nicolewardstudio@gmail.com
Born: Belfast, North of Ireland (NIR)
Lives & works: Oslo, Norway (NO)
Education
2021-23
MFA Masters in Fine Art, Oslo National Academy of the Arts (KHiO), NO
2016-17
School of the Damned (Class of 2017), Free alternative art school, UK*
2006-09
1st Class BA (Hons) Fine Art, University College Falmouth, Cornwall, UK
2005-06
BTEC Diploma Foundation Studies in Art & Design, Limavady College, NIR
Solo Exhibitions
2028
Title TBC, BABEL, Trondheim, NO (forthcoming)
2027
Title TBC, Pachinko, Oslo, NO (forthcoming)
2025
"SMALL TALKING", Centralbanken, Oslo, NO
2023
Never not doing something, Akademirommet, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, NO
2014
CRKSI, Studio36, Spike Island, Bristol, UK*
2013-2014
Shiny Black Thoroughbred, Tenderpixel, London, UK*
2013
Overdubbed Scenes, CRATE, Margate, UK*
Free Home Delivery, Malonioji 6, Vilnius, LT*
Sharp Like a Horizontal Guillotine, Nida Art Colony, LT*
2011
As Seen From Ground Level, The Motorcycle Showroom, Bristol, UK*
Send in the Reserves, Motorcade/FlashParade, Bristol, UK*
Group Exhibitions
2027
Title TBC (curated by Salomé Burstein), BO (Billedkunstnerne i Oslo), Oslo, NO (forthcoming)
Title TBC (curated by Mikael Damstuen Brkic), Oslo Kunstforening, Oslo, NO (forthcoming)
2026
Whorl (as part of Oslo Art Weekend), Snails, Oslo, NO
2025
Flat Earth Film Festival: the 8th edition, Seyðisfjörður, IS (screening)
Escargatoire, Snails, Oslo, NO
2024
Narrative Cloggers (FKDS duo exhibition with Anna Clawson, Kunstnernes Hus (Loftet), Oslo, NO
2023
Free Education For All; It's Not Too Late To Change Your Mind, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo
The Art of Mirrors (curated by Greg Pope), Atelier Nord, Oslo, NO
2022
Waiting to go upstairs, Akademirommet, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, NO
2021
Use your heart like a telephone, Interkulturelt Museum, Oslo, NO
2019
Public Posture (as part of QWAK CLUB #3), Cube Microplex, Bristol, UK*
2018
Togetherness, Royal West of England Academy (RWA), Bristol, UK*
2017
DEBUNK, Arnolfini, Bristol, UK*
Scissors Cut Paper Wrap Stone, Ormston House, Limerick, IRL*
100% Certified Absolute Genuine Official Degree Show, The Royal Standard, Liverpool, UK*
2016
EBC Takeover (as part of Art Licks Weekend), The Bomb Factory, London, UK*
Gone Fishing, Assembly House, Leeds, UK*
EBC006, East Bristol Contemporary, Bristol, UK*
Flexibilism, Catalyst Arts, Belfast, NIR*
SNAKE HORSE GOAT MONKEY, Guest Projects, London, UK*
Scissors Cut Paper Wrap Stone, Centre for Contemporary Art, Derry-Londonderry, NIR*
2015
Hard Copy, home.alonE, Clermont-Ferrand, FR*
MATES RATES, The Orchard Inn, Bristol, UK*
Residencies
2028
Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder (LKV), Trondheim, NO (forthcoming)
2023-2024
FKDS 1 year studio residency, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, NO
2018
Das Weisse Haus, Vienna, AT*
2015
RUPERT Centre for Art & Education, Vilnius, LT*
home.alonE, Clermont-Ferrand, FR*
2014
Studio 2 Residency, KARST, Plymouth, UK*
2013
Nida Art Colony, Nida, LT*
The Curfew Tower, Cushendall, NIR*
Awards
2026
Prosjektstotte for kunstnere i etablering (The Arts Council Project funding for artists in the establishment phase), Kulturrådet, NO
Prosjektstotte (Project funding), Billedkunstnernes vederlagsfond (BKV), NO
1 year working grant, Billedkunstnernes vederlagsfond (BKV), NO
2025
Prosjektstotte (Project funding), Billedkunstnernes vederlagsfond (BKV), NO
Prosjektstotte (Project funding in collaboration with Anna Clawson), Billedkunstnernes vederlagsfond (BKV), NO*
1 year working grant for newly established artists, Kulturdirektoratet, NO
2024
Prosjektstotte for kunstnere i etablering (Council of Culture Project funding for artists in the establishment phase), Kulturrådet, NO
Kulturrådet Diversistipend (Council of Culture miscellaneous grant for artists), NO
2023
Fondet for kunst- og designstudenter (FKDS: The Fund for Art & Design students), Atelier Stipend for 1 year studio, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, NO
Kulturrådet Diversistipend (Council of Culture miscellaneous grant for recent graduates), NO
Erasmus+ intern traineeship award (with artist Melissa Gordon)
2022
Fondet for kunst- og designstudenter (FKDS: The Fund for Art & Design students), student artistic development grant, NO
2014
Situations travel bursary & commissioned report: Public Art (Now), Liverpool, UK*
2013
Spike Island funding award in support of solo exhibition Free Home Delivery*
Spike Island Studios funding award in support of Nida Art Colony residency*
Curatorial Projects
2025
Now that we know each other, (group exhibition) curated with Anna Clawson, Snails, Oslo*
Come on in, (group exhibition) curated with Anna Clawson, Snails, Oslo*
2024
Backyard BBQ with performances by Belladonna Paloma, Silje Iversen, & Robert Carter, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, NO*
2023-2024
KH-Kino-mix.mov, Kunstnernes Hus Kino, Oslo
2022
LIP-FLAP with Greg Pope, Laura Phillips, & Vicky Smith, Deichman Grünerløkka, Oslo, NO*
2021
An Evening in the Dark with Diego Marcon (in coversation with Mike Sperlinger), Black Box, Oslo*
Queer Film programmers for The Palace International Film Festival, Cube Microplex, Bristol, UK*
2015
Hard Copy, home.alonE, Clermont-Ferrand, FR (in collaboration with Bruno Silva & R.Domas)*
MATES RATES, The Orchard Inn, Bristol, UK*
2014-2015
STUDIO36 Tour, Tate St Ives (Cornwall), Tenderbooks (London), Royal Standard (Liverpool), UK*
2013-2015
STUDIO36 Residency Series, Spike Island, Bristol, UK*
Self-Initiated (D.I.Y) Projects
2024-ongoing
Drawing Club (with Anna Clawson & Naeun Kang), nomadically in artist studios, Oslo, NO
2024-ongoing
Board member & co-founder of SNAILS, studio collective & project space in Grønland, Oslo, NO
2023-ongoing
Co-founder of Oslo Crit Klubb, Oslo, NO
2020-2021
WB, online Covid writing club, UK*
2019
Drawing Club, STUDIO36, Bristol, UK*
KITE, Online international exchange network* (in collaboration with Bruno Silva & Romane Domas)
Selected Activities and Experience
2028
Artist Talk, Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder (LKV), Trondheim, NO (forthcoming)
2026
Deputy Chair of Snails, Snails, Oslo, NO (ongoing)
Contributor to Norsk kunstårbok (Norwegian Art Yearbook) 2025, Snails, Oslo, NO
2025-27
Deputy representative on The National Jury (Høstutstillingen), NO (ongoing)
2025
Artist-Run Initiatives & Self-Organisation, presentation to Oslo National Academy of the Arts (KHiO) BA students, Snails, Oslo, NO
2024
Kino technician, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, NO (ongoing)
Oslo Zine Fest, ROM for Kunst og Arkitektur, Oslo, NO
Dublin Art Book Fair - Fictions: The making of other worlds (curated by Adrian Duncan), Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin, IRE
Zinesen Art Book Fair (by Foot Books), Oslo, NO
Athens Art Book Fair, Stoa Tristato, Athens, GR
UPPLAGA 6 (Publication & Zine Fair), NEJD, Gothenburg, SE
B*stard Art Book Fair, Oplandia senter for samtidskunst Lillehammer, NO
Bergen Art Book Fair, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, NO
2023
UPPLAGA 5 (Publication & Zine Fair), NEJD, Gothenburg, SE
2021-22
Co-organiser of Open Forum, KHiO, Oslo, NO
2018
Strange Perfume (a queer culture book fair), Chetham’s Library, Manchester, UK*
Strange Perfume (a queer culture book fair), South London Gallery, London, UK*
2017
V!d30$, Cube Microplex Cinema, Bristol, UK*
2016-17
Guest lecturer & tutor, Arts University Bournemouth, UK*
2016
Guest lecturer & tutor, Falmouth School of Art, Cornwall, UK*
2012
STUDIO36 specially produced promo zine presented (with Spike Associates), Bookworks launch event, The Showroom, London, UK*
STUDIO36 specially produced promo zine presented, Spike Island Book & Zine Fair, Spike Island, Bristol, UK*
Not Getting On Anymore: Discussions on Collaboration, Boxcopy, Brisbane, AU*
Press
Nina Strand, Kunstavisen, Kunstnerdrevne visningssteder i Oslo, January 23, 2026
Abirami Logendran, Kunstkritikk, 12 December, December 12, 2025
Stian Gabrielsen, Kunstkritikk, Tro ikke egne øyne, May 12, 2023
Brynhild Grødeland Winther, Billedkunst, Kunsten å bli ein parentes (rundt aktivisme), p.61-63, Nr.2, 2023
Rebecca O’Dwyer, Paper Visual Art (PVA) Scissors Cut Paper Wrap Stone, Ormston House, April 26, 2017
Samuel Playford-Greenwell, Doggerland journal, Clawson & Ward, 2015
Julija Navarskaitė, Echo Gone Wrong, Artcast: Anna Clawson & Nicole Ward, July 25, 2013
Memberships
2024-ongoing
UKS (Unge Kunstneres Samfund), Oslo, NO
Norske Billedkunstnere (NBK), NO
* Projects made in collaboration with fellow artist Anna Clawson (under Clawson & Ward)
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