EDUCATION
2004 B.A. Visual & Critical Studies, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Chicago, Illinois
2009 M.A. Art History (Paleolithic Studies), l’Université Lumière Lyon; Lyon, France
SOLO & TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2024 Solo Show – The Commonwealth Club; San Francisco
2020 Into the Interval: Nikki Vismara & Kym Des Los Reyes – Barba Contemporary Art; Palm Springs
2018 Nikki Vismara – Gallery 1317; San Francisco
2018 Kat Greene & Nikki Vismara – Barba Contemporary Art; Palm Springs
2017 Nikki Vismara & Gerald Arrington – Slate Art Consulting at Oakland City Center; Oakland
2017 Nikki Vismara – The San Francisco Zen Center; San Francisco
2015 Nikki Vismara & Ellen Markoff – One Sansome; San Francisco
2014 Nikki Vismara – L Street Lofts Pop Up; Sacramento
2012 Nikki Vismara: Narratives – Gallery 14; Sacramento
2012 Nikki Vismara – The Pick Me Up; Lyon, France
2011 Nikki Vismara – Wilfrid Karloff; Lyon, France
2011 Nikki Vismara – Appartement 16; Lyon, France
2010 Nikki Vismara – HAYS; Lyon, France
2007 Nikki Vismara & Stefan Burnett – Sacramento News & Review; Sacramento
2001 Nikki Vismara – Britt Steele; Sacramento
JURIED EXHIBITIONS
2023 The de Young Open – The de Young Museum; San Francisco
2023 Inaugural Exhibition: 12x12” Invitational – 2121 ArtSpace; San Francisco
2022 Textures, Shapes, Patterns or Forms – Las Lagunas Gallery; Los Angeles
2022 Women Rising – The Drawing Room; San Francisco
2021 Cube Art Fair: NFT Edition Miami – Art Basel Miami Beach Art Week; Miami
2021 MidSummer Exhibition – Live Worms Gallery; San Francisco
2021 Cube Art Fair NYC: World’s Largest Public Art Fair – Cube Art Fair; New York City
2021 Painting Through The Pandemic – The Rhode Island Watercolor Society; Pawtucket, Rhode Island
2020 The de Young Open – The de Young Museum; San Francisco
2020 Celebration of Art – Marin Society of Artists; San Rafael
2020 word – ShockBoxx Gallery; Los Angeles
2020 Small Works – Las Lagunas Gallery; Los Angeles
2020 Reflections – Arc Studios & Gallery; San Francisco
2019 Visualizing The Word – Cade Center for Fine Arts; Arnold, Maryland
2019 Everyday Objects – Studio Montclair; Montclair, New Jersey
2019 Small and Smaller – Site: Brooklyn Gallery; Brooklyn, New York
2019 Beyond The Selfie – The Art Center Highland Park; Chicago
2019 Small Works Exhibit – Lemonade Stand Gallery; Key West
2019 Divergent Evolution – Studio Montclair; Montclair, New Jersey
2019 Craft Revolution – Orange County Center for Contemporary Art; Los Angeles
2019 Snap! – Arc Gallery; San Francisco
2018 Black and White – Core New Art Space; Denver
2018 stARTup Art Fair Los Angeles – The Venice Kinney; Los Angeles
2018 Purely Abstract – Healdsburg Center for the Arts; Healdsburg
2018 ArtSpan Benefit Art Auction – SOMArts; San Francisco
2018 stARTup Art Fair San Francisco: ArtSpan Juried Room – Hotel del Sol; San Francisco
2016 100 Years, 100 Artists – The Kondos Gallery at Sacramento City College; Sacramento
2016 ArtSpan: Art-In-Neighborhoods – Paintings exhibited at Piano Fight; Mosser Hotel; & Hotel Adagio; San Francisco
2013 Feast For The Eyes – Blue Line Art Gallery; Roseville
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 16th Anniversary SF Art Pop-Up – Secession Art & Design; San Francisco
2023 SF Spring Art Pop-Up – Secession Art & Design; San Francisco
2022 The Bow and The Brush: Dan Flanagan Violin – New York City, San Francisco, & Paris
2021 The Color of Summer – Barba Contemporary Art; Palm Springs
2021 Quarter Past Moonrise – Barba Contemporary Art; Palm Springs
2020 First Light – Barba Contemporary Art; Palm Springs
2020 Women Rising – The Drawing Room Annex; San Francisco
2020 Art Palm Springs – Palm Springs Convention Center; Palm Springs
2019 Bone Black – DZINE Gallery; San Francisco
2019 Ghetto Tech – Good Mother Gallery; Oakland
2019 Group Exhibition – Kevin Barry Fine Art; San Francisco & Santa Monica
2019 Water Music – DZINE Gallery; San Francisco
2019 Movers and Shakers – The Drawing Room; San Francisco
2019 Art Palm Springs – Palm Springs Convention Center; Palm Springs
2018 X Materia – DZINE Gallery; San Francisco
2018 Group Exhibition – Kevin Barry Fine Art; San Francisco & Santa Monica
2018 Mailing Home – The Tides Thoreau Center at The Presidio; San Francisco
2018 Cracking Nutshells – DZINE Gallery; San Francisco
2018 Gallery 925 at Palm Springs Modernism Week – Palm Springs Convention Center; Palm Springs
2017 Burning Bright – DZINE Gallery; San Francisco
2017 The Depth of Perception – Barba Contemporary Art; Palm Springs
2017 Slate Art Consulting at Khrome Studios – The San Francisco Design Center; San Francisco
2017 Marching Home – The Tides Thoreau Center at The Presidio; San Francisco
2016 Tracks and Echoes – DZINE Gallery; San Francisco
2016 SF Scenes – Gallery 1317; San Francisco
2016 Group Exhibition – Simone Beckett Gallery; Los Gatos
2016 Art for Asylum – Like Minded Gallery; San Francisco
2006 5th Annual Short Film Festival of Caen (5e festival du marathon film court); Caen, France
2001 Frank Zamora: Mentor & Mentees – 20th Street Art Gallery; Sacramento
ACTIVITIES AND HONORS
Community Steering Committee Member for Bayview-Hunters Point/Southeast San Francisco – Bay Area Air Quality Management District (2023-present)
Board of Directors – Shipyard Trust for The Arts for Hunters Point Shipyard Artists; San Francisco (2020-present)
Advisory Board Member – The Asylum Project; San Francisco (2019-2022)
San Francisco Open Studios Committee – ArtSpan (2017-2020)
Artist & Volunteer – Girls On The Run (Chicago); Kindred Spirits Care Farm School (Los Angeles); ArtSpan (2016-2019)
Volunteer Art Teacher – ArtSeed’s Summer Intensive Art Workshop (2016-2019)
Live Painting – Molton Brown at Neiman Marcus & Saks Fifth Avenue; ArtSpan at Sunday Streets (2016-2018)
Juror – Nancy Pelosi’s Congressional High School Art Competition at The Asian Art Museum; Art in the Redwoods Art Exhibition; California State Parks Foundation’s Youth Art Contest (2016-2019)
Visual Merchandising Freelance Associate – Saks Fifth Avenue (2015-2017)
Volunteer Mural Artist – The Journal Building; San Francisco (2015)
Live Painting & Purse Monogramming – Beauty Week at Saks' Fifth Avenue (2015)
Humanitarian work: French/English Translator for Grain de Sable (NGO helping children access education & clean water) & Co-founder of partner project Biket Initiative; France & Mali (2011-2014)
Adjunct Faculty: Art History & English – The National Institute of Applied Sciences (INSA); Lyon, France (2008-2013)
Guest Lecturer: Social Entrepreneurship – Grenoble Business School of Management; Grenoble, France (2011)
Guest Lecturer: Beginning Drawing with Frank Zamora – Sacramento City College (2006)
· 7x7: “For Hunters Point painter Nikki Vismara, it's all gold sneakers & larger-than-life abstracts” by Shoshi Parks – October 2022
· Culture Shifters - Photography by Brian Moore – April 2022
· San Francisco Examiner: “This weekend: Open Studios at Hunters Point Shipyard” by Max Blue – October 2022
· Oh Hell No! And Other Ways to Set Some Damn Boundaries - by Sara Ahmed & Dani Katz; Chronicle Books – August 2021
· Le Mag Francophone: "Portraits" by Annie Joly (Interview in French) – September 2020
· Luxe Magazine: “Artfully Inclined” by Kimberly Olson – September 2019
· Le Mag Francophone: "Nikki Vismara" (Interview in French) by Annie Joly – November 2018
· Art and Cake LA: “stARTup Art Fair 2018” by Genie Davis – February 2018
· Palm Springs Art Patron: "Dark Matter" by Christine Dodd – January 2018
· Vie Magazine: "Dirtbag City: Art & Artists of San Francisco" – July 2017
· WhereTraveler Magazine: "San Francisco Art Scene: 11 Things to Watch" by Brittney Shoot – October 2016
∙ One Hundred Years, One Hundred Artists: An Exhibition Featuring Seven Decades of Sacramento City College Art; Sacramento City Art Department Centennial Exhibition Catalogue – 2016