Bio
Nicki is an Asian Pacific Islander American artist and educational practitioner. She was born and raised in the Richmond District of San Francisco. She received her BA from Pitzer College (Education and Community Engagement) in 2021. Her work documents her continuous exploration of ascribed/prescribed identity, (re)appropriation, perception, and belonging through various artistic mediums— such as relief printmaking, painting, and sculpture.
Aquino's work documents her continuous exploration of ascribed/prescribed identity, (re)appropriation, perception, and belonging through a variety of artistic mediums— specifically, installation, relief printmaking, painting, and sculpture. Art making is one of the tools that she use to make sense of the world and better understand the complex relationships between history, power, and personal/shared identity. She often incorporate so-called “traditional” Chinese, Filipino, and Native Hawaiian motifs and techniques, as well as popular Asian American iconography in her pieces as a way to reaffirm, honor, and put into question the experiences of Asian American, Oceanic and “third culture” individuals in diaspora.
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