Nicole Martinelli is an internationally acclaimed, award-winning artist and photographer, and the pioneer of an entirely new art form: the hand-painted E-Painting. Represented by Toolip Art Gallery in Vienna, Austria, she has exhibited in 45 prominent galleries and museums through curated national and international exhibitions across the United States and Europe, with further inclusions confirmed for October–November 2026.
Her work has been exhibited alongside some of the most celebrated names in art, including Yoko Ono, Louise Bourgeois, Yayoi Kusama, Shepard Fairey, and Gabo. It has been selected by distinguished jurors including Sandy Gellis, Crista Dix (Griffin Museum of Photography), Nancy Lim (SFMOMA), Armando Garcia, and legendary musician Billy Corgan, and is held in private collections worldwide.
Career highlights include a five-month juried exhibition in Gstaad, Switzerland (2024); Weaving Dreams, Living Time (Lecce, 2025); Barcelona Contemporary (2025); Firenze Contemporary 2026; Le Temple des Rêves (Lecce); Women's Generation 2026 (Lecce); the Lecce Arredo Fair (2025, 2026); Bloom, Texture, and Abstrakta (2026); Natural Flow, 2nd Edition (Lecce, 2026); and her solo exhibition at Artifact Gallery, Manhattan (2026).
Martinelli was named one of MSN's Top 10 Trailblazing Women of 2026 and one of the Top 20 Most Inspirational Women of 2026 by NYC Journal, Disruptors Magazine, and Women's Herald.
Drawing on her roots as an oil painter, Martinelli creates every E-Painting entirely by hand, stroke by stroke, using a stylus as her brush and a touchscreen as her canvas. Each layer of color, texture, and form is placed by her own hand with the same intuitive gestures as traditional painting, resulting in works that are unmistakably painterly and entirely of their time.
Across both photography and E-Painting, her work reflects the beauty of renewal and the balance between fragility and strength, memory and rebirth. Through recurring floral and natural motifs, she explores transformation and healing, revealing the quiet resilience that connects nature and the human spirit. Each piece invites the viewer to pause, reflect, and find gratitude, a reminder that even in darkness, beauty endures.
We all hold the pen and the brush, and the power to bloom to our full potential. You are limitless." — Nicole Martinelli
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Website: https://www.nicolesgallery.art website: https://www.nicole-martinelli.com Gallery Exhibtion, and Press information: https://www.nicolesgallery.art/nicole-martinelli-press-exhibitions Exhibtion history: https://www.nicolesgallery.art/exhibitions