Nick McPhail (b. 1982) Laingsburg, Michigan
Lives and Works in Los Angeles, CA

Nick McPhail is a Los Angeles-based painter and sculptor using renaissance techniques to consider the peripheral mundanity of urban life. Born and raised in Laingsburg, Michigan, Nick attended Michigan State University where he studied painting and ceramics, graduating with a BFA in 2006. Since then, he has maintained a consistent practice that has evolved to rely on personal observation and photography as the basis for his intuitive compositions.

He has completed residencies at Amélie Maison d’Art in France (2022), Untitled_1983 in Geneva (2019); Ochi Gallery in Ketchum, Idaho (2019); and 100 West Corsicana in Corsicana, Texas (2018). He was a 2023 Hopper Prize Finalist, and in 2017 he was awarded a grant to attend a residency at the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, Vermont.

McPhail’s artwork has been exhibited and is held in private collections throughout the United States, Europe, and beyond. His work has been written about in Wrap Magazine, Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles, BOOOOOOOM, and It’s Nice That.