Nicole Wittenberg was born in 1979 in San Francisco, California. She received a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute.
Her recent solo and group exhibitions include "A Sailboat in the Moonlight" at Ogunquit Museum of American Art in Ogunquit, Maine (2025); "Cheek to Cheek" at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art in Rockland, Maine (2025); "Ain't Misbehavin'" at Maison La Roche in Paris, France (2025); "Trav’lin’ Light" at The Journal Gallery in Patmos, Greece (2024); "We’ve got forever" at Massimo De Carlo in Milan, Italy (2024); "Human Nature" at The Journal Gallery in Los Angeles, California (2024); "Jumping' at the Woodside" at Fernberger Gallery in Los Angeles, California (2024); Tennis Elbow at The Journal Gallery in New York, New York (2023); "Flesh & Flowers: Made in America" curated by Lauren Taschen at No Name in Paris, France (2023); "Distant Waters" at Nina Johnson Gallery in Miami, Florida (2023); "Moonshine Lullaby" at Massimo De Carlo in London, United Kingdom (2023); "Our Love is Here to Stay" at Acquavella Galleries in Palm Beach, Florida (2022); Tennis Elbow at The Journal Gallery in New York, New York (2022); "Honeysuckle Rose" at Ross + Kramer in East Hampton, New York (2021); "Rewilding" at Nino Mier Gallery in Los Angeles, California (2021); "Sunday Kind of Love" at Nina Johnson Gallery in Miami, Florida (2020); Tennis Elbow at The Journal Gallery in New York, New York (2020); "In Her Hands" curated by David Salle at Skarstedt Gallery in New York, New York (2020); "Them, There, Eyes" at Yours Mine Ours Gallery in New York, New York (2018); "Downtown Painting" at Peter Freeman Gallery in New York, New York (2019); "Visionary Painting" curated by Alex Katz at Colby College Museum of Art in Waterville, Maine (2017); and "All the Best People" at 1:1 Gallery in New York, New York (2013).
Wittenberg is a recipient of the John Koch Award for Best Young Figurative Painter from the American Academy of Arts and Letters (2012). Her work is held in public collections including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, New York; Aïshti Foundation in Beirut, Lebanon; The Albertina in Vienna, Austria; Boston Museum of Fine Art in Boston, Massachussetts; Bowdoin College Museum of Art in Brunswick, Maine; Colby College Museum of Art in Waterville, Maine; Columbus Museum of Art in Columbus, Ohio; Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, Maine; Female Artists of the Mougins Museum in Mougin, France; High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia; and Portland Museum of Art in Portland, Maine.
Nicole Wittenberg lives and works in New York, New York.