born Belfast 1972
Selected Exhibitions
| 2022 | ‘Beyond Edges’ 3 person exhibition with Sharon Adams and Andrea Spencer – The Georgian Gallery Ards Arts Centre |
| 2021 | ‘Beyond Edges’ – Roe Valley Arts Centre, Limavady |
| ‘Nine Walls’ Group Exhibition – The Hyde Bridge Gallery Sligo | |
| 2020 | 140th RUA Annual Exhibition (Paul Henry Landscape Prize Winner) |
| 2019 | 138th RUA Annual Exhibition – Ulster Museum Belfast |
| ‘Field’ Five selected Artists – The Byre – Frocess Yard Ballymena | |
| 189th RHA Annual Exhibition Dublin | |
| Group Exhibition – Battletown Gallery, Co Down | |
| Gallery 1608, Bushmills | |
| 2018 | Solo Exhibition at Flowerfield Arts Centre, Portstewart, Co Antrim |
| 2017 | ‘Five Artists Show in a Byre’ – Frocess Yard Ballymena |
| Gallery 1608 Bushmills | |
| Black Canvas Gallery Holywood | |
| ‘Nicola Nemec and Lesley Hiller’ – Triodos Bank Gallery Bristol | |
| 2016 | Solo Exhibition – Gallery 1608, Bushmills, Co Antrim |
| Mixed Exhibition – Black Canvas Gallery, Holywood | |
| 2015 | ‘Human Nature’ – Centrespace Gallery, Bristol |
| ‘Human Nature’ – Munro Gallery, Leeds | |
| Spring Exhibition – Gormley’s Gallery, Dublin | |
| Christmas Exhibition, – Gormley’s Gallery, Dublin | |
| 2014 | Christmas Exhibition – Eleven Fine Art, London |
| ‘Human Nature’- Hoxton Arches Gallery, London | |
| Summer Exhibition – Mullan Gallery, Belfast | |
| All Ireland Show – Gordon Gallery, Derry | |
| Irish Art in Cambridge – Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge | |
| 2013 | Summer Exhibition – Mullan Gallery, Belfast |
| Summer exhibition – McKenna Gallery, Omagh | |
| Mixed Exhibition – Mullan Gallery, Belfast | |
| All Ireland Show – Gordon Gallery, Derry | |
| 2012 | ‘Monuments’- Solo Exhibition Hart Gallery, London |
| Summer Exhibition – Mullan Gallery, Belfast | |
| Summer Exhibition – Hart Gallery, London | |
| 2011 | Summer Exhibition – Hart Gallery, London |
| 2010 | Royal Ulster Academy Exhibition – Ulster Museum, Belfast |
| Summer Exhibition – Gordon Gallery, Derry | |
| ‘Irish Art’ Summer Exhibition – The Wilde Gallery Limepark, Armoy | |
| Christmas Exhibition – Cavehill Gallery, Belfast | |
| Christmas Exhibition – Hart Gallery, London | |
| Christmas Exhibition – Hart Gallery, Nottingham | |
| 2009 | ‘Land Lies in Water’ solo exhibition – Hart Gallery, London |
| Summer Exhibition – Hart Gallery, London | |
| The Christmas Exhibition – Cavehill Gallery, Belfast | |
| 2008 | Royal Ulster Academy Exhibition – Titanic Drawing Rooms, Belfast |
| The Christmas Exhibition – Cavehill Gallery, Belfast | |
| Mixed Exhibition – Hart Gallery, London | |
| 2007 | RUA Exhibition – Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast |
| Christmas Exhibition – Cavehill Gallery, Belfast | |
| Christmas Exhibition – Hart Gallery, London | |
| 2006 | ‘Harbour Series’ Solo exhibition – Wilde Gallery, Limepark Armoy |
| Christmas Exhibition – Cavehill Gallery, Belfast | |
| Christmas Exhibition – Hart Gallery, London | |
| 2005 | Group Show – Hart Gallery, London |
| Christmas Exhibition – Hart Gallery, London | |
| 2004 | Group Show – The Townhouse Gallery, Belfast |
| 2003 | ‘Harbour Series’ solo exhibition – Hart Gallery, London |
| 2002 | Twentieth Century British Art Fair – Royal College of Art, London |
| Christmas Exhibition – Hart Gallery, London | |
| Christmas Exhibition – Hart Gallery, Nottingham | |
| Mixed Exhibition – Hart Gallery, Cornwall | |
| 2001 | Mixed Exhibition – Hart Gallery, London |
| Hart Gallery Artists at Phillips – Leeds | |
| Twentieth Century British Art Fair – Royal College of Art, London | |
| 2000 | Solo Exhibition – Hart Gallery, London |
| ‘Art 2000’ – Business Design Centre, London | |
| 1999 | ‘Three Young Painters’ – Hart Gallery, London |
| Twentieth Century British Art Fair – London | |
| 1998 | Christmas Exhibition – Hart Gallery, London |
| Prizewinners’ Exhibition in association with the Edna Lumb Trust, Dean Clough Galleries, Halifax | |
| Whitechapel Open Studios – London | |
| 1997 | ‘Nicola Nemec and Julia Davenne’ – The Tricycle Gallery, London |
| 1996 | ‘Talents’- Studio Three Gallery, London |
| ‘Stratocuising’- Raw Gallery, London | |
| Whitechapel Open Studios, London | |
| 1995 | ‘SPACE Award Exhibition’- Raw Gallery, London |
| ‘Art International’- Studio Three Gallery, London | |
| 1994 | ‘Fresh Art ’94’- Business Design Centre, London |
Awards
| 2023 | Invited artist ‘Sea Change’ project- Artlink Ireland in association with Arts Council Ireland and Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council |
| 2021 | Arts Council of Northern Ireland Individuals Recovery Programme Grant |
| Paul Henry Landscape Prize- Royal Ulster Academy 140th Annual Exhibition Ulster Museum Belfast | |
| 2020 | Tyrone Guthrie Residency Annaghmakerrig |
| Freelands Trust Award | |
| 2018 | Causeway Coast and Glens Individual Artist Bursary |
| 2017 | Heinrich Boll Achill Island Residency – September 2017 |
| 2009 | Arts Council of Northern Ireland Award |
| 1994 | Edna Lumb Trust Travel Prize: Funding for four weeks travel and study to the south of France and Paris |
| SPACE studio award London: One year’s tenure of a SPACE studio in Hackney London |
Selected Bibliography
| 2021 | ‘Beyond Edges’ accompanying exhibition text- Amanda Croft |
| 2018 | ‘Quiet Places’ exhibition catalogue Flowerfield Arts Centre |
| 2015 | ‘Human Nature’ catalogue, Hoxton Gallery, London |
| 2014 | Irish Art in Cambridge – catalogue, Gordon Gallery, Derry |
| 2013 | All Ireland Show – catalogue, Gordon Gallery Derry |
| 2009 | Professor Michael Parker, ‘Liminal Visions: The Art of Nicola Nemec’ |
| 2008 | Dr Susan Liggett, ‘Psychological Resonance and its Relationship to Site in the work of five Contemporary Painters’ |
| 2007 | Professor Michael Parker, ‘Northern Irish Literature 1956-2006: The Imprint of History’ Introduction, Palgrave Macmillan |
| 1995 | Hayden Reynolds, Art Review, July |
| 1994 | Tara Mills, Irish News 29.8.94 |
| Tara Mills, Irish News 23.4.94 | |
| Yorkshire Evening Post 23.4.94 |
Other
Aquisition by the Northern Ireland Civil Service Collection, 2021
Founding member of the ‘Human Nature’ Arts Group
Ambassador for the International ‘It’s Our World’ Art Project
Three large paintings recently purchased for the collection of Ecotricity
Included in the Office of Public Works Collection, Ireland
‘Artist of the Month’ feature in association with the Arts Council of Northern Ireland
BBC Newsline feature, Rosie Billingham, October 2000
BBC Radio Ulster, Arts Extra, October 2000