Nicolas Party (b.1980, Lausanne), is a figurative painter who achieved critical admiration for his familiar yet unsettling landscapes, portraits, and still lifes that simultaneously celebrate and challenge conventions of representational painting.

The artist’s childhood in Switzerland imprinted upon him an early fascination with landscape and the natural world, and the influence of his native country places Party firmly within the trajectory of central European landscape painting. Points of reference in his work include celebrated 19th-century Swiss artists Félix Vallotton, Ferdinand Hodler, and to Hans Emmenegger. One can also find within his works a 21st-century synthesis of the sorts of impulses and ideas that fuelled the Renaissance and late 19th-century, early 20th-century figurative painting, the compositional strategies of Rosalba Carriera and Rachel Ruysch, and the visions of such self-taught artists as Louis Eilshemius and Milton Avery.

Based in New York, Party studied at the Lausanne School of Art in Switzerland before receiving his MFA from Glasgow School of Art in Scotland.

Recent institutional exhibitions include; Holburne Museum, Bath, England (2025); Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH (2025); Hoam Museum of Art, Yongin, South Korea (2024); The Frick Collection, New York, NY (2023); Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden, Germany (2023); Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan (2022); Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (2022); Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC (2021–22); Le Consortium, Dijon, France (2021); Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp, Cully, Switzerland (2021); MASI Lugano, Switzerland (2021); M Woods Museum, Beijing (2018); Magritte Museum, Brussels (2018); Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2016); and Dallas Museum of Art (2016). Party’s work is represented in the collections of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris; M+ Museum, Hong Kong; Menil Collection, Houston; Morgan Library & Museum, New York; and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, among other institutions.