Nicole Mouriño
Nicole Mouriño is a Cuban-American artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Her large-scale paintings – initiated in charcoal, sealed in polymers, and finished in oil or cement – depict merging understandings of beauty, desire, and identity. Their autobiographical compositions stem from Mouriño’s photos of storefront windows of bodegas, botanicas, peluquerias, and others street-level spaces throughout New York City. Nicole received an MFA in Social Practice from Queens College (’16) a BFA in Painting from Pratt Institute (’11) and has exhibited at Untitled Miami, Pulse Miami, BRIC, the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, Peep Projects, and Beverly’s NYC.
Artworks
Project rendering for Massage Core, 2026
Massage Core is a communal sculpture designed for anxiety reduction, massage, pain management, and physical therapy. Composed of ceramic tiles, its textured surface draws a parallel to the bumpy pillars of MTA platforms and their use by the artist as a personal massage tool. Intended to be touched, leaned, and sat upon, Massage Core pays homage to the once-popular parkour, and it’s training method colloquially called “park-core,” through the sculpture’s efficient use of urban space and as an architecture for physical engagement.