Edie Nadelhaft

Biometric Portrait (Marilyn)

Oil on canvas

“An oil-on-shaped-canvas painting of a greatly enlarged human iris that touches upon themes of power, identity, preciousness, and psychedelic sexiness while mixing the tropes and techniques of the centuries-old genre of portraiture with the tools and ideologies of digital culture.”

— Edie Nadelhaft

About the artist

Edie Nadelhaft

American

Edie Nadelhaft is a visual artist whose vivid realist paintings and playful glass and mixed media sculptures address the impact of digital culture on human experience, our evolving relationship to the natural world, issues of privacy and power, and a rapt bewilderment at the state of the world. Born and raised in Pittsburgh, PA, Edie is a motorcycle-riding, part-time Buddhist, pescatarian, former interactive media designer and vicarious pet lover who has lived and worked on the lower east side of Manhattan since 1998.

Edie studied art history and studio art at SUNY Purchase (Purchase, NY) and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, MA), and received a BFA (with honors) from The Massachusetts College of Art & Design (1995, Boston, MA). Awards include The Edward F. Albee Foundation Fellowship (2020, Montauk, NY), AIR at Platte Clove (2008, 2018, Catskills, NY) and AIR in the Visible Vault at The Yellowstone Art Museum (2015, Billings, MT). Ms. Nadelhaft’s work has been exhibited at galleries and art fairs throughout the US, and in Europe and Asia, and has been shown at cultural institutions including The Provincetown Art Association & Museum (2023, Provincetown, MA), The Contemporary Realism Biennial at the Fort Wayne Museum of Art (2014, Fort Wayne, IN) and Face to Face: a Survey of Contemporary Portraiture at the Yellowstone Art Museum (2014, Billings, MT).