B. 1997, Georgetown Guyana

nickdornellasstudio@gmail.com

IG: @nickdornellas

 

EDUCATION

2021 — The Cooper Union For The Advancement of Science & Art, BFA, New York, NY 

RESIDENCIES & FELLOWSHIPS

2024 — Pentaculum Residency, Arrowmont School of Arts & Crafts, Galtinburg, TN

2024 — Kahn|Mason SIP Fellowship, EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, New York, NY

2023 — Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Artist Fellow, Amherst, VA 

2019 — Penland School of Craft, Weaving Workshop, Bakersville, NC

SELECTED GROUP-EXHIBITIONS 

2024 — Phantasmagoria, Kathryn Markel Fine Art, New York, NY 

2024 — but still bearing visible, Chashama 266, New York, NY 

2024 —  Interwoven, BOB’S Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2023 — I Would Prefer Not To, Art150, Jersey City, NJ

2023 — Illiquid Objects, Studio Nine Dee, New York, NY 

2023 — Remnants of Another, Twelve Gates Arts, Philadelphia, PA 

2022 — Maverick, Magician, Muse, Deli Gallery, New York, NY 

2021 — A Message from the Underground, MANA Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ 

2021 — AND LET THE SUN SEE IT Y QUE EL SOL LA VEA, 41 Cooper Gallery, New York, NY 

2021 — OLA, Cooper Union, New York, NY 

2020 — The Fog of Memory, Redline Satellite, Denver, CO 

2019 — Revisiting Jerseyscapes, Harold B. Lemmerman Gallery, Jersey City, NJ 

2019 — ORIGINS, Snapdragon Coffee & Social, Jersey City, NJ 

2019 — Show & Tell, Northlight Gallery, Bakersville, NC 

2018 — EOYS Showcase, Cooper Union, New York, NY

2018 Fall Printmaking Show, Cooper Union, New York, NY 

2017 — SOL.STUDIOS, Eileen S. Kaminsky Foundation, MANA Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ 

2016 — UN/NATIVE, MANA Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ

PRESS & PUBLICATIONS

06/2023 — ‘Remnants of Another’ at Twelve Gates Arts

                   Vriddhi Vinay for artblog, online publication 

12/2022 — Field Notes—Artist Interview

                  warp and weft magazine, online publication

01/2022 — “A message from the Underground at Mana Contemporary”

                  Maria De Los Angeles for ART SPIEL, online publication 

10/2021 — “My Adrian No.1” 

Suzanne Persard for the Digital Archive of the Indentured Diaspora online publication

ARTIST TALKS

2023 — 2nd Diaspora Conference

            Hosted by the University of Guyana, Georgetown, Guyana  

2022 — EMPOWERING THE SOURCE with Printmaker-Weaver Nick D’Ornellas

            Podcast Hosted by Zak Foster, online publication  

2020 — How to Be Your Own Art Historian

            Artist Talk Hosted by Dr. Sue Shon, Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver, CA


WORK EXPERIENCE 

2023-Present

  • Printmaking Area Manager, CUNY Hunter College, Department of Art & Art History, New York, NY

2023-Present

  • Printmaking Non Teaching Adjunct, CUNY Hunter College MFA Program, Department of Art & Art History, New York, NY

2021-2023

TEACHING

2023-Present

2018-2020

  • Drawing TA, Outreach Pre-College Program, Cooper Union School of Art, New York, NY

2019

  • Drawing Teacher in Residence, A Farms in the Heights Program, Riverview Farmers Market, Jersey City, NJ

  • Linoleum Pattern Printing Workshop, JC Arts High School Program, Jersey City, NJ 

2017

  • Artist Mentor, Sol.Studios, Eileen S. Kaminsky Family Foundation, Jersey City, NJ

AWARDS & SCHOLARSHIPS 

2024 — New Jersey State Council on the Arts Individual Artist Fellow, Mid Atlantic Arts

2023 — YoungArts Creative Microgrant, YoungArts The National Foundation for the Advancement of Artists 

2023 — Individual Artist Fellowship Grant, Jersey City Arts Council 

2021 — Richard Lewis Bloch Memorial Prize, Cooper Union School of Art 

2017 — Hosfeld Gift Art School, Student Affairs at Cooper Union 

2016 — Recipient of Full Tuition Scholarship, The Cooper Union

2016 — Anthony S. Guadadiello Memorial Art Scholarship, Jersey City Board of Education