Nicola Dill

California artist Nicola Dill lives and works in the Los Angeles area. She received her B.F.A. with Honors from ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena. For many years, her primary focus was portraiture for editorial clients, record companies, and advertising. Her commercial clients include Adidas, BMG Music, Evian, Geffen Records, Microsoft, Sony Music, Virgin Records, and Warner Music Group. Today her practice centers on independent projects. Earlier work focuses on nature, engaging with the elements such as water, earth, and wind, moving toward near abstraction. Her current work draws on questions of perception, light, and space, extending these concerns into a complex urban and ecological context. Dill’s photographs have been exhibited at institutions such as the Hammer Museum, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, and the Southeast Museum of Photography in Florida. Her work is included in the collections of the George Eastman Museum, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, the Southeast Museum of Photography, the Special Collections of Stanford University and UCLA, the University Medical Center Hamburg, and the Beinecke Rare Book Library at Yale University. Her photographs have been the subject of a monograph and special edition, Sea Etchings (Nazraeli Press, 2011 and 2012). She was nominated for the Prix Pictet (Fire) in 2021.