About

Nicole Shannon is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice examines how perception, belief, and meaning shape human experience. Working across painting and sculpture, she creates metaphor-driven bodies of work that explore transformation, embodiment, and the ways individuals construct value, identity, and possibility through lived experience.

Her work includes The Worlds We Create, a series investigating how internal belief systems shape perception and lived experience; Rare Roses, paintings based on genetically abnormal roses that reconsider ideas of difference and human worth; and sculptural investigations of post-traumatic growth that examine rupture, adaptation, and resilience as states of transformation.

Nicole began her career as a goldsmith and bench jeweler, developing a sensitivity to symbolism, material transformation, and the psychological resonance of objects—an approach that continues to inform her interdisciplinary practice. Situated at the intersection of art and philosophy, her work approaches meaning as something actively formed, emphasizing interpretation as an open and participatory process.

An internationally exhibited and award-winning artist, Shannon’s work has been featured in publications including Create! Magazine, Vogue Gioiello, and American Artist Magazine, and is held in collections at medical, academic, and genetic research centers including Boston Children’s Hospital, Clemson University Center for Human Genetics, and Greenwood Genetic Center. She studied art at the State University of New York at New Paltz and the Savannah College of Art and Design.