Nadeau’s work is grounded in a sustained investigation of abstraction—its histories, its failures, and its enduring capacity for reinvention. His paintings and works on paper emerge through layered acts of construction and erasure, where gesture, structure, and revision remain visible as living evidence. The result is an image that feels both deliberate and provisional: forms that press forward even as they threaten to slip apart. Across more than two decades, Nadeau has developed a practice attuned to the instability of perception and the generative possibilities of doubt. His surfaces register time—accumulated marks, hesitations, reconsiderations—creating a visual field that is at once analytic and deeply intuitive. In this way, Nadeau’s work operates as a model of thinking: an image continually negotiating how to exist. He has presented solo and two-person exhibitions at Spring Break Art Fair (2024), Mixed Greens (2008, 2006), Markus Winter, Berlin (2006), LFL/Zach Feuer Gallery (2002), and the Hudson Walker Gallery in Provincetown (2000). His work has appeared in numerous group exhibitions in the U.S. and abroad, including recent presentations at County Gallery, Palm Beach (2025), the Judy Black Memorial Gallery (2024), Furnace Gallery (2023), Freight & Volume (2018), Loretta Howard Gallery (2013), Jason McCoy Gallery (2012, 2011), and Marlborough Gallery (2006, 2005). Nadeau’s practice has been widely discussed in publications such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Brooklyn Rail, Time Out New York, Vanity Fair, and Paper Magazine, among others. His work has been supported by residencies at Yaddo, the Edward Albee Foundation, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and the University of Tennessee, and he is a recipient of grants from the Joan Mitchell Foundation. Alongside his studio practice, Nadeau has contributed to contemporary painting discourse through his curatorial projects—including The Space Between (2024) and the influential Brooklyn exhibitions Wavers (2012) and Snowclones (2011)—and through teaching roles at Queens College, Northwestern Connecticut Community College, Western Connecticut State University, Cooper Union, Brown University, Parsons, and others. He holds a BA from Brown University and an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design.