Through her work in printmaking, drawing, and installation, Nicola López describes and reconfigures our contemporary — primarily urban — landscape. Pointing to deep connections and rifts between our human-constructed world and the systems and cycles of nature, López engages architecture and urban structure as ever-accumulating evidence of human aspirations and failures. Her work draws on anthropology, architecture, urban planning, and historical and fictional explorations of utopia/dystopia. López’ also leans heavily on material processes, intentionally bringing joy, improvisation, and care into the work as it reflects on human patterns of extraction and construction. Her work is held in numerous prominent institutional collections and has been exhibited throughout the United States and internationally, including at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA and the Guggenheim Museum in NY, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museo Rufino Tamayo in Mexico City, the Denver Art Museum, Nevada Museum of Art, the Albuquerque Museum and the Inside-Out Museum in Beijing. In 2011, López was invited to build an installation in the rotunda of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, as part of the museum's Intervals series.