Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY
EDUCATION
2017 MFA Brooklyn College, CUNY, Brooklyn, NY
2005 BA Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA
EXHIBITIONS
Solo Exhibitions
2023 À mon seul désir, Pangée, Montréal, QC
2022 NADA Miami, Solo presentation with Mrs., Miami, FL
2022 too bad for heaven, too good for hell, Mrs., Maspeth, NY
2021 Flex Point, Public, London, UK
2021 Allegory for the Muse, NADA House with Pangée, New York, NY
2018 Gymnasia, BRIC Project Room, Brooklyn, NY
2018 Strange Business, Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn, NY
Two Person Exhibitions
2025 Esther II Art Fair, presentation with Mrs.
2024 Exoskeleton, Public, London, UK
2022 Slippery Yoke, Carvalho, Brooklyn, NY
2019 Power Walking, Public, London, UK
2019 Grey Matter, Spring/Break Art Show, New York, NY
2012 Lithic Habitats, Cuchifritos Gallery and Project Space, New York, NY
Selected Group Exhibitions
2026 The Fold, Public, London, UK
2025 Extended Blooming, Room 57 Gallery, New York, NY
2025 Body’s First Architecture, Ely Center for Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT
2025 Erotic City, Eric Firestone, New York, NY
2025 Banshees, Asya Geisberg, New York, NY
2025 01:00:00, Public, London, UK
2024 Disguise, Mischief, and Freedom, Kentucky College of Art and Design, KY
2024 Apple of Discord, Louise Alexander Gallery, Sardinia, Italy
2024 FULL DISCLOSURE, Plains Art Museum, Fargo ND
2024 Bella Figura, Carole Lambert Presente, Paris, France
2024 Vanitas, CHART, New York, NY
2024 Felix Art Fair, Mrs., Los Angeles, CA
2024 Fever Dream, Swivel, Brooklyn, NY
2023 Contested Bodies, University of Leeds, Leeds UK
2023 Elsewheres, UTA Artist Space, Los Angeles, CA
2023 Kiaf Seoul (3 person presentation) with Pangée, Seoul, Korea
2023 Fantasticals, Dimin, New York, NY
2023 Snakes in the Grass, Newchild, Antwerp, Belgium
2023 Stuffed, Boston University Museum Gallery, Boston, MA
2023 Heaven Knows, Flower Grows, Galerie Bomma, Paris, France
2023 Milk Tongue, SUNY Oneonta Museum Gallery, Oneonta, NY
2022 Symbiosis, Berkshire Botanical Garden, Stockbridge, MA
2022 The Shape of Things, Swivel, Saugerties, NY
2022 10, Lighthouse Works, Fishers Island, NY
2022 Felix Art Fair, Mrs., Los Angeles, CA
2022 A Few Small Nips, Mrs., Maspeth, NY
2022 Late Night Enterprise, Galerie Perrotin, New York, NY
2022 3 Going Through 9 to Get to 27, Galveston Artist Residency, Galveston, TX
2021 Recent Acquisitions in Contemporary Art, Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA
2021 I am Not a Cartoon, Stoveworks, Chattanooga, TN
2021 Anniversary, Mrs., Maspeth, NY
2021 Boy Box, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY
2021 Glyphadelphia, Hesse Flatow, New York, NY
2021 The Artist is Online, König Galerie, Berlin, DEU
2020 Fantasy Body, Pangée, Montréal, QC
2020 All Out/All In, Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY
2020 Reality Flex, Paradice Palase, Brooklyn, NY
2020 Domestic Brutes, Pelham Art Center, Pelham, NY
2020 The Essential Goods Show, Fisher Parrish, Brooklyn, NY
2020 No Time Like the Present, Public, London, UK
2020 Applied Forces, Arlington Art Center, Arlington, VA
2019 King Dogs Never Grow Old, Diane Rosenstein Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2019 Put on Your Face and Hand Me Down, Greenwich Arts Council, Greenwich, CT
2019 Buddy System II, Deanna Evans Projects, New York, NY
2019 Arena, SPACE, Portland, ME
2019 Ceremonial Exhibition, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
2019 Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts, American Academy of Arts and Letters
2018 Another History, Thierry Goldberg Gallery, New York, NY
2018 Going Beyond, Kunstraum, Brooklyn, NY
2018 Hand in Glove, Public Address, Brooklyn, NY
2018 Art in Odd Places: BODY, Westbeth Gallery and 14th Street, New York, NY
2018 Let the Fancy, University of Illinois Art Gallery, Springfield, IL
2018 Wendy Let Me In, Beverly's, New York, NY
2017 The Giving Body, Underdonk, Brooklyn, NY
2017 Salt Lick, L.O.G. (Low Occupancy Gallery), Chapel Hill, NC
2017 Commencement, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY
2017 Fantastic Plastic, CRUSH Curatorial, New York, NY
2017 Dead Horse Bay: The Glass Graveyard of Brooklyn, Urban Glass, Brooklyn, NY
AWARDS
2019 Purchase Prize, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
2016 Graduate Teaching Fellow, Brooklyn College
2016 Ravenal Travel Grant, Brooklyn College
2007 1905 Memorial Alumnae Fellowship for Visual Arts, Mount Holyoke College
RESIDENCIES
2022 Joan Mitchell Center, New Orleans, LA
2021 Fores Project, London, UK
2019 Edward Albee Foundation, Montauk, NY
2019 Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY
2018 Lighthouse Works Fellowship, Session 31, Fishers Island, NY
2014 Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Nebraska City, NE
2009 Supporting Women Artists (SWAP) Studio Residency, Brooklyn, NY
2009 Harold Arts Residency, Chesterhill, OH
2009 Artist Grant Recipient at Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
2008 ARTCamp Studio Residency, NY Studio Gallery, New York, NY
2007 Artist in Residence at Byrdcliffe Artists Colony, Woodstock, NY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Publications
2023 Boobs in the Arts: Fe:male Bodies in Pictorial History, eds. Natanja von Stosch and Juliet Kothe, Distanz Publishing.
2020 “Sewing Sculptor,” L’Officiel Lithuania, interview with Julija Kalvelyte, January
2020 Spotlight Artist, Maake Magazine, Emily Burns, Issue 10
2018 Featured Artist, HISS Magazine, Issue 2
Online Publications
2026 Inside ‘Gossip’, New York’s Under-the-Radar Crit Group, Artnet, Annikka Olsen
2025 Gloves in Art: A Muse at Arms Length, Opaloma, Odessa Paloma Parker
2025 Martha Edelheit on Her Erotic Exhibition, The Guardian, Veronica Esposito
2025 Erotic Art Through the Eyes of a 93 Year Old, Vogue, Lisa Wong Mabasco
2025 Erotic City in ‘What to See in NYC Galleries’, New York Times, Jillian
Steinhauer
2022 Wall-to-Wall Carpeting’s Very Good Year, Curbed, Diana Budds
2022 Staying Off the Glitzy Path at Miami Art Week, Hyperallergic, Valentina Di Liscia
2022 10 Standout Emerging Artists Discovered at NADA and Untitled in Miami,
Galerie Magazine, Paul Laster
2022 “The Big Question: How do Bodies, Commodities and the Digital Intersect?”,
READ, interviewed by David Eardley, Art21
2022 Rose Nestler: too bad for heaven, too good for hell, Brooklyn Rail, Elizabeth
Buhe
2022 “Modes of Making: Rose Nestler Interviewed by Sheryl Oppenheim”, BOMB
Magazine
2022 The Approval Matrix, New York Magazine
2022 Your Concise New York Art Guide for April 2022, Hyperallergic, Cassie Packard
2022 Editors' Picks, Artnet, Neha Jambhekar
2021 “Super! Interview with Rose Nestler”, Oliva Toups and Jack Coleman
2021 Surrealism Reloaded: Attention Moving Body Parts, SCHIRN MAG for SCHIRN
Museum, Natalie Wichmann
2021 “The Language of Fashion in Fine Art Form: A Conversation With Rose Nestler”,
Juxtapoz Magazine Online, Jessica Ross
2021 Diane Rosenstein, King Dogs Never Grow Old, Artillery Magazine, Avery
Wheless
2021 King Dogs Never Grow Old, KCRW Arts & Culture
2019 “Rose Nestler Sculpting the Second Skin”, Metal Magazine,
Interview with Julija Kalvelyte
2019 Artist Feature, Protest Issue, Thalia Magazine
2019 9 Exceptional Artworks from Spring/Break Art Show 2019 That Aren't Penile, by
Loney Abrams
2019 “Rose Nestler Explores the Societal Constructs of Clothing”, Art of Choice,
interview with Maria Vogel
2019 The New Surrealism: Contemporary Women Artists Against Alternative Facts,
Art Space Magazine
2019 Rose Nestler: Gymnasia, reviewed by Katie Hector, Maake Magazine, January
2018 Jock Talk: Sculptor Rose Nestler’s Gymnasia Fantasia, Vulture, by Jordan Larson
Publications as Author
2024 “Interview: Alison Kudlow by Rose Nestler,” BOMB Magazine, April
Podcasts
2025 Sound & Vision, Episode 463
2019 Amy Beecher Show, Episode 28
MUSEUM COLLECTIONS
2019 Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA
EXHIBITIONS CURATED
2022 Now I am a Lake, Public, London, UK
INVITED ARTIST TALKS
2025 BFA Critic, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
2025 School of Visual Arts Summer Program, New York, NY
2023 MFA Program, Brooklyn College
2022 BFA Soft Sculpture Course, Cornell University
2021 Sculpture Department, Vassar College
2021 MFA Sculpture Department, SUNY Albany
2021 Philadelphia Academy of Fine Art
2020 MFA program, SUNY Purchase
2020 MFA Program, New England College
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
The New School (2019 - present)
College of Staten Island, CUNY (2018 - present)
Montclair State University (2021 - 2022)
Brooklyn College, CUNY, MFA Teaching Fellow (2017)
OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2022–Present Faculty Mentor, Canopy Program, NYC Crit Club, New York, NY
2013–2018 Teaching Artist, Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
2008–2016 Teaching Artist, Joan Mitchell Center, New York, NY