Gainesville, Florida. United States.

Nicole Mazza works with textiles, embroidery, hand-sewn and hand-dyed fabrics. She draws on religious references, soap-opera stereotypes, and elements of pop culture as reflections of human conditioning, contrasting the delicacy of embroidery, historically associated with feminine traditions, with sexualized imagery. Her practice is concerned with the iconography of womanhood as seen through the lens of socially constructed fantasies over time: "She, the constructed, deconstructed and reconstructed woman, devoured and fragmented."

Descended from a first generation of Portuguese immigrants, Nicole learned the traditions of knitting, sewing, and embroidery from her maternal grandmother. She understands sewing as an act of repair, a way of recomposing what has been broken. Her figures often appear twisted: bodies placed in positions of discomfort and impossibility. Limbs intertwine, wrap around one another, reach, and desire. At times, her works depict acts of cannibalism, suggesting the ways in which society consumes women. Her current aesthetic stage interweaves the delicate and the grotesque through an erotic veil, representing ruptures and fissures within the social fabric.

She graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2011, where she studied painting and fiber arts. In 2015, she founded She / Folk, a feminist art collective focused on curatorial projects and publications, dedicated to presenting works by women artists and artists who identify with the female gender. After completing a residency at Fundación ACE in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 2014, Nicole moved to Argentina to focus on her artistic practice and tango.

She has presented her work in Buenos Aires, Rosario, Córdoba, Santiago de Chile, Punta del Este, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Gainesville, in exhibitions and art fairs. She has also participated in fairs such as arteBA (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Frieze (London, United Kingdom), Pinta (Miami, United States), and ARCO Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal), among others.

Her work has been selected for numerous art awards and competitions, including the "Salón Nacional de Artes Visuales - Categoría Textiles" (2026, 2023 and 2022, Argentina), where in 2023 she received a Special Mention from the awards jury for her work "Sobremesa"; "La Fugaz" (2019 and 2022, Rosario, Argentina); and the "Fondo Nacional de las Artes" (2021, Argentina). Her work has been reviewed by Vice Magazine and recognized by The New York Times and The New Yorker.

Her recent solo exhibitions include: "Scripta Plumaria", curated by Tamara Alarcón Castrillejo, at CRUDO (2024, Buenos Aires, Argentina); "Fibration: poking back", curated by Lisa Rockford, at L'SPACE (2024, New York, United States); "Swan Song", at Distortion Society (2024, New York, United States); "Canto del cisne", at Centro Cultural Borges (2023, Buenos Aires, Argentina); "El deseo de no querer", curated by Irene Gelfman, at Quimera Galería, co-produced with CRUDO (2023, Buenos Aires, Argentina); and "Blandir el quiebre", curated by Tamara Alarcón Castrillejo, at CRUDO (2022, Rosario, Argentina).

Selected group exhibitions include: "El tiempo entre las manos", at Centro Cultural Borges (2026, Buenos Aires, Argentina); "Una casa. La casa.", curated by Analía Solomonoff, at Casa Nacional del Bicentenario (2025, Buenos Aires, Argentina); "Veil, Drape and Stitch", curated by Ruth L. Poor, at Zolla/Lieberman Gallery (2024, Chicago, United States); "Beyond the Mirror", at L'SPACE (2024, New York, United States); "Glimpses - We are what we see", curated by Auronda Scalera and Lidia Ravviso within the framework of Frieze London (2022, London, United Kingdom); and "Temporal atemporal", curated by Yuyo Gardiol, at CCD Arte (2022, Punta del Este, Uruguay).

She lives and works in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Press and Digital Publications:

• El canto del cisne en el Centro Cultural Borges, Buenos Aires
• Blandir el quiebre en El Mirador Provincial
• Massive Hand-Stitched Embroideries Show the Kardashians' Last Supper en Vice
• Nicole Mazza en residencia ACE 
• Nicole Mazza en No Tokens
• Féros #02 en Les presses du réel
• The Hive Gallery and Studios: A Thriving Art Community en Art and Cake (Los Angeles)
• Entrevista a Nicole Mazza en Mapart
• Where are the great women artists?: She/Folk at IDIO en A Woomen's Thing. Proyecto de curaduría.
• She/Folk closing party en Idio Gallery. Proyecto de curaduría
• Crossing Over en New York Times
• Crossing Over en Newyorker
• Subtle protest en Artefact Magazine
• These Pussy Pipes Remind Us “We Have Been Smoking Out Of Dicks en A Work Station