Nicola Tyson

Nicola Tyson
Born	1960 (age 56–57) London, Great Britain
Nationality	British
Known for	Visual art, painting

Nicola Tyson is a British painter who lives in New York. Her work consists of what she describes as "psycho-figuration", and is primarily concerned with issues of identity, gender and sexuality.

Tyson was born in London in 1960. She attended Chelsea School of Art, London (1979–80) and Central St. Martins, London (1980-81 & 1986-89).

Although Tyson works in many media including sculpture, she is best known as a figurative painter. Tyson's figures tend to be misshapen and presented with unexpected proportions. Her work has been connected stylistically to postwar British Expressionism, specifically artists such Francis Bacon and Hans Bellmer

In 2013, Tyson published Dead Letter Men, a collection of letters written by her to dead male artists including Francis Bacon, Édouard Manet, and Pablo Picasso. For Tyson, these satirical letters bring together "autobiographical anecdotes, sexual politics and art history to create a kind soup out of which it becomes clear [her] work has evolved".

In 1993, Tyson had her first solo exhibition at Trial Balloon, a space that she established to exclusively show female artists in New York. In 1995, she had her first solo exhibition in London at Anthony d'Offay Gallery, which was followed by a show of her drawings at Entwistle Gallery.

She has exhibited as part of numerous group exhibitions including The Whitechapel Open at Whitechapel Gallery, London (1989), and New Work: Painting Today Recent Acquisitions at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (1999).

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