NICK FARHI

Nick Farhi is a New York-based visual artist whose practice encompasses painting, sculpture, installation, and performance. He holds an MFA in Painting from Columbia University (2023), where he was recognized with the Columbia University Visual Arts Scholarship and the Quinta Carolina Fellowship, and also served as an Interdisciplinary Arts Council Fellow. His earlier education includes studies in Painting and Art History at SUNY Empire State College (2011-2014) and continuing education at Cooper Union. Farhi also contributes academically, having taught at the Columbia University School of the Arts.

Farhi has established a robust international exhibition profile. His solo exhibitions have been hosted by prominent galleries such as Tang Contemporary (Hong Kong), Stems Gallery (Paris), Will Shott (New York), Golsa (Oslo), Bill Brady Gallery (Miami), and Neochrome Gallery (Turin), among others. His work was recently featured in solo presentations including "Autumn Leaves" in Hong Kong (late 2024) and "Reverie" in Paris (Spring/Summer 2024).

He has also participated extensively in group and duet/trio shows globally. Recent group exhibitions concluded in March 2025 at Galerie Rolando Anselmi in Rome and Ethan Cohen Gallery in New York. Other notable group participations include shows at Marlborough Gallery (London), Nino Mier Gallery (New York), M+B Los Angeles, Galleri Golsa (Oslo), The Jewish Museum (New York, performance), South Hampton Arts Center, Half Gallery (New York), and Leila Heller Gallery (New York).

Beyond his studio practice, Farhi engages with critical discourse through published writing in outlets like Yale School of Architecture's Paprika! Magazine and Columbia University's MODA Critical Review. He has also delivered lectures, such as "Mining for Emotions: Social Equity as Public Art" at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.

His career has been supported by prestigious residencies, including Palazzo Monti in Brescia, Italy (2020) and a visiting research fellowship with the Center for Arts, Design, and Social Research in Spoleto, Italy (2022). He has an upcoming artist residency with The Grosso Collection in Venice scheduled for Fall 2025. Farhi has also contributed work to numerous philanthropic exhibitions and benefits.

Published Writing

Yale School of Architecture Paprika!Magazine, Issue 3 Volume 6, ¨The Underground¨, October 2020

Columbia University MODA Critical Review, Volume 4, “The Draft”, May 2023

Lectures

Harvard Graduate School of Design, title: “Mining for Emotions: Social Equity as Public Art” as part of the winter term course, “Exhibiting for Social Change”taught by Eva Lavranou MDes ‘22, January 6th, 2022

Education

Columbia University MFA Painting 2023

SUNY Empire State College, Painting and Art History 2011-2014

Cooper Union Continuing Education, Painting

Teaching

Columbia University School of the Arts

Group Exhibitions

Galerie Rolando Anselmi
“Personal Showcase III”
Rome, Italy
February 9th - March 28th 2025

Ethan Cohen Gallery
“Goodbye Horses”
New York, NY
February 17th - Maarch 22nd 2025

Sculptures In Reverie,
Curated by Jess Hodin & Gaia Jacquet Matisse
South Hampton Arts Center
August 2023

Villa Lina, East 6th Street
“Eroica Variations” curated by Nemo Librizzi, New York, NY July-August, 2023

Nino Mier Gallery
“Beach” curated by Danny Moynihan, New York, NY, Late June, July - August, 2023

The Jewish Museum
“In Response: The Sassoons”, curated by Chris Gartel, Shelly Silver, and Jenna Weiss, Annual Spring Performance Art Program, April, 2023

M+B Los Angeles
MZ.25 curated by Monsieur Zohore, January 21 - February 18th, 2023

Galleri Golsa
Group Exhibition curated by Victoria Horrocks, Oslo, Norway, February 2nd - March 4th, 2023

Marlboroguh Gallery London
Shelf Life, curated by Jessica Draper, Frieze Week London, October 11th - 29th, 2022

Half Gallery New York
Otherwise, curated by Carlota Ortiz Monasterio, Ho Won Kim, Victoria Horrocks, July 26th - August 20th, 2022

Zaz Art Foundation of Times Square (with support from Champs Sports)
Time, 12 Videos, Jumbotron Screen, Corner of 40th Street and Broadway, New York, February 3rd - 2022

Sade Gallery
Fun Gal, Los Angeles, CA January 14th - February 16th 2022

Anonymous Gallery New York
100 Sculptures, New York, NY, June 29th-August 1st, 2021

Daily Trumpets curated by Jonathan Horowitz
Online, March 2021

Thierry Goldberg Gallery
White Lillies, New York, NY, December 15, 2020 - January 17, 2021

G.L.I.T.S., Come As You Are curated by Daniel Oglander, New York, NY, November 2020

Mana Museum of Contemporary Art
Trans Atlantico curated by Edoardo Monti, New Jersey City, NJ, October 2020 - April 2021

Kirkland Gallery, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Pandemic, Cambridge, MA, April-May 2020

Karma International, Fun Hang curated by Julia Braiman Rothblatt, Los Angeles, CA, July 2019 - August 2019

Steve Turner Gallery, Forces of Nature, Los Angeles, CA, March 2018

Nick Farhi Studio, Shoulder, Los Angeles, CA, February 2018

Sade Gallery, Folklore curated by Honor Titus, Los Angeles, CA, November 2017

Leila Heller Gallery, Grisaile, New York, NY, June 2017

Mom’s Favorite, Winter In America curated by Chase Hall, Los Angeles, CA, February 2017

Hilde Gallery, Edge of Doom, Los Angeles, CA, January 2016

Proto Gallery, New Barracuda, NJ, 2016

Coburn Projects, Summer Show of New York Artists, London 2016

Leila Heller Gallery, Shrines To Speed, New York, NY, 2016

Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, First We Take New York, NY, 2016

Jonathan Viner Gallery, Summer Objects Show, London, 2016

Brand New Gallery, Imagine, Milan, 2016

Caroline Hoffman Projects, Lemonade Stand, New York, NY, 2015

Robert Blumanthal Gallery, Nick Farhi, Sam McKinniss, Cassie Raihl, East Hampton, NY 2014

A Gathering of The Tribes LES Bear Necessities, curated by Ana Bezanilla & Deondre Davis, April 2012

Duet & Trio Exhibitions

Annarumma Gallery (Forthcoming Duet) “Oposto: Four Paintings on New York”
Naples, Italy, May 2024

The Trops Fort Greene Brooklyn
Monomania, Brooklyn, NY with Grear Patterson curated by Nemo Librizzi, June 1st - July 19th, 2022

Iron Velvet
Destinations/Departures: Nick Farhi, Sophie Kovel, and Hyoju Cheon, New York, NY April 23rd - June 12th, 2022

Rod Bianco Gallery
Across One Hundred and Tenth Street, Oslo, Norway with Grear Patterson, April 5th - March 11th, 2016

Zach Bruder, Nick Farhi, Ted Gahl, Drift, curated by Olivia Smith, Brooklyn, NY, February 3rd - March 5th, 2015

Louis B. James Gallery
Irreverent Decadence, curated by RJ Supa, New York, NY, February 1st - March 7th, 2014

Solo Exhibitions

Tang Contemporary “Autumn Leaves”
Hong Kong
November 27th 2024 - January 4th 2025

Stems Gallery “Reverie”
Paris, France.
April 4th - June 1st 2024

Will Shott “Sills”
New York, NY
September 6th - October 22nd, 2023

Freedom Gallery “Babushka”
curated by K.O. Nnamdie
New York, NY
June 16th - August 4th, 2021

Palazzo Monti
Solo project, Gelato Days,
Brescia, Italy
January 2020

Tillou Fine Art “Clay Orchestra”
curated by Michelle Tillou
Brooklyn, NY
October 19, 2019 - December 2019

Golsa “Dessert Bloomers”
Oslo, Norway, May 2018

Serving The People Gallery “Rodeo Christmas”
Los Angeles, CA, December 2018

United Artists Ltd., “Belafonte”
Marfa, Texas
February 2015 - March 2015

Bill Brady Gallery “Don’t Need Roads”
Miami, FL,
January 2015-February 2015

Neochrome Gallery “F.I.L.A.:Falling in Love Again”
Turin, Italy
January 2015-February 2015

Residencies, grants, awards

2024 The Grosso Collection Artist Residency (forthcoming)
Venice, Italy
September - October

2023 The Jewish Museum
Selected Performance & Installation duet with Steven Stallings for “In-Response: The Sassons” New York, NY, February - April, 2023

2022 Center for Arts, Design, and Social Research (CADSR)
visiting research fellow, Spoleto, Italy, June 2022

2020 Palazzo Monti Residency, Brescia, Italy, January 2020

2021-2023 Columbia University Visual Arts Scholarship

2021-2023 Quinta Carolina Fellowship, Columbia University School of the Arts

2022-2023 Interdiscplinary Arts Council Fellow & Interim Treasurer, Columbia University School of the Arts

Philanthropic Exhibitions

2025 The Grosso Collection Artist Residency (forthcoming)
Venice, Italy

2019 Brooklyn Academy of Music
Benefit Gala, Downtown Brooklyn, NY

2017 Salon 94 Freeman’s
No More Deaths Exhibition, New York, NY
curated by David Fierman

2017 Watermill Benefit Gala
In Tribute to Lou Reed, East Hampton, New York 2016

2016 MOCA Detroit Benefit Gala
Annual Benefit Gala, Detroit,MI

2016 Sothebys and New York Academy of Art
Take Home A Nude, New York, NY