Studio Portrait by Pedro Wazan
Nicole Combeau is a Colombian-American visual artist, educator, and museum administrator based in Miami. Working primarily with photography and book arts, her practice centers on slow looking, intergenerational relationships, and the rituals people use to create a sense of home.
Her work often begins with time spent with her maternal grandmother and expands outward into collaborations with elders, families, and communities across Miami. Using techniques such as double exposure, image layering, and photographic sequencing, she creates images that explore how memory moves between people, places, and everyday gestures.
For the past eight years, Combeau has also worked as an arts educator and museum administrator. This ongoing engagement with pedagogy deeply informs her practice. Book arts have become an important part of her teaching, offering participants a way to gather images, stories, and personal histories into tactile forms. Her work reflects a broader commitment to collective learning and anti-ageist cultural work, informed by the thinking of bell hooks, LaToya Ruby Frazier, and Thích Nhất Hạnh.
She is currently an Artist-in-Residence at the Bakehouse Art Complex in Miami.