NICOLE SOLEY

Nicole Soley is a printmaker and book artist currently residing in the Lakes Region of New Hampshire. Since receiving her Bachelors of Science from Minnesota State University, Mankato with a concentration in printmaking in 2017, she has begun her career as an emerging artist with strong roots in the Twin Cities of Minnesota. Soley has maintained an active studio practice starting with several years at Highpoint Center for Printmaking (2017 - 2023) and has embraced her identity as a book artist through a Jerome Residency at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts in Minneapolis (2021 - 2022). Following the residency at MCBA, Soley was grateful to partake as a Jerome Resident at Highpoint Center for Printmaking (2022 - 2023). Following back to back Jerome Residencies in Minneapolis, her and her husband decided to move on from their teaching careers and gratefully start a new chapter as Camp Industry Professionals. Soley is excited to create a way for herself in the old woods of New England. Moreover, she looks forward to residencies nationally and abroad. Her artwork has been featured in exhibitions nationally and internationally including Highpoint’s Outstanding Affiliates Exhibition, Bankside Gallery’s The Masters Screen and Stone, and the Atlanta Print Biennial, to name a few. Her experiences in art making have illuminated printmaking and book arts as spaces of empowerment.

 

Soley utilizes contemporary and traditional printmaking processes to create dynamic, multi-process prints. By creating cut out, printed, paper objects, she synthesizes lived experience and research. Through layering many forms of printmaking and experimenting with paper colors, inks, and three-dimensional formats, viewers interact directly with the artwork, interpreting both personal narrative as well as cultural critiques. Her artwork emboldens the viewer to explore printmaking as a liberating story-telling medium; through the expression of personal narrative in a book arts format, we reach closer toward universal liberation.