Nicole Debono

Nicole Debono is a visual artist who treats the domestic stage as a dig-site where
private ritual intersects with collective myth.

Availaible Works

Biography

Nicole Debono is a visual artist who treats the domestic stage as a dig-site

where private ritual intersects with collective myth.

 

Her compositions are typically framed in tightly-cropped views of female

protagonists and their possessions and surroundings, a process that lends

everyday objects existential weight and prompts viewers to reconsider what seems familiar.

 

Her process involves gathering a diverse array of visual references, which she
curates and reconfigures to create layered, allegorical works that investigate the
tensions between personal memory and shared cultural narratives. Her research
moves between studio observation and study of symbolic imagery, psychology,
historical art references and the human body in contemporary contexts.

 

Her work oscillates between dualities: innocence and experience; agency and
restraint; the personal and the universal.

Selected Exhibitions

Exhibitions

2026 : Visions Are Seldom What They Seem, solo exhibition curated by Rachelle Bezzina, Malta Society of Arts, Palazzo de la Salle, Valletta,Malta

2026 : A Thousand Monkeys x Cane-Yo, curated by Rhiad Gahmi, Galerie Roch20, Paris, France

2025 : Poetics of Space, 1926 La Galerie, Christine X Curated, Valletta, Malta

2025 : We Fell in Love on the Internet, Copeland Gallery, London, UK

2024 : The Silk Road, The Three Palaces, Malta

2024 : Bath Society of Artists 119th Exhibition — Victoria Art Gallery, Bath, United Kingdom

2024 : Rock, Paper ‘/·\ II- A Cane-Yo Collective Group Exhibition, Fine Arts Gallery, Casemates, Gibraltar

2023 : Xewka f’Qalbi, Xewka f’Sormi, Rosa Kwir, Balzan, Malta

2023 : Rock, Paper ‘/·\ – A Cane-Yo Collective Group Exhibition, Fine Arts Gallery, Casemates, Gibraltar

2023 : Mara, Bureau Iniala, Valletta, Malta

2023 : Wish you were here II, Dalek Art Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium

2023 : Group Exhibition – Order of Malta National Art Exhibition, Casa Lanfreducci

2022 : Lost in the Ether, First solo exhibition, Art Sweven Gallery, Malta

2022 : Wish you were here, Dalek Art Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium

2021 : The Pandemic – Survival, Art & New Action, Malta Enterprise, Malta

Awards & Nominations

2024 : Awarded the KBIC x ARTZ ID Studio Space Award, by Malta Enterprise and ARTZ ID, Malta, May 2024 – November 2024.

2023 : Get Quarantined with Nicolás Uribe – Training and Development Support Scheme Award by Arts Council Malta (2023)

2022 : Nominated for the 2022 Young Artist of the Year category, Premju ghall-Arti, Arts Council Malta

2014 : Visual Arts Award, Saint Aloysius College

Selected Article

Education

2024 : Mentorship programme with ARTZ ID as part of the Arti bħala Intrapriża KBIC x ARTZ ID Studio Space Award

2024 : Colleen Barry: ‘Love Dogs Painting Process’

2023 : Get Quarantined with Nicolás Uribe: Muse Hacking program,
Lazareto, Menorca, Spain (funded by the Arts Council Malta)

2022 : Ruprecht Van Kauffman: Painting and Drawing from Imagination, The Art Digger Lab (Online programme)

2014 : Art and History of Art, Saint Aloysius College, Birkirkara

2013 : Live Nude Figure Programme, Malta School of Art, Valletta

2009 – 2013 : Malta School of Art, Valletta

Collections

Private Collectors

  • Dublin, Ireland

  • Berlin, Germany

  • Los Angeles, California

  • Valletta, Malta

  • Scotland, United Kingdom

  • London, United Kingdom

  • Sliema, Malta

  • Kalamaria, Greece
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