Simon Nicholas
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Simon NicholasGallery Figures IV, 2024Oil on linen7 x 9.5 inches -
Simon NicholasMonochrome 2, 2024Oil on linen7 x 9.5 inches
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Simon NicholasStudy for Hals, 2024Oil on linen10 x 12 inches
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Simon NicholasAtrium VAcrylic on linen61 x 65 inches
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Simon NicholasGallery Figures IAcrylic on linen10.6 x 14.2 inches
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Simon NicholasGallery Figures IIAcrylic on linen10.6 x 14.2 inches
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Simon NicholasGallery Figures IIIAcrylic on linen10.6 x 14.2 inches
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Simon NicholasGallery Group 2Acrylic on Linen24 x 32 inches
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Simon NicholasGallery IIIAcrylic on linen73 x 77 inches
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Simon NicholasPromenade XOil on linen47 x 77 inches
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Simon NicholasPromenade VIIIAcrylic on linen43.5 x 78 inches
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Simon NicholasBjørvika VIIIAcrylic on linen41 x 38 inches
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Simon NicholasPromenadeAcrylic on Linen37.5 x 59 inches
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Simon NicholasAtrium VIOil on Linen57 x 63 inches
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Simon NicholasAtrium Figures 1Oil on linen27.5 x 31 inches
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Simon NicholasAtrium Figures 2Acrylic on linen27.5 x 31.5 inches
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Simon NicholasPark IOil on linen79 x 95 inches
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Simon NicholasPark IIAcrylic on Linen37.5 x 61 inches
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Simon NicholasPark VIIAcrylic on linen51 x 61 inches
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Simon NicholasPromenade IVOil on Linen57 x 65 inches
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Simon NicholasPromenade VIIOil on linen77 x 79 inches
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Simon NicholasAtriumOil on linen63 x 67 inches
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Simon NicholasGallery VIAcrylic on linen51 x 61 inches
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Simon NicholasBjørvika XIIOil on linen75 x 79 inches
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Simon NicholasCrosswalk II47.5 x 78.75 inchesOil on Linen
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Simon NicholasZenith IVOil on Linen61 x 65 inches
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Simon NicholasCrosswalk StudyOil on linen13 x 12 inches
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Simon NicholasCrosswalk VIIIAcrylic on linen23.5 x 29.5 inches
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Simon NicholasGallery Group 2Oil on linen10.5 x 13 inches
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Simon NicholasGallery StudyOil on linen13 x 12 inches
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Simon NicholasSmall CrosswalkOil on linen20 x 18 inches
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Simon NicholasStudy for GalleryAcrylic on linen10.5 x 13 inches
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Simon NicholasStudy for Gallery 5Acrylic on linen10.5 x 14 inches
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Simon NicholasTwo FiguresAcrylic on linen10 x 8 inches
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Simon NicholasConcourseAcrylic on linen37.5 x 41.5 inches
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Simon NicholasStudy for Park VAcrylic on Linen11.75 x 10 inches
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Simon NicholasStudy for Park VIAcrylic on Linen10 x 11.75 inches
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Simon NicholasStudy for Park VIIAcrylic on Linen10 x 11.75 inches
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Simon NicholasStudy for Park IIAcrylic on Linen10 x 11.75 inches
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Simon NicholasStudy For StubbsOil on Canvas12.5 x 10 inches
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Simon NicholasStudy for Museum AtriumOil on Linen13.8 x 13.8
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Union Square Satellite Gallery | Iconic Former Barneys Building
1 Oct 2025 - 14 Jul 2026 150 Post StreetRead more -
Summer Selection
16 Jul - 27 Aug 2025Maybaum Gallery is pleased to present our Summer Selection , featuring handwoven textiles, chiseled marble sculpture, and luscious impasto paintings from both gallery-rostered and guest artists. Celebrating an internationally-curated experience...Read more -
Simon Nicholas | Gatherings
1 Apr - 5 May 2021Maybaum Gallery presents a solo exhibition of recent paintings by Norway-based artist Simon Nicholas. In this series of paintings, Nicholas explores people in relationship to their surroundings, engaged in everyday life. This is his second solo show at Maybaum Gallery.Read more
A group, a crowd, a mob, a pack, a throng, a party. Before 2020 these words represented the most commonplace scenes of daily life--people, together. Simon Nicholas (b. 1954) has been working on his depictions of gatherings for half a decade, but thanks to the social isolation of the 2020 pandemic, new implications in his work begin to emerge.
Nicholas is adept at composing his crowds in such a way that we understand he’s collapsing the boundaries of traditional subject/object roles of picture making and picture consumption. In Gallery VI (below) a group of art viewers is depicted head-on--they stare directly at us but they aren’t challenging our gaze, they are simply looking at a painting. In the exterior scene in Park VII (above), the artist’s figures fill an expansive park field looking in the same direction. The subject of their attention is offstage or obscured in the darkening colors and melting gesture of the aerial perspective.
A global longing and a collective desire to simply be together has emerged in almost every conversation we now have. As the pandemic starts to recede and we allow ourselves to get excited at the thought of having a drink at a bar, seeing live music or walking through a museum with a close friend, we start to see the beauty and the meaning in simple, blissful proximity to one another. Everyday togetherness has been Simon Nicholas’s subject matter for years. In 2021 these works become flares of hope, a visual taste of what’s to come, and a reminder that life is made in the seemingly inconsequential moments of our togetherness. -
Simon Nicholas | Urban Landscapes
23 Oct - 30 Nov 2019Enjoy speaking to the artist in person about his elusive process of painting: 'attempting to work in the gap between observation, intuition/memory, and photographic references.' “My recent work has been...Read more
Education
1987 State Academy of Fine Art, Oslo, Norway
1979 Academy of Fine Art, Istanbul, Turkey
1977 Camberwell School of Art, London
1974 Bath Academy of Art
Teaching
1996 - PRESENT Granum Kunstfagskole, Oslo
2001 University of Northumbria, Newcastle, England, UK
2000 Oxford School of Art, England, UK
Collections
DnB Bank, Bjørvika, Oslo • Oslo S Utvikling (OSU), Oslo • AT&T, USA • Statoil, Norway • Statoil
• Dagens Naeringsliv, Oslo • TV 2, Oslo • Northumbria University’s Permanent Collection, Newcastle, UK • Parabola Estates, Central Square, Newcastle • Old Mutual Art Collection, London • Skien Billed- galleri, Norway • Eiendomsspar AS, Oslo • Cleveland Art Gallery, UK
• Göteborg Konstnämd, Sweden • Bohusläntinget, Sweden • Scandia Göteborg • Bergens Grieghallen, Norway • Unilever Plc, London
Awards
2015-2021 Grant from the Arts Council of Norway
2024 Grant from BKH (Bildende Kunstneres Hjelpefond) Norway
2015-21 Working grant from the Arts Council of Norway
2014 BKV Stipend ( grant from the Norwegian Artists Union)
2011 Norwegian Artists Union
2007 Vederlagfondetsstipend (Norwegian Artists Union)
2006 Vederlagfondetsstipend
2005 Vederlagfondetsstipend
2004 Vederlagfondetsstipend
2003 Vederlagfondetsstipend
2002 Vederlagfondetsstipend
2001 Vederlagfondetsstipend
2000 Norwegian Cultural Council Award
1999 Pollock- Krasner Award, New York
1998 Ingrid Lindbäck Langaard Foundation, Oslo, Norway
1998 Vederlagfondetsstipend
1997 NBK ( Norwegian Artists Union) Travel grant
1996 Ingrid Lindbäck Langaard
1995 Ingrid Lindbäck Langaard Travel Grant (Residency at Skandinavisk Kunstnerkollegium i Roma)
1994 Norwegian State Travel grant
1993 British Council Award
1986 Grant from the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
1977 Turkish Government Scholarship
1999 Pollock- Krasner Award, New York
Solo Exhibitions
2021 'Gatherings' , Maybaum Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2019 Urban Landscapes, Maybaum Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2018 Tegnerforbundet, Oslo, Norway, “Mapping the Studio”
2017 Haugesund Kunstforening, Norway, “ Gallery”
2016 Galerie Clairefontaine, Luxembourg, “ New Work”
2015 Aalesunds Kunstforening, Norway
2014 Galerie Clairefontaine, Luxembourg, “Paintings”
2013 Trafo Kunsthall, Norway “Bjørvika Paintings“
2012 University Gallery Newcastle, UK
2011 Kings Place Gallery, London, UK
2011 Galerie Clairefontaine, “Paintings“
2010 Bærum Kunstforening, From the birch series 1989- 1995, Norway
2009 Galerie Clairefontaine, “ Kirchberg Paintings”, Luxembourg
2008 Gallery Henoch, New York “ Composed Cities”
2007 Clairefontaine “ Atrium”
2006 Gallery Aasen, Ålesund, Norway
2005 Galleri Brandstrup, “Tiers”, Oslo, Norway
2004 Galleri Brandstrup “Concourse”
2003 Gallmeri Aasen, Ålesund
2002 University Gallery, Newcastle, England
2001 University Gallery, Newcastle
2001 Tegneforbundet, “City Interiors”, Oslo, Norway
2000 England & co, London, UK
2000 Galleri 9, Kristiansand, Norway
2000 Skien Kunstforening, Norway
1999 Galleri F 15, Norway
1999 Oslo Kunstforening
1999 Buskerud Kunstnersenter
1993 Philip Graham Gallery, London, UK
1990 Galleri Aktuell Kunst, Oslo, Norway
1989 Galleri Garmer, Göteborg, Sweden
1989 Drammen Kunstforening, Norway
1987 Bergen Kunstforening
1986 Richard Pomeroy, London, UK
Group Exhibitions
2025 Maybaum Gallery, "Summer Selection," San Francisco, CA
2021 Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize, London, UK
2017 Radley Drawing Centre, England, “Sketch” Østlandsutstillingen, Norway
2015 The London Group Open, London, UK
2013 The Mall Galleries, London "The ING Discerning Eye", London, UK
2013 Kings Place Gallery, "Ruth Borchard self portrait exhibition", London, UK
2013 Galerie Clairefontaine, Luxembourg, LU
2011 Kings Place Gallery, "Ruth Borchard self portrait exhibition", London
2010 Galleri LNM, "Colors", Oslo, Norway
2008 Galerie Clairefontaine, Luxembourg “portraits > < selfportraits"
2007 Norske Bilder, Oslo, Norway
2006 Rosenberg + Kaufman Fine Art, New York, NY
2006"Dealer's Choice" Gallery Henoch, New York, NY
2005 Flowers Central, London, UK
2005"Small Work 23" Norske Bilder, Oslo
2004 Drammens Kunstmuseum “ Visning”
2004 Flowers Central "Small Work 22", Jill George Gallery, London, UK
2003 San Francisco Art Fair, San Francisco, CA, USA
2003 Chicago Art Fair, Chicago, USA
2003 Belloc Lowndes Fine Art, Chicago, IL, USA
2003 Norske Bilder, Østlandsutstillingen, Oslo, Norway
2002 Norske Bilder. Oslo, Norway
2001 England & co, London, UK
2000 Hunting Art Prizes, RCA, London, UK
1999 The Mall Galleries, London "The Discerning Eye” London, UK
1996 Høstutstillingen
1994 UKS Vårutstilling
1993 Gruzelier Modern and Fine Art, London, UK
1992 UKS Vårutstilling
1991 Cleveland International Drawing Biennale, England ( Prisvinner)
1991 Whitechapel Art Gallery, "Whitechapel Open” London, UK
1988 Brighton Polytechnic Gallery, Brighton, UK
1986 Whitechapel Gallery, Whitechapel Open", London, UK
1985 Galleri Kampen, Oslo, NO
1984 Angela Flowers Gallery, London, UK
1984 Curwen Gallery, London, UK
1983 Anne Berthoud Gallery, London, UK
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Seattle Art Fair 2022
21 - 24 Jul 2022Select VIP Preview Thursday, July 21, 2022 — 5:00pm to 6:00pm Opening Evening Thursday, July 21, 2022 — 6:00pm to 9:00pm Public Hours Friday, July...Read more -
ART MIAMI 2019 | BOOTH AM230
3 - 8 Dec 2019Platinum VIP Preview: Tuesday, December 3, 2019 | 4:30PM - 6:00PM VIP Preview: Tuesday, December 3, 2019 | 6:00PM - 10:00PM General Admission: Wednesday, December...Read more -
Art Market San Francisco 2019 | Booth 114
25 - 28 Apr 2019VIP & Press Preview Thursday, April 25, 2019 | 6:00 - 10:00PM General Admission: Friday, April 26, 2019 | 11:00 - 7:00 PM Saturday, April...Read more
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Nob Hill Gazette | Satellite Space in Barneys
January 28, 2026'Rejoice! The iconic 1909 building that used to house Barney’s in downtown San Francisco is no longer empty — thanks to Christina Maybaum . “People...Read more -
Roth Fine Art Appraisals | Dealer Spotlight: Maybaum Gallery
June 23, 2020Full article available here: https://myemail.constantcontact.com/Dealer-Spotlight---Maybaum-Gallery--June-23--2020.html?soid=1134175470269&aid=F7L_w0GiWncRead more
