Kole Nichols (b. 1998) is a multidisciplinary artist whose work often utilizes the languages of drawing, painting, printmaking and sculpture as an expanded approach to art-making in order to navigate his conceptual interests. Born and raised in Alabama Nichols’ attended both the University of Alabama at Birmingham and The University of Alabama where he received his MFA. Currently, Nichols resides in Atlanta, Georgia where he works as both an artist and educator.

Recently Nichols’ work has consisted of the exploration of physical, spiritual, and emotional spaces. Through a process of internal reflection, he distorts familiar architectural motifs such as gates, windows, and doors into amalgamated compositions gathered from personal recollections both vague and vivid. Alongside these terrestrial thresholds, he mounts parallel explorations of non-physical boundaries through loose constructions of star fields, maps, and charts. It is through these endeavors that Nichols seeks to create pathways, markers, and structures to guide himself.

Kole Nichols has presented solo exhibitions at Hawkins Headquarters (Atlanta, GA), The Gadsden Museum of Art (Gadsden, AL), The Wiregrass Museum of Art (Dothan, AL), Swan Coach House Gallery (Atlanta, GA), Room 412 (Birmingham, AL), Day & Night Projects (Atlanta, GA), Institute 193 (Lexington, KY), Whitespace Gallery (Atlanta, GA), Monaco (St. Louis, MO), and Sella-Granata Gallery (Tuscaloosa, AL).

Group exhibitions include presentations at Scott Miller Projects (Birmingham, AL), Duve//Passage (Berlin, Germany), The Huntsville Museum of Art (Huntsville, AL), Johnson Lowe Gallery (Atlanta, GA), The Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts (Montgomery, AL), Hunt Gallery (Toronto, ON), Pond Gallery (Fayetteville, AR), the University of Alabama Biennial (Tuscaloosa, AL), Goat Farm (Atlanta, GA), Dalton Gallery (Decatur, GA), Wavelength Space (Chattanooga, TN), Take It Easy (Atlanta, GA), and Whitespace Gallery (Atlanta, GA).

Nichols has participated in the Atlanta Art Fair (Atlanta, GA) and Friends Fair with Wolfgang Gallery (Austin, TX). His work has been featured in Burnaway, the University of Alabama Biennial catalogue, The Red Clay Survey: 2020 Exhibition of Contemporary Southern Art catalogue, and Aura Literary Arts Review. In 2025, he received the Forward Arts Foundation Edge Award at Swan Coach House Gallery (Atlanta, GA).