Christina Nicodema’s paintings are provocative, both visually and conceptually. Aesthetically, she creates dreamscapes, exaggerating color and number, often portraying subject matter en masse. Conceptually, she challenges the viewer by making apparent reality’s paradoxical essence, using a variety of subjects. With scenes set in nature, she juxtaposes raw animal violence and familial nurturing. In other work, she uses the subject of food to contrast its supposed products—joy and security—and its actual outputs—gluttony and paranoia. Throughout her work, a central motif appears: humanity’s visceral desires to consume and dominate, resulting in natural habitats’ and animals’ destruction, and humanity becoming detached from its own identity.

Christina Nicodema resides and works in Long Island City, NY. She received her B.F.A. from Parsons School of Design (NY, NY). Notable exhibitions include Nancy Littlejohn Fine Art, Houston, TX; Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts, Birmingham, AL; Postmasters Gallery, Rome, Italy; Anna Zorina Gallery, New York, NY; Josée Bienvenu Gallery, New York, NY; In 2021, she received the Peter S. Reed Foundation Grant for painting.