Studio Portrait by Pedro Wazan
Nicole Combeau is a Colombian-American artist and educator based in Miami whose lens-based practice explores migration, diasporic belonging, ritual, and intergenerational memory.
Drawing from personal and collective histories, she works across photography, archival materials, textiles, and artist books to consider how the past is inherited, transformed, and reimagined. Her work approaches photography as a subjective medium, interested in the spaces where lived experience, imagination, and the subconscious converge.
Combeau received her BFA in Photography and Video from the School of Visual Arts in New York. Her work has been exhibited nationally at institutions and cultural spaces including the Orlando Museum of Art, Miami International Airport, and the Whitney Center for the Arts.
She is a two-time recipient of The Ellies Creator Award and a recipient of the WaveMaker Grant from Locust Projects. She is currently an Artist-in-Residence at Bakehouse Art Complex in Miami.