Nichole Frocheur earned her BFA from Tisch School of the Arts Department of Photography in 1999 and her MFA in Photography from The University of Arizona, Tucson, in 2001. Her photography delves into the personal, exploring memory, familial relationships, the blending of cultures, and the universal search for home. She has been using the nineteenth century process of wet-collodion on glass since 1998 and has given workshops on the process at the International Center of Photography and the Parsons School of Design, New York, Bennington College, Vermont, and the Rhode Island School of Design. She is an Adjunct Professor at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and the City University of New York College of Staten Island. She was an artist-in-residence at the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester and at chashama's Brooklyn Army Terminal Studios. She was a Fellowship recipient from the Urban Artist Initiative/New York City in 2008.
Her work has been exhibited in France and nationally at venues including: Flux Factory, Nathan Cummings Foundation, NYC; Oualie Art, Orange, NJ; Museum of Contemporary Art, The Joseph Gross Gallery, The Shane House, Tucson, AZ; University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM; McGuffey Art Center, Charlottesville, VA; Lynn Arts, Inc., Boston, MA, among others. A selection of her photographs can be viewed at Umbrella Arts, NYC, and Librairie Serge Plantureux in Paris, France.
CURRENT & UPCOMING:
New work will be included in the faculty exhibition for the Photography + Imaging
Department at the Tisch School of the Arts, on view thru October 8, 2011.
