Nora Wiley-Schwartz

Nora Wiley-Schwartz is a Brooklyn-born artist and recent graduate from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has participated in group shows in Chicago and New York City. She works with themes of nostalgia, growth, human presence, and girlhood. She is currently a teaching artist in New York and runs a portrait commissions business.


Artist Statement

My practice is based in painting and drawing, working with themes of nostalgia and domesticity in day-to-day life. I am consistently exploring the everyday environment around me and appreciating the mundane in my paintings. I got started by taking local classes as a tween and worked my way up to art college through the NYC public art school system.

In Chicago and now, I was always painting Brooklyn architecture and landscapes. I have also begun focusing on landscapes from other parts of my childhood and adult life at camps and residencies that take place in the woods. Tying into my own nostalgia, I was able to reminisce on my childhood in Brooklyn and the quiet scenes of the artistic spaces we retreat to outside of the city.


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