Nancy Hoffman Gallery is pleased to announce the exhibition of recent work by Nicolas Africano. This will be Africano’s first solo gallery exhibition in New York in more than 20 years.

Africano gained prominence in the 1970s with his association to the transitional genre featured in the Whitney Museum Exhibition “New Image Painting.” His signature large monochrome canvases presented small figures in relief, accompanied by text, creating a theatrical and stylized narration in an enigmatic atmosphere of spare simplicity.

Africano’s work evolved into figurative sculpture, which was imbued with personal emotionally suggestive content, and influenced by literature, poetry, theatre, music and art. His figures, crafted from marble, bronze, and cast glass express an unapologetic charm and a resolute dissonance.

Nicolas Africano's art is included in the permanent collections of many prestigious institutions, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, and the de Young Museum, among others.

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