Nicholas D’Ornellas (b. 1997) is a Guyanese-born artist and educator based in Jersey City, NJ and New Haven, CT. He is an MFA candidate in Painting/Printmaking at the Yale School of Art and holds a BFA (2021) from The Cooper Union. His work uses printmaking as a vehicle for life-size handwoven screen-printed textiles that explore domestic immigrant narratives. It pays homage to his ongoing interest in the functionality of craft and his family's flight from racial and classist violence in Guyana. His hand weaving can be understood as both rehearsal and transformation of memory.

D’Ornellas has recently exhibited at the Montclair Art Museum and Kathryn Markel Fine Art. He has been an artist in residence at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts and the Virginia Center for Creative Arts. He is a recipient of the EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop Kahn|Mason SIP Fellowship and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship. He previously taught printmaking at 92NY Art Center and served as Printmaking Area Manager in the Department of Art & Art History at Hunter College in New York, NY.

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