Nina Molloy

Nina Molloy

(b. 1999, Bangkok, Thailand)

Nina Molloy lives and works in New York. She earned a BFA in studio art and theater at New York University in 2022. In 2023, she presented her first solo show with Micki Meng in San Francisco, curated by Aleesa Pitchamarn Alexander, PhD, Robert M. and Ruth L. Halperin, Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art and co-founder of Asian American Art Initiative, Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University. Her work is included in the permanent collections of the Cantor Arts Center, ICA Miami, AMOCA Wales, and the Museu Inimá de Paula, Brazil. In 2021, she was an Ellen Battell Stoeckel Fellow at the Yale Norfolk School of Art in Connecticut.

“I paint places and things that I’d like to experience and go into. Painting and drawing are ways to bring into existence what I see in my mind’s eye. Once materialized, I can go into it with my body, and then new things emerge. Sometimes it is a continuation of a world, and other times they're the beginnings of a new one."

–Molloy

"The paintings are intimately tied to human scale. Their dimensions have to do with the way we see and walk. Seeing something is touching it, and spatial illusion solicits feeling and movement. Pace, thrust, air, surface, balance, tension, sound… our body is the measure of these physical sensations in the inert painting. It is a field of energy contained within the four edges of its frame—but the sensation can envelop and protrude/pierce beyond its flat surface and corners.”

–Molloy

Photos by Layton Miles Davis
Paintings photographed are in progress