About Tracy
Tracy Keller Nickolaus is a visual artist living and working in the Milwaukee area. Raised in Maryland, she moved to Virginia where she received her BA in Studio Art from the University of Mary Washington. After living and working as a graphic artist in the District of Columbia, she relocated with her young family to Shorewood, Wisconsin 18 years ago.
In 2022 she was admitted into the Milwaukee Artist Resource Network (MARN) mentorship program, thus beginning a serious daily practice of painting and rededicating herself to her artwork. Her portraits have been included in shows throughout Wisconsin including the Charles Allis Art Museum, The Overture Galleries, Shorewood Public Library, Milwaukee Artist Resource Network, Trout Museum of Art, Miller Art Museum, The Arts Mill Gallery, and the Bedford Gallery in Walnut Creek, California. She completed a six month art residency program with the Charles Allis Art Museum located in Milwaukee, WI in 2024. Recently seventeen of her works were on exhibition at the Shorewood Public Library in the show entitled “Anticipatory Grief” through April 6, 2025
Her current body of work is a reflection on her family’s experience with memory loss and dementia.
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Anticipatory Grief
Solo show presented in partnership with Shorewood Dementia Awareness Group
Shorewood Public Library, Shorewood, WI
April 2025
The Fabric of Community
Overture Galleries, Madison, WI
Dual show with Alicia Rheal, Rotunda Gallery
November 2024 - February 2025
left with your memories
Artist in residency solo show
Charles Allis Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
September 2024 - February 2025
Motherhood & Memory
Popup gallery night with Kimberly Burnett & Meghan McGrath
TASK Gallery, Cudahy, WI
November 10th, 2023
Big Exhibit*
The Arts Mill, Grafton, WI
June - July 2023
*awarded prize for subject matter and clear storytelling
TMA Annual Juried Contemporary Art Exhibition
Trout Museum of Art, Appleton, WI
June - August 2023
Miller Museum of Art’s 48th Juried Annual Exhibition
Miller Museum of Art, Door County, WI
September - October 2023
About Face
Bedford Gallery, Lesher Center for the Arts, Walnut Grove, CA
April - June 2023
Practice in Progress
2023 MARN (Milwaukee Artist Resource Network) Mentor/Mentee 2023 Group Show, Milwaukee Wisconsin
April - June 2023
Shorewood Wisconsin Local Artist Popup
Shorewood Family Chiropractic, Shorewood, WI
20th Anniversary Celebration
September 2022
Experimental Watercolor - Group Show
Monrose Gallery, Fredericksburg, Virginia
1993
Senior Thesis Exhibition
DuPont Galleries, Fredericksburg, VA
1993
Education
1993 Bachelor of Arts, Studio Art
University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, VA
Programs
2022-2023 MARN Mentorship - participating mentee,
Milwaukee Artist Resource Network, Milwaukee Wisconsin
Interested in her work?
Please contact the artist directly at tracynickolaus@gmail.com
(please no inquiries about NFTs)
Other works and daily stories can be found on IG @tracynickolaus_art
All images belong to the artist and can not be used without her consent
