Nicole Shek is an Oakland-based multidisciplinary artist working across painting, photography, live painting, and immersive installations. Drawing from a nomadic lifestyle, multicultural perspective, and years spent creating within festival communities, her practice explores the relationship between place, memory, and collective energy.

Rooted in abstract expressionism within a world envisioned through a surrealist and visionary lens, her paintings merge expressive mark-making with psychedelic color, organic forms, and dreamlike imagery that blur the boundaries between the inner and outer landscapes. Live painting lies at the heart of her practice, translating sound, movement, and atmosphere into intuitive, layered compositions that evolve alongside the people and environments surrounding them.

Photography serves as both a documentary practice and an archive of light, texture, and fleeting moments that continually inform her paintings. Whether on canvas, behind the camera, or creating immersive environments, Nicole’s work invites viewers to slow down, embrace curiosity, and reconnect with a sense of wonder.