Nickola Pottinger 🇯🇲

Thank. You to everyone at. MoMA PS1 for. Including my work in Greater New York ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨ @elenamariakg , Andrea Sanchez, Ruba Katrib, @krittenbach @jody_graf @cornelia.butler and all the kick ass people who packed carried installed photographed -all the goods @zaharvaks ⚔️ Thank you to. My. Family, mi love. Unnu!!!!!! ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨ MoMA PS1 Greater New York 2026 through - August 17, 2026 Nickola Pottinger guh live long, 2026 34 × 17 x 35 inches Our signature survey of artists living and working in the New York City area returns for its sixth edition this spring, coinciding with MoMA PS1’s 50th anniversary. Spanning two floors of the museum, Greater New York 2026 brings into focus over 50 multidisciplinary artists in the formative years of their careers. This highly anticipated iteration will encompass site-specific commissions, new productions, and performances, alongside important recent works that address today’s most urgent cultural concerns. Organized for the first time by MoMA PS1’s full curatorial team, the exhibition emphasizes the forces that shape daily life in the city today, as well as strategies of resistance and adaptation in the face of increased surveillance, economic precarity, and shifting technologies. Greater New York 2026 registers an optimism and anxiety generated through artists’ attention to the layered, lived textures of New York City!!

Than k. Youi! for including my work. In this magical show @geraldlovell @edendeering @ellablanchon @ppowgallery 🫶🏾 💞 On view until June 6th amongst these stars ✨ ✨ @geraldlovell @devinnmorris @cvsreceipt @taytheism @talwst @breandy 💐💐💐

Thank. You Andrea, Elena And Ruba for inviting me To. Contribute to this. year’s Greater New York MoMA PS1 🖤🖤full of. Love and grace🌘🌘 @momaps1 A time. To. Create (always) To. My. Family ⚔️

Thank you, @leezameksin . And @bombmag . For this interview on my current solo exhibition, “fos born” at @thealdrich , running until January 11. Leeza tapped into me and allowed space for honesty and raw vigor, and I’m deeply grateful for that exchange. I appreciate all of the press and support that fos born has received. The exhibition runs until January 11. At The Aldrich. Thank. You @amy_smithstewart @thealdrich ❤️

Our next interview is with Nickola Pottinger❤️‍🔥 Nickola’s exhibition fos born is on view until January 11, 2026 at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum✨ @thealdrich __ Images: 1: Portrait of Nickola Pottinger and Zora, 2025. 2. Aunty and grandad, 2025 Paper pulp, pigments, tape, gold leaf, fabric. 22 x 17 x 16 3. fos born, 2025 Paper pulp, polyurethane, pigments, moss, teeth, dirt, oil pastel, moss. 45 x 50 x 21 4. mad to raaatid, 2025 Paper pulp, metal, hair, aluminum, dirt, antelope horn, lava rock, frankincense, resin, teeth. 40 x 30 x 13 5. Memba wen wi did young, 2023 Paper pulp, pigments, twine, wood, oven mitts, hair baubles, hair clips and teeth. 47 x 40 x 31 All images courtesy of the artist. #artistsandmothers #nickolapottinger #thealdrichcontemporarymuseumofart

This is for her I’m. Late To post this— But time… has been exponential. Transformative. Unfolding. Wild. This summer was the opening of my first solo museum show — “Fos Born” — at @thealdrich A tribute to my daughter born last October. As we near her solar return, I find myself— Grateful. Present. In awe of what has bloomed. I am eternally grateful to @amy_smithstewart and the entire Aldrich team for believing in this work, this offering, this becoming. To my husband. To my family. To my daughter— You are the reason. The rhythm. The root. I. Love you @zaharvaks To those who’ve visited, witnessed, felt it— Thank you. And. The catalog — my first (!) — Immortalizes this exhibition Thank yoiu! @amy_smithstewart @gakraus @olyshannon @____mrs.____ @warholfoundation — With all my love

This past Sunday, our beloved Zeida passed peacefully, with @nickolapottinger and I holding her close. She was 15 years old. We are heartbroken, but above all, deeply grateful — for every year, every moment, and every bit of love we shared with this incredible soul. Zeida wasn’t just our dog — she was family. If you met her, you felt her kind and radiant spirit. She brought joy, light, and warmth to every room, every walk, every cuddle. We are so thankful for our friends, family, and community who loved her over the years. You helped shape her beautiful life, and she loved you all back just as fiercely. A special thank you to @jessijamzzz for rescuing Zeida from the kill list and bringing her into our lives — you gave us a gift beyond words. And thank you to @kibbayamout for immortalizing her in this stunning drawn portrait — a piece of her we’ll always have with us. Zeida, you will continue to radiate — on this earth and beyond. Forever in our hearts. Thank you for everything you taught us. We love you always.

In Aunty and grandad, 2025, Pottinger shapes paper pulp into a textured surface that holds the imprint of memory. Pigments mark the form with subtle depth, while fabric extends outward in patterns that suggest wings. Gold leaf crowns the figure of her aunt, represented as an angel, beside her grandfather in his Sunday best with palms joined in prayer. Created for fos born, the artist’s debut solo museum exhibition, the work reflects her commitment to honoring lineage and transforming everyday materials into vessels of remembrance. @nickolapottinger @amy_smithstewart @____mrs.____ @olyshannon @warholfoundation

@nickolapottinger found out she was pregnant shortly after landing her first solo exhibition.⁠ ⁠ The experience “ended up having a deep influence and was a source of major inspiration for the show,” says Amy Smith-Stewart, the curator of "fos born," on view through Jan. 11 at @thealdrich . Smith-Stewart was introduced to the artist’s work at the 2021 New Museum Triennial, where she presented a wall relief (her primary format at the time) made from experiments sculpting with paper pulp. ⁠ ⁠ By the time the Aldrich show came around, Pottinger’s work looked quite different: She had moved squarely into three dimensions. A work like the silicone mold 'Give tanks and praises' was pried off the artist's body moments before she went into labor. Another, 'Aunty and grandad,' takes the form of a bust, to which Pottinger affixed replicas of hair clips she wore as a child. Drawing on Jamaican folklore from her childhood and her experience as a new mother, "fos born" crafts a multigenerational story—both a celebration of the past and a gift to her daughter.⁠ ⁠ Link in bio to read the full profile.⁠ ⁠ Words by Melissa Smith⁠

Nickola Pottinger’s “duppies” have made their way from memory and myth into the spotlight. In her solo museum debut fos born, now on view at The Aldrich, Pottinger conjures vibrant sculptural forms from handmade paper pulp mixed with family documents, heirlooms, rubble, and reverence. As Cultured writes, her work “channels the living and the dead, the ancestral and the domestic,” grounding diasporic ritual and personal history in objects that are both protector and portal. We’re proud to be the first museum to present this powerful new body of work—rooted, radiant, and utterly alive. @nickolapottinger @cultured_mag @warholfoundation @amy_smithstewart @____mrs.____ @olyshannon @bessadler @zaharvaks

Nickola Pottinger in conversation with Torey Akers for @theartnewspaper.official on the new body of work created for her solo exhibition 'fos born,' currently on view at @thealdrich through January 2026 🗞 ❤️ curated by @amy_smithstewart Read the full interview via the link in our bio 🔗 Photography by @olyshannon

Nickola Pottinger’s “duppies”—sculptural works imbued with ancestral memory and personal mythology—gather here side by side, forming a mystical tableau. Composed of pigmented paper pulp made from family documents, past artworks, and rubble, these fantastical presences channel her Jamaican ancestry and the West Indian community of Crown Heights. Embellished with oil pastel, watercolor, Bantu knots, casts of her face and hands, teeth, and gilded Yagua leaf, the works slide between figure and object, protector and courier, dream and actuality. Together, they speak in chorus—ghosts made material. Nickola Pottinger: fos born is on view through January 11, 2026. @nickolapottinger @warholfoundation @amy_smithstewart @____mrs.____ @olyshannon