PROFILE Career Highlights Nicola Green graduated from Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland, in 1998 with a Distinction in Master of Fine Arts (MFA) following a First Class Honours Degree in Drawing and Painting (BA), winning the Andrew Grant Bequest Scholarship in 1997 and 1998 and a Department for Education Scholarship in 1996. Nicola was taught by the Minimalist artist Alan Johnston and has been strongly influenced by the Scottish School of Northern European figurative painters that she met in Edinburgh (John Bellamy, Ken Currie etc) as well as by the conceptual works of 'Young British Artist' friends in London such as Gavin Turk. Nicola founded and directed Cockburn's Gallery in Edinburgh which concentrated on showing the work of Scottish art graduates from 1993 to 1997. Nicola is a Trustee of the charity Paintings in Hospitals and a Patron of the Prince's Drawing School Drawing Clubs and is on the board of Edinburgh College of Art's alumni council. She is based in London with a studio at Bruce Castle Museum, a residency at John Jones, and a studio in Finsbury Park.

2011	The Library of Congress and the Metropolitan Museum of Art acquire In Seven Days... Cherie Blair opens an exhibition of House Slave - Field Slave on International Anti-Slavery Day at the International Slavery Museum, Liverpool. Anti-Slavery International gifted House Slave - Field Slave to the museum.
2008 - 2010	In Seven Days..., A Portrait of a Presidential Campaign, launched at Harvard University (see News page).
2007 & 2010	House Slave - Field Slave, a collaboration with Anti-Slavery International, exhibited in 2007 at the Dulwich Picture Gallery, London and in 2010 at the Bruce Castle Museum, London. A series of educational workshops with London schools coincided with both of the exhibitions.
2006 & 2008	Nicola was a finalist in the BP Portrait Award at the National Portrait Gallery, London, which subsequently toured UK museums.
2003 - 4	Nicola's Laughing Portrait 'The Laughing Record' toured the U.K. and U.S.A. In 2005 it was the No. 1 hit in the U.K., the B-side to Peter Kay's 'On The Way to Amarillo'.

Private Collections include: Hannah Rothschild Nigella Lawson Elle Macpherson Alex & Elinor Sainsbury Richard Curtis & Emma Freud The Right Honourable Tony and Cherie Blair Nick Lloyd Webber Lord and Lady Hollick Lord and Lady Falconer Gavin Turk Isaac Julien Sir George Martin CBE Public Collections include: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City The Library of Congress, Washington D.C. The Courtauld Institute of Art, London Glenhurst Gallery of Brant, Canada Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh Sir John Soane's Museum, London Paintings in Hospitals, UK Bruce Castle Museum, UK Royal National College for the Blind, Hereford, UK Wood Green Library, London Anti-Slavery International, London Royal Brompton Hospital, London BBC Radio 4 Sound Archive, London

Solo Exhibitions include: 2010     Harvard University, Boston 2010     Bruce Castle Museum, London 2007     Dulwich Picture Gallery, London 2003     Vinyl Factory, London 2003     Royal Brompton Hospital, London 2001     56 Viceroy Road, London 1999     28 Cork Street, London 1998     Pump House Gallery, London 1996     Dunedin Gallery, Edinburgh 1994     Cockburn's Art Gallery, Edinburgh Selected Group Exhibitions include:  2011  2010 'Inspired by Soane', The Soane Museum, London 'Touching Art Touching You', Hove Museum & Art Gallery, Brighton East Wing Collection, The Courtauld Institute, London  2009 Royal College for the Blind, Permanent Collection, Hereford  2008 BlindArt, MOMA, Wales BP Portrait Award: - National Portrait Gallery, London - Wolverhampton Art Gallery - Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museum, Scotland - Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Wales 'A Sense of Space: The Blind Culture' - McIntosh Gallery - University of Western London - Ontario Glenhurst Gallery of Brant, Canada 'Touching Art Touching You', Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro 'On Time', The Courtault Institute, London  2007 Permament Collection, Ontario Glenhurst Gallery of Brant, Canada 'Boundless' Menier Chocolate Gallery & Southward Council, London  2006 BP Portrait Award:      National Portrait Gallery, London      Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museum, Scotland      Royal West of England Academy, Bristol Blind Art U.S.A.:      National Public Library for the Blind, New York      British Embassy, Washington D.C. 'Shoes - The Agony & Ecstasy':      Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead      Norwich Castle Museum, Norwich      Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, Bradford      Tully House Museum, Carlisle  2005 Portraits 2005, Arndean Gallery, London Blind Art, Royal College of Arts, London  2004 'New Sound New York', The Kitchen, New York Winchester Festival of Art & the Mind, Winchester 'Retrospective' 291 Gallery, London  2003 'A Laughing Portrait':      Cork Arts Festival, Ireland      Port Eliot Lit Fest, Cornwall      Royal Brompton Hospital, London      Your Shout Awards, Winchester  2001 Group Show, 'B Contemporary', London  1999 Art '99 London, Davies and Tooth Gallery The Hunting Art Prizes, Royal College, London and Bath  1998 City Art Fair, London, Davies and Tooth Gallery  1997 'Up', curated by Mel Gooding, The Collective Gallery, Edinburgh The New Generation, Compass Gallery, Glasgow