, Bronze in Garden, East Hampton, NY
Gallery Stendhal, New York, NY
Wall to Wall, Arlene Bujese Gallery, East Hampton, NY
Contemporary Narrative, Arlene Bujese Gallery, East
Hampton, NY
1997East Hampton Alliance Springs Invitational Exhibition, East
Hampton, NY (every year)
Dimensions: Drawings and Sculpture, Arlene Bujese
Gallery, East Hampton, NY
Artists for Guild Hall Auction, East Hampton, NY
1996Guild Hall Member Show, East Hampton, NY
1992Artscope, Bronze in Garden, East Hampton, NY
1987Olivier Nouvellet, Paris, France
1984Channel 13 Auction Show, Sotheby’s, NY
1975Artists of Suffolk County, Hecksher Museum of Art,
Huntington, NY
1970Mural for Election of McGovern, Guild Hall, East
Hampton, NY
The Figure Explored, Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY
The Laundry, Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY
LITERATURE
Archives of National Museum of Women in the Arts
SPECIAL EVENTS
1997Music Festival of the Hamptons. Benefit March 25, invitation: Flutist
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY
Lees Junior College, Jackson, KY
New York Public Library, New York, NY
New York Scandinavian Foundation Collection, New York, NY
CORPORATE COLLECTIONS
Belmont International, New York, NY
Private collections available upon request only
