Niki Lederer

Niki Lederer was born in London, Ontario and raised in Vancouver. She received her BFA from the University of Victoria and her MFA from Hunter College in New York City.

Her sculptural practice combines east and west coast sensibilities, with formal and conceptual approaches to art-making. She explores a love/hate relationship to consumer culture, most recently manifested in her found object sculptures created from repurposed consumer plastic.

Group exhibitions include The City Reliquary, Brooklyn and Gallery Aferro, Newark, NJ (2018), BRIC House, Brooklyn, 50 Years of Public Art in NYC Parks, Central Park, Creative Climate Awards, Human Impacts Institute, NYC, Ely Center for Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY, and Chashama, (2017). In 2016, group exhibitions included the Governors Island Art Fair, NY and the Outdoor Sculpture Biennial Adelphi University, Garden City, NY.

Solo exhibitions include 337 Project Space, Grand Rapids, MI, Washington Square Windows, NYU-NY and Preset Tense, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario.

Niki's work has been reviewed in The Brooklyn Rail, The Globe and Mail and The New York Times, among others. Most recently her sculpture was published in Die Verschränkung von Kunst und Nachhaltigkeit, (Wabl, Ans), as one of five featured artists exploring art and sustainability.

In the summer of 2015, Niki was awarded a merit-based scholarship at Urban Glass and was selected to participate in the Kingston Sculpture Biennial. In the summer of 2016 Niki was selected to participate in the 9th Annual Governors Island Art Fair as well as the Outdoor Sculpture Biennial at Adelphi University in Garden City, NY.

Most recently Niki has accepted an invitation to be one of Brooklyn Navy Yard’s Visiting Artists, BLDG 92, Brooklyn Navy Yard Center.

Canadian. Based in New York, USA.

Available Works

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