About
Nicholas Rispoli is a mixed-media artist and one-time novelist who holds an MFA in figurative sculpture. He wrote his first book, A Lantern in the Shade, in just a few short weeks while living in the SWANA region – but the story languished in his head for umpteen years before. He published it from his childhood bedroom in July 2020. He has since moved out of his childhood bedroom.
Nicholas has collaborated internationally as an artist-in-residence with HANGAR Center of Artistic Research in Lisbon, Portugal, and La Escuela de Diseño de Altos de Chavón in the Dominican Republic. His projects have earned Brooklyn Arts Council grants, and he has taught art at various institutions, including Pace University, the Bedford Hills College Program – Marymount Manhattan College, The New York Academy of Art, and the New York State Summer School of the Arts, where he was also the Assistant Artistic Director from 2015 to 2021.
His drawings have often been described as "idiosyncratic," and he still can’t decide if that’s a compliment or a total dis. He continues to make them anyhow.