Nikita Gale (b. 1983, Anchorage; lives and works in Los Angeles) received an MFA from University of California, Los Angeles (2016) and a BA from Yale University (2006). Solo exhibitions have been held at Petzel, New York (2024); Emalin, London (2024); Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles (2022, 2018); Chisenhale Gallery, London (2022); LAXART (2022); 52 Walker, New York (2022); Anchorage Museum (2021); CIRCA, London (2021); California African American Museum, Los Angeles (2021); MoMA PS1, Queens (2020); and Visual Arts Center, University of Texas at Austin (2019). Selected group exhibitions have been held at Kunsthall Bergen (2025); Tufts University Art Galleries, Medford (2025); Institute of Contemporary Art, Pittsburgh (2024); Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2024); Capitain Petzel, Berlin (2024); Tate, London (2023); Taipei Biennial (2023); Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia (2023);  Swiss Institute, New York (2022); Cincinnati Art Center (2021); Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin (2021); Nottingham Contemporary (2020); Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2019); Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2018); and Studio Museum in Harlem (2017). Gale is a recipient of Bucksbaum Award (2024), Louis Comfort Tiffany Award (2022), Henraux Sculpture Prize (2022), Fellow of Contemporary Art Fellowship (2021), and Rema Hort Mann Foundation Emerging Artist Grant (2017). Gale has participated in residencies at Denniston Hill, Woodridge (2023); Fountainhead, Miami (2019); Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2019); Atlanta Contemporary Art Center (2011-14); and Center for Photography at Woodstock (2011).

Gale’s work is in the collections of Cc Foundation, Shanghai; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Kadist Art Foundation; Marieluise Hessel Collection, Annandale-on-Hudson; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston;  Pérez Art Museum Miami; Tate, London; Studio Museum in Harlem; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.