Studio Portrait by Pedro Wazan
Nicole Combeau is a Colombian-American visual artist and educator based in Miami. Rooted in photography, her work explores the ways memory, imagination, and lived experience shape how we see ourselves, each other, and the places we inhabit.
Drawing from personal and collective histories, Combeau works across photography, archival materials, textiles, and artist books. She is especially interested in photography as a subjective medium—one that can hold memory, feeling, and imagination alongside what is seen.
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.
Combeau’s recent honors include two Ellies Creator Awards from Oolite Arts, a 2026 WaveMaker Grant from Locust Projects, supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and a 2026 Jay I. Kislak Fellowship at the University of Miami.
She is currently an Artist-in-Residence at Bakehouse Art Complex.