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Nicola Tyson

Nicola Tyson

1960
WA-00003426
PaintingFiguration
Representation
None documented
0
Institutional Exhibitions
3
Works in Collection
39
Assets Indexed
13
Authority-backed Facts
0
Publications Referenced
80%
Profile Completeness

Cultural Positioning

Influence Graph
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Authority Records (2)

Field Verification (6 fields)

3 cross-verified · 3 single-source
  • Primary mediumWikidata + Unknown· 92%✓
  • Birth yearWikidata + Unknown· 92%✓
  • BiographyWikipedia + Unknown· 88%✓
  • NationalityWikidata + Artsy+1· 92%
  • LocationArtsy + Wikidata+1· 85%
  • DeceasedUnknown· 20%

Source Registry (3)

About

Why this artist matters now

Nicola Tyson paints figurative works she terms psycho-figuration, using distorted human forms to interrogate identity, gender, and sexuality. Her paintings employ gestural abstraction and exaggerated bodily distortion to expose the psychological and social pressures embedded in representation itself. Based in New York, Tyson's practice resists stable figuration, instead treating the body as a site of formal instability and conceptual ambiguity.

Source: Petzel · Trust score: 100% · Updated 2mo ago

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Taste overlap and adjacency

Movement
Figuration
Medium
Painting
Related Artists
12 in graph
Institutional

Museum Collections

Canonical record

Artworks (3)

Artwork sources (3)

3 published of 11 catalogued · 10 with image
  • Tate
    2 published2 img
  • The Met
    1 published
  • + 1 more source · 8 catalogued, not yet published

Per-Artwork Provenance Chains (top 2)

2 entries · 1 sources
  • Swimmer
    1995 · Tate · 1 prov
    Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
  • Curtain Figure
    1999 · Tate · 1 prov
    Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Record

Images

27 assets
Artsy artwork: Untitled (2018)
Artsy
Artsy artwork: Overhead (2023)
Artsy
Artsy artwork: untitled (1989)
Artsy
Artsy artwork: Untitled (1998)
Artsy
Artsy artwork: Gossip (2006)
Artsy
Artsy artist portrait
Artsy
Landscape with Saint John on Patmos (Art Institute of Chicago)
Art Institute of Chicago
Landscape with Saint John on Patmos (Art Institute of Chicago)
Art Institute of Chicago
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Relationships

3
Movements1
Figuration
Collections2
The Metropolitan Museum of ArtTate
Institutional

Representation & Collections

In collection
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
In collection
Tate
Background

Education

Chelsea College of Art and Design
Visual Arts
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