NICOLE CHOCHREK
BASED IN BUFFALO, NEW YORK
Nicole Chochrek utilizes visual and performative frameworks to explore contemporary issues and environmental disparities. Her work focuses on the accessibility and digestibility of information, deep listening, shared responsibilities, and the construction of new ways of being together. As an interdisciplinary artist, Nicole’s work transverses themes such as air quality, land use, waste, and the navigations of a neurodivergent mind. Her process examines our ideas of “correctness” and holds space for possibility.
BIOGRAPHY
Nicole Chochrek received a Masters of Fine Arts from the University at Buffalo in 2022. She received a bachelors in Geography and Environmental Science from the University of North Texas in 2015.
As an interdisciplinary artist, Nicole has exhibited nationally and internationally from Al Shaheed Park in Kuwait (2015), to the Center for Exploratory and Perceptual Arts in Buffalo, New York (2024). She attended Laboratory Art + Residency in Spokane, Washington, and presented her research on air quality and the impacts of fire season through the National Creative Placemaking Leadership Summit in Phoenix, Arizona (2019). She was awarded UB’s Arts Collaboratory Student Residency (2020-2021) and worked with Coalesce Center for Biological Art (2020-2022). Nicole recieved the Creatives Rebuild New York Grant in partnership with CEPA Gallery and founded, Broken Plastics, an arts and education initiative that launched microplastic recycling artbins across Erie and Niagara County, New York (2022-2024). The research collected through this project was presented through the New York State Microplastic Summit at the University at Buffalo (2024). She lives and works in Buffalo, New York.