A RE/INTRODUCTION.
Kiki Nicole
is an anti-disciplinary fiber artist, recovering poet, caretaker of words, curator of vibes, & virtual assistant for creatives. Raised between Baltimore, MD & Charlotte, NC, their work prioritizes, excavates, & nurtures Black disabled, ungendered, femme interiority. Nicole’s creative practice thrives in the experimental & gives odic shape to the illegible, invisible, & esoteric.
Most recently, Nicole is the founder of The Well-Organized Creative—a virtual assistant service specializing in supporting creatives, small teams, & solopreneurs in admin, editorial, & publishing ventures. As The Well-Organized Creative, Kiki provides flexible & intentional support to ease challenges in your creative life & business.
They are currently based in Philadelphia, PA.
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Their writing has been featured in The Studio Museum in Harlem, Scalawag Magazine, beestung mag, and longlisted for awards from Peach Mag, Diode Editions, Platypus Press, [PANK], Frontier Poetry, and Cave Canem.
Nicole’s new media & fiber art has appeared in galleries & venues from Portland, OR to Raleigh, NC.
Their craft has been further supported by a residency at Goodyear Arts & workshops from Tin House, The Watering Hole, Pink Door, and more.
Kiki is also the co-founder of the new media/film archival project and screening series, The First and The Last (on indefinite hiatus), specializing in uplifting work by Black trans and queer new media artists often overlooked in traditional art spaces.
✴ AWARDS & HONORS
2023 Tin House Residency Finalist
2022 OPEN Contest Finalist, Frontier Poetry
2020 Toi Derricotte & Cornelius Eady Chapbook Prize Finalist, Cave Canem
2020 Little Book Contest Finalist, [PANK]
2020 Gold Prize in Poetry Shortlist, Peach Mag
2020 Broken River Prize Finalist, Platypus Press
✴ PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2022-present
Virtual Assistant, Operations Specialist, Editing, Creative Consulting, The Well-Organized Creative [Freelance]
2022-2023
Publicity and Marketing, The Well-Organized Creative [Freelance]
2022-2023
Communications Consultant, Cave Canem [Contract]
2021
Citizen Literary Fellow, Graywolf Press
2020-2021
Operations Lead, Cause Reign, W3AVING W3BS
2017-2021 [hiatus]
Co-Curator & Creative Director, The First & The Last
2016
Event Coordinator & Host, Portland Black Pride, Sankofa Collective NW
2014-2016
Operations Lead, Where Are You Press
✴ exhibitions, performances, & collabs
2023 - Group
Black Loaves, a collaborative art project, Oregon Contemporary
2022 - Group
NC Sculpture Exhibition, VAE Raleigh
2022 - Group
Empty? to Whom? (Studio Artists in Residence Showcase,) Goodyear Arts
2021 - Artist Talk
Somewhere Is A Death/With My Name/On Its Hoop Earrings, PCC Paragon Arts Gallery
2017 - Group
blk femme bell jar installation, SUCIA, UNA Gallery
negro faerie, or the Unbearable Whiteness of Dreaming, This is a Black Spatial Imaginary, PCC Paragon Arts Gallery
2017 - Collaborative Performance
the lady in purple, for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf, Odell Johnson Theatre
2016 - Collaborative Performance
i been that nigga installation (with Miranda Shepherd)/The Niggas Dream of Rivers, Destiny Arts Queer Emerging Artists Residency
✴ grants
2018 PICA Precipice Fund Award, Portland, OR, USA
2018 RACC Project Grant, Portland, OR, USA
2016 Semi-finalist, Corporeal Writing’s The Voice is a Muscle Grant, Portland, OR, USA