Luca Nicholas (b. 1997 Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa) is an artist working in intaglio, screenprinting, monoprinting, and drawing. His work often explores conversations that emerge from retail, ‘the archive’, and fashion. Nicholas is interested in how value is ascribed within these fields. He is curious how print’s proximities to care and accident might queer our understanding of these spaces. Nicholas enacts this queering through implicit modes of touch, embrace, trace, and failure that are associated with printmaking.
Solo Exhibitions
2025
Hand Over Fist, Season Gallery, Auckland, NZ
2021
Studies 2017 - 2018, Visions Gallery, Auckland, NZ (solo)
2020
Triple Axel, Visions Gallery, Auckland, NZ
Group Exhibitions
2026
Hero Parade, Season Aotearoa, Auckland, NZ
2025
Molly Morpeth Canaday Awards Finalist Exhibition 2025, MMCA, Whakatāne, NZ
2023
Schengen, Valentiny Foundation, Schengen, Luxembourg
NZ Painting and Printmaking Awards Finalists Exhibition 2023, Waikato Society of Arts, Hamilton, NZ
2022
twisting, turning, winding: takatāpui + queer objects, Objectspace, Auckland, NZ
2020
NZ Painting and Printmaking Awards Finalist Exhibition 2020, Waikato Society of Arts, Hamilton, NZ
Matariki MVA Graduate Exhibitions, ST Paul Street Gallery, Auckland, NZ
Groundwork, Corban Estate Arts Centre, Auckland, NZ
Residencies
2024 Frans Masereel Centrum Artist Residency Program Kasterlee, Belgium
Awards
2025
Molly Morpeth Canaday Art Awards (MMCA) Merit Award
2020
New Zealand Painting and Printmaking Awards (NZPPA) Ruth Davey Merit in Printmaking Award
Education
Master of Visual Arts (First Class Honours), Auckland University of Technology, 2020
Bachelor of Visual Arts, Auckland University of Technology, 2018