Contact:
nicholasmoenich@gmail.com
@nich_moe_nich
The paintings weave figuration and abstraction into a constructed psychological space, drawing on sources such as medieval illuminated manuscripts, modernist painting, comics, and music. By emphasizing the frame and compressing the pictorial space, shapes that read as text or characters intertwine to examine the anxiety of the creative act and the passage of time. Balancing tangible material presence against believable depth, these fragmented compositions become a metaphor for the hyper-stimulated and interconnected experience of contemporary daily life.
Nicholas Moenich was born in Cleveland, Ohio and received a BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art and a MFA from Hunter College.
He is a 2023 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grantee, a 2021 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Painting from The New York Foundation for the Arts and a 2019-2020 recipient of the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program Award. He was awarded the Tony Smith Award in 2011, the 2019 Hopper Prize, and the 2020 Lighthouse Works Fellowship. He has been a guest lecturer at the University of Cincinnati, the University of New Mexico and a visiting artist resident at Anderson Ranch in Snowmass Village, Colorado.
Exhibitions include: Soft Structures, Andrea Festa, Rome, Italy (2026); Nicholas Moenich: Drawings, Picture Theory, New York, NY (2025); Holiday, Harper’s, New York, NY (2024); Vagabond Shoes, McBride Contemporain, Montreal, Canada (2024); Friends & Family at Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY (2023); Escher’s Lovers: Lauren Clay & Nicholas Moenich at KDR305, Miami, FL (2022); Nicholas Moenich: Eyes and Teeth at 1969 Gallery, New York, NY (2021); Nicholas Moenich: over-under at Furnace, Falls Village, CT (2021).
Press includes New American Paintings, Maake Magazine, Art Maze Magazine, Artspace, Hyperallergic, and Two Coats of Paint.