Rose Nestler

Brooklyn, New York

Artworks shown are selected from works submitted by the artist in their grant or residency application. All works are copyright of the artist or artist’s estate.

About Rose Nestler

Rose Nestler (b. 1983 in Spokane, WA) lives and works in Brooklyn. She holds an MFA from Brooklyn College. Nestler has exhibited in the United States and abroad, including Perrotin, König Galerie, Projet Pangeé, Public Gallery, Fisher Parrish, Hesse Flatow, Thierry Goldberg and BRIC. Her work was curated in a two-person exhibition at Spring/Break in 2019 and she was a Lighthouse Works Fellow in 2018. She will be artist-in-residence at the Joan Mitchell Center in Neuva Orleans in 2022. Recent exhibitions include solo exhibitions at Public Gallery (London, UK) in 2021 and Mrs. Gallery (New York, USA) in 2022. Her work has appeared and been reviewed in The Art Newspaper, New York Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail and BOMB Magazine.

Program Participation

Joan Mitchell Center Residency, 2022

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I use the language of soft sculpture to evoke very real power structures and, at the same time, subvert them, highlighting an absurdity, impotence or fundamental flaw inherent in those structures. I explore social expectations and relationships to familiar objects, and twist them in the process.”