Grace Nickel

Grace Nickel (born 1956) is a Canadian ceramic artist and art instructor in post-secondary education.

Early life Grace Nickel was born in 1956 in Altona, Manitoba, Canada. She earned her BFA in Ceramics from the University of Manitoba in 1980; In 1999, she created a tile triptych to honour of the hosting of the Pan Am Games that was subsequently exhibited at Winnipeg City Hall. She created a work for the entrance to the Beechwood National Cemetery in Ottawa, Ontario.

Nickel teaches ceramics full-time in the School of Art of the University of Manitoba.

Exhibitions Nickel's work has been exhibited in the United States and overseas in Australia, Japan, New Zealand and Taiwan, including: Devastatus Rememorari, Mary E. Black Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 2008; Gallery in the Park, Altona, Manitoba 2009 Arbor Vitae, Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, Waterloo, ON, 2015; Actual Contemporary, Winnipeg, MB, 2016; Disjecta Contemporary Art Centre, Portland, OR, 2017; the Moose Jaw Museum and Art Gallery, 2018 Eruptions, Art Gallery of Burlington, 2019; Gallery 1C03 at the University of Winnipeg in 2022 Inter Artes et Naturam (Between Art and Nature), Winnipeg Art Gallery, 2023

Selected collections In Canada her work has been included in the collections of: The Claridge Collection, Montreal (1989 to 2015) Winnipeg Art Gallery Government of Manitoba art collection Art Gallery of Nova Scotia National Museum of History, Taipei, Taiwan Museum of Modern Ceramic Art, Gifu, Japan New Taipei City Yingge Ceramics Museum, Taiwan

Awards Bronze Award, 2nd International Ceramics Competition 1989, Mino, Japan