Nicole Awai

Nicole Awai (bɛ daa dɔɣi o la yuuni 1966) nyɛla nuchee baŋda mini shikuru baŋda ŋun be Brooklyn, New York mini Austin, Texas.

 Piligu biɛhigu 
O nyɛla bɛ ni daa dɔɣi so Port-of-Spain, Trinidad. O nyɛla Afro-Asian ancestry.

 Shikuru baŋsim 
O nyɛla ŋun daa deegi o Bachelor of Arts yuuni 1991 ka daa deegi o Master of Fine Arts in painting and printmaking yuuni 1996 ka di daa yina University of South Florida. Yuuni 1997 o nyɛla ŋun chaŋ Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture din be Maine.

Academic Positions

Bin din gbaai yuuni 2009 zaŋ hali ni yuuni  2015 o nyɛla ŋun daa gbubi "Critic" zaŋ n-ti Yale School of Art. O nyɛla ŋun wuhiri pɛntibu mini "drawing" University of Texas at Austin's Department of Art and Art History.

Artist Residences

Artists in the Market Place, Bronx Museum of the Arts, (1997-1998)
Artist-in-Residence, Art Center South Florida, Miami Beach, FL.(1998)
BRIC Media Arts Fellowship Fellowship, Brooklyn, NY (1999)
 Studio Museum in Harlem (1999-2000),
 Artist-in-Residence, Hunter College, Art Department, New York, NY. (2000)
 Triangle Arts Trust's Big River International Artists' Workshop, Caribbean Contemporary Arts Port-of-Spain, Trinidad (2001) 
 Emerge Program, Aljira, A Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ
 Art Omi International Artist's Colony, Hudson / New York, NY (2004)
 Artist-in-Residence, Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, Queens, NY. (2004)
 John Michael Kohler, Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI (2008)
Smack Mellon Studio Program, (2010)
AIR, Alice Yard, Port of Spain Trinidad, (2013)
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Process Space Residency Program, (2015)
BRIC Workspace Residency, Brooklyn, NY (2017)
 Joan Mitchell Center in April (2018)

Grants

 Payson Fellowship, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine / New York, NY (1997)
 Puffin Foundation Grant, Puffin Foundation LTD, Teaneck, NJ. (1998)
 Painters and Sculptors Grant, the Joan Mitchell Foundation (2011)
 Art Matters Grant, Art Matters Foundation (2012)
Colene Brown Art Prize (2019)

Kundivihira

External links
Official Website 

Pubu:Lahabaya zaa
Category:1966 births
Category:Living people
Category:University of South Florida alumni
Category:Trinidad and Tobago women artists
Category:Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture alumni
Category:Artists from Brooklyn
Category:University of Texas at Austin faculty
Category:American installation artists
Category:American women installation artists
Category:American women academics
Category:21st-century American women artists
Category:Trinidad and Tobago artists
Category:21st-century American women educators