FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 2025

Christina Nicola Announces Professional Name Change to NICOLA

A New Name Marks a Decade of Practice and the Emergence of Afroromanticism

New York, NY — Multidisciplinary artist Christina Nicola, whose work has explored the intersections of memory, figuration, and surreal time for over a decade, is stepping into a new era. Beginning this spring, she will create and exhibit professionally under the name NICOLA.

This name change is both personal and conceptual—a marker of transformation in her artistic vision and a signal of what’s to come. Known for her immersive paintings, sculptural installations, and suspended cutout figures, NICOLA’s practice has long challenged the limitations of genre, gender, and narrative structure.

“Choosing NICOLA is about alignment,” the artist shares. “It’s not about leaving anything behind, but allowing myself to move forward with clarity—boundless, nonlinear, and in tune with the direction my work is taking.”

The transition also reflects a desire to separate her personal and professional identities with care.

“Friends and family are welcome to keep calling me Christina,” she adds. “NICOLA is for the public-facing, ever-evolving body of work. My given name stays close to home.”

NICOLA’s name change coincides with the quiet rollout of Afroromanticism, her curatorial and conceptual framework for radical poetics, feminine futurism, and emotional surrealism. This will culminate in the official launch event, An Afroromantic Primer, at Judson Memorial Church in New York City this October.

With this shift, NICOLA invites collectors, curators, and collaborators to meet her where she is now—at the beginning of something luminous, uncontained, and deeply her own.

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