Nicole Salimbene (b. Trinidad, CO) is a Washington, D.C. based interdisciplinary artist, working at the intersection of poetics, psychology, and spiritual ecology. She holds a BA in English from the University of Northern Colorado and has worked as a mental health and domestic violence counselor, as well as an arts administrator for the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange and the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. Raised in Niagara Falls, NY during the Love Canal crisis (resulting in the first US EPA Superfund), environmental and spiritual themes circulate in the conceptual and material choices within her work.
Her art has exhibited nationally and internationally in venues such as Montataire, France, New Orleans Photo Alliance (LA), Museum of Contemporary Art (VA), Dairy Arts Center (CO), (e) merge Art Fair (D.C.), Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition (NY), James Madison University (VA), George Mason University (VA), Catholic University (DC) and Studio Channel Gallery (CA). She has received recognition from The Art Newspaper (London), Washington Post, Al Tashkeel (Dubai), The Smithsonian Art Museum Blog: Eye Level, and Sculpture Magazine.
Additionally, her work has been reproduced for publications and purchased for private and public collections, with works held in the DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities Art Bank Program, GLB Collection and the Isla Center for the Arts, University of Guam. She received Second Place for the 2018 Trawick Prize. She has twice been a recipient of the Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award. In 2012, the Washington Sculptors Group awarded her the Tom Rooney Prize.
Along with a studio practice, she has led Opening to Your Creativity: Art as A Contemplative Practice workshops in affiliation with American University, Clark University, George Mason University, Tephra ICA, Lama Foundation, The Center for Contemplative Mind in Society, Wesley Theological Seminary, Ghost Ranch and World Wildlife Fund.
Her art has exhibited nationally and internationally in venues such as Montataire, France, New Orleans Photo Alliance (LA), Museum of Contemporary Art (VA), Dairy Arts Center (CO), (e) merge Art Fair (D.C.), Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition (NY), James Madison University (VA), George Mason University (VA), Catholic University (DC) and Studio Channel Gallery (CA). She has received recognition from The Art Newspaper (London), Washington Post, Al Tashkeel (Dubai), The Smithsonian Art Museum Blog: Eye Level, and Sculpture Magazine.
Additionally, her work has been reproduced for publications and purchased for private and public collections, with works held in the DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities Art Bank Program, GLB Collection and the Isla Center for the Arts, University of Guam. She received Second Place for the 2018 Trawick Prize. She has twice been a recipient of the Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award. In 2012, the Washington Sculptors Group awarded her the Tom Rooney Prize.
Along with a studio practice, she has led Opening to Your Creativity: Art as A Contemplative Practice workshops in affiliation with American University, Clark University, George Mason University, Tephra ICA, Lama Foundation, The Center for Contemplative Mind in Society, Wesley Theological Seminary, Ghost Ranch and World Wildlife Fund.