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• 1 media/InstallShot2.jpg media/DontTellMeToSmile.jpg 2021-04-23T17:51:37+00:00 Nicole Daskas 9 A Retrospective image_header 2021-04-28T22:05:25+00:00 Nicole Daskas – A Retrospective 
  
  See the Exhibition here:
  https://scalar.chapman.edu/scalar/nicole-daskas-a-retrospective/index
  
  According to ArtNet, only 11% of acquisitions at prominent American Museums over the past decade were of work by women artists. According to the National Museum of Women in the Arts, women earn 70% of BFAs and 65-75% of MFAs in the US, but only 46% of working artists are women. At the Art Basel Fairs, women made up less than 25% of the artists on view over the past four years. A recent survey of the permanent collections of 18 prominent art museums in the US found that the represented artists are 87% male and 85% white.
  
  We need a feminist intervention!
  
  
  Nicole Daskas is an artist from Las Vegas, Nevada. She is currently in her senior year of undergraduate studies at Chapman University. She will receive her BFA with an emphasis in performance and video art in May 2021. She has received grant funding from her university for both her junior and senior thesis exhibitions, as well as funding to pursue research in bodily fluids within feminist performance art. The resulting project, The Leaky Female Body, culminated in a digital archive of performances as well as a series of portraits in conjunction with the research. This project highlighted artists and works left out of the traditional Western art historical canon. Daskas has presented her research at university symposiums on three occasions and has been awarded at Chapman’s Departmental exhibitions. She currently works as a gallery assistant at Chapman University Guggenheim Gallery, where she curates and installs exhibitions of both professional and student work. Daskas was recently accepted to her first artist residency.