Nikki Lindt (BFA Gerrit Rietveld Academie, MFA Yale University) is a New York City-based interdisciplinary artist whose work explores climate, ecology, and underground soundscapes through painting, drawing, video, and field recordings. Raised between the Netherlands and the United States, Lindt often collaborates closely with scientists and has several co-authored research papers that explore intersections between art, transdisciplinary engagement, climate science, and environmental change.
Her work has been exhibited internationally across museums, public art projects, and galleries, including the United Nations (Rome), COP29, Abisko National Park (Sweden), The Art Institute of Chicago, Hudson River Museum, White Mountains Museum, and a permanent soundwalk in Prospect Park (Brooklyn). In 2026, she will have a permanent exhibition opening at the Museum of the North in Fairbanks, Alaska. She is one of four artists selected for Soil Tales, a major two-year European traveling museum exhibition supported by the EU, UNESCO and the Water Museums Network. Lindt’s work will also be featured in Ecology in Contemporary Art Practices, an upcoming Yale University Press publication highlighting 25 international eco-artists.
Her work has been extensively covered by media outlets including: CBS Sunday Morning, Financial Times Sunday Magazine, NPR’s Here and Now, NY Magazine, Orion, Forbes, ArtDaily, Herald Tribune, de Volkskrant, and CUNY TV’s Sustainability Matters.
Lindt has presented widely at institutions such as Pratt Institute, The School of Visual Arts (SVA), University of Alaska, The New School, Staten Island Museum, Martin Luther King Jr. Library (Washington DC), Drew University, the Arctic Summit, American Association of Geographers annual conference (AAG), and Glass Sound Conference (University of Regina).
She has received awards and grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Brooklyn Arts Council, Puffin Foundation, Dutch Artists Grant (Fonds BKVB), and the Environmental Cultural Award (Amsterdam Environmental Protection Agency) and is currently nominated for a Trellis Grant.
Nikki Lindt
Born in Delft, the Netherlands
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY
Education
Yale University (MFA)
Gerrit Rietveld Academie (BFA), Amsterdam, Netherlands
Exhibitions
Solo/small group:
2025-2027 Soil Tales, traveling exhibition to 7 European museums, curated by Stefano Cagol, supported by the EU (Horizon grant), UNESCO, the Water Museums Network among others. Exhibiting artists: Binta Diaw, Nikki Lindt, Jo Pearl and Miguel Teodoro. (Forthcoming)
2026 Subterranean Voice, permanent art installation, University of Alaska Museum of the North, Fairbanks, AK (Forthcoming)
2025 The Underground Sound Project; Abisko, outdoor public art installation, Naturum Abisko, Sweden
2024 Subterranean Voice, COP29 (United Nations Climate Change Conference), Baku, Azerbaijan
2024 Nikki Lindt: Sight and Sounds; The Arctic Travel Sketches, COP29 Resilience Hub, NYC Climate Week, Triangle Lofts, NYC
2023 Ziemia Tunnel; The Sound Of Soil, United Nations’ Eleventh Plenary Assembly of the Global Soil Partnership, curated by Giusy Emiliano.
2022-2024 The Underground Sound Project; A Soundwalk a public art installation, Prospect Park, NYC
2022 Nikki Lindt, If the Trees Speak to Us How Will We Reply? an online solo exhibition/round table presented by The Nature of Cities
2019 Tumbling Forests of the North, The Climate Museum, featured as part of #PathwaysToClimate series in conjunction with #climateweek
2017 Unbound Fragments, Robischon Gallery, Denver
2014 Dis Place, Nikki Lindt, new works Heskin Contemporary, NYC
2010 Solastalgia, Nikki Lindt, new works Heskin Contemporary, NYC
2008 Indigenous Visitor, Heskin Contemporary, NYC
2007 Nikki Lindt – New Works, Exhibition space @ 1:46 Williamsburg, Brooklyn
2002 The Noahs, a climatic tale, – an interdisciplinary visual environmental opera, Production designer, concept, director, producer
Interdisciplinary project with environmental issues as subject matter. 10 performances at Amsterdam’s Theater Pompoen, Netherlands
2002 Nighttime Butterfly, permanent public art installation, Zicht op Oost, Amsterdam
Selected Group exhibits:
2025
The Body Politic: Women, Earth and the Environment, Hewitt Gallery of Art, curated by Kallie Cassidy and Hallie Cohen, New York City
2024
The Weight of Words Forming in the Mouth, curated by Sarah Valeri, 20 Jay Street New York Studio School Gallery, Dumbo, New York City
Shifting Horizons, Benjamin Dineen and Dennis Hull Gallery, curated by Laurie Riccadonna, Jersey City, New Jersey
Arctic Story Worlds, Siggerud Galleri, Bodo Norway, as a part of exhibition curated by Olga Zaslavskaya, Vera Kuklina and Tatiana Degai
Intervals, Robischon Gallery, Denver
Arctic Story Worlds, Washington University, curated by Olga Zaslavskaya and Vera Kuklina, Washinton DC
Rivers Flow / Artists Connect, The Hudson River Museum, curated by Jennifer McGregor and Laura Vookles, New York City
2023
Finite Art; Natural Resources on the Edge, United Nations Atrium, Rome, curated by Giusy Emiliano in partnership with FAO and agency of the United Nations in Rome
The Multi-Sensory Urban Forest Many Ways of Knowing, Sensing and Caring. Martin Luther King Jr. Library, With Mary Mattingly, Krystal C. Mack and Matthew Lopez-Jensen, Washington DC
Changing Perspectives, Naturum Abisko, Abisko, Sweden
Volume Up, The Painting Center, curated by Monica King, New York City
Bay Ridge Through an Ecological Lens, Stand4 Gallery, curated by Jennifer McGregor, Brooklyn
Artists and Scientists in the Arctic, The University of Vienna, Austria. curated by Olga Zaslavskaya, Part of the annual Arctic Science Summit Week
2022
45+, Robischon Gallery, Denver, NY
Field Station: Art-Science in the White Mountains, Museum of the White Mountains, curated by Meghan Doherty, NH
Watching the Seasons Change, Museum of the White Mountains, curated by Meghan Doherty, NH
Electropixel Festival APO-33, curated by Julien Ottavi, Festival ran in Nantes Electropixel Festival APO-33, curated by Julien Ottavi, Festival ran in Los Angeles, New York City, St, Nazaire, France, St. Ouen, France and St. Pedro, Spain
2021
Fire and Ice, curated by Barbara Zabel and Timothy McDowell, Cummings Arts Center, Connecticut College
2020
High Stakes, curated by Jenifer Doran, Robischon Gallery
2019
Imagery for ‘An Ecotopian Lexicon’, this book presents thirty novel terms that do not exist in English to envision ways of responding to the environmental challenges of our generation. University of Minnesota Press, published summer 2019
Sense of Place, curated by Michael Holden, 1 Gap Gallery, NYC
Park Place Gallery, Spring Break Art Fair, curated by Michael Holden, NYC
2018
Sense of Place, Park Place Gallery, NYC
2017
Out of View, Robischon Gallery, Denver
2014
Pulse Contemporary Art Fair, Heskin Contemporary, Miami
Summer Gallery Group, Heskin Contemporary, NYC
Crossings, Governor’s Island, NYC
2011
AAF Milano, with Gallery Vagabond, Milano, Italy
2010
New Narrative, curated by John Serdula, Heskin Contemporary, NYC
3rd Annual Governors Island Art Fair, Governors Island, NYC
2008
Natural Reaction, Metropolitan Green Gallery, NYC
Governors Island 1st Annual Art Fair , Governors Island, NYC
Artbarn, Annual exhibiton, Long Island, NY
2006
29th Small Works Exhibit, 80 Washington Square East Galleries, Juried by Jack Shainan, NYC
2005
Natural Reaction, Space B, NYC
Drawn to Drawing, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
II Exposicao Mundial Coletiva de Tema Livre, Espaco Conves, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Space B Group Show, Space B, NYC
Lightshow, Clocktower Art Space, curated by Eddy Stienhauer and Chris Schade, Brooklyn
Polderlicht Festival, Stichting Zicht op Oost, Amsterdam
De Visite is Er, Arti en Amicitae, Amsterdam
Interdisciplinary Projects / Public Installations
2026 Field Notes for Healing, UPMC Presbyterian Hospital, Pittsburgh. Permanent commissioned art installation spanning the entire patient floor of newly built UPMC Hospital. Painting and sound installations.
2018-2026 Subterranean Voice, project in collaboration with scientist Mary Beth Leigh, the George Kling science team, and many others. The project explores underground sound in the circumpolar north. Results will be on permanent display at the University of Alaska Museum of the North, Fairbanks
2020-2025 Subterranean Voice; Abisko, at Abisko Nationalpark, Sweden Made possible by the Abisko Scientific Research Station and the Swedish Polar Secritariat. In collaboration with ecologist Friederike Gehrmann and social geographer Sam Saville.
2024-2022 Access Abisko Values, at the Abisko Scientific Research Station in Arctic Sweden. The project investigates how nature’s non-materialistic values affect people’s well-being in an Arctic town like Abisko, and the significance these values have for political decisions regarding global issues regarding climate change. The team is 3 artists and 3 scientists.
2022-2019 The Underground Sound Project, explores underground sound from the soils of the Arctic to the natural areas of New York City. Public soundwalk in NYC’s Prospect Park, 2022 -2024. In collaboration with ecologists, social scientists and land managers at NYC Parks, USDA Forest Service and the Nature of Cities.
2020-2017 Tumbling Forest of the North, an ongoing series, illuminates active permafrost thaw within the Northern Alaskan landscape, in collaborated with permafrost scientists at the Geophysical Permafrost Lab and the Toolik Field Station in the arctic circle.
2019 Imagery for An Ecotopian Lexicon, novel terms that do not exist in English envisioning ways of responding to the environmental challenges of our generation. University of Minnesota Press, 2019
2007 Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies 85th Anniversary Quilt, artist and project leader
Design of 50x 80 quilt depicting the FPWAs history; quilted by Laurie Nathan. Exhibited at NYU and is permanently displayed in the Park Avenue lobby of PFWA’s Park Avenue location.
2002 “The Noahs a climatic tale” – a multimedia opera, production designer, concept, director, producer
Interdisciplinary collaborative opera with environmental issues as subject matter. 10 performances at Amsterdam’s Theater Pompoen, The Netherlands
Grants/Awards/Residencies
2025 Residency at MILL Makers Lab, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Alaska
2024 Residency at MILL Makers Lab, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Alaska
2024 Residency at Abisko Research Station, Sweden
2023 Residency at Toolik Field Station, Northslope, Alaska
2023 Residency in Yellowknife with ArsLink, Northwest Territories, CAN
2022 Residency at Abisko Research Station, Sweden
2022 Granted the 2022 Puffin Foundation Grant
2022 Granted the 2022 Brooklyn Arts Council Community Grant
2021 Granted 2021 NYC Urban Field Station Collaborative Arts Program Resident
2020 Residency at Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest, remote location – upstate NY
2019 Project PI at the Toolik Field Station in Alaska, project accepted through Toolik Field Station committee
2019 Residency at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest Field Station
2013 Nominee for the Anonymous was a Woman Award
2007 Pollock-Krasner grant
2003/5 Basis Subsidy Award Fonds voor de Beeldende Kunsten (Dutch Funding for the Arts), two year full working/living grant, The Netherlands
2002 Environmental Cultural Award 2002, Milieudienst (Environmental Protection Agency), Amsterdam, NL Annual Award/Grant presented to an artist making an impact working with environmental issues as subject matter
Video interviews, podcast, tv/radio coverage of Nikki Lindt
Sustainability Matters, CUNY TV, 2025, Panelist for Sustainability and Art episode. Other panelists include Anais Reyes (Curator at the Climate Museum) and Kendra Sullivan (Poet and co-director of the Climate Justice Hub)
Ice and Fire Podcast, November 2024, Season 2 Episode 1, All about Permafrost, interview and sharing of sound recordings in permafrost, Co-director (with Theresa Soley)
CBS Sunday Morning, Sept 2022, with interview by Serena Altschul, produced by Aria Shavelson
Sound Artist Nikki Lindt on Recording a Hidden Universe
NPR’s Here and Now, September 2022, interview/podcast by Jane Clayson
The Underground Sound Project puts an ear to the ground — and underneath
Jenny Schweitzer Bell, producer and director 2022
Beneath Our Feet, a short doc featuring Nikki Lindt
*premiered May 26th at the Mountainfilm Film Festival in Telluride, CO
Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest, produced by Joe Klementovich, Sept 2019
Nikki Lindt – Artist in Residence
Robischon Gallery, April 2017
Interview with Nikki Lindt
Artist lectures/talks
2025 Visiting Artist, music department, University of Alaska Fairbanks, AK
2025 Artist Talk and soundwalk, University of Alaska Juneau, AK
2025 Artist Talk and critique, School of the Visual Arts (SVA), NYC
2025 Artist Talk Reconnect: Sounds Of Nature hosted by Swissnex (Swiss Government), NeueHouse, NYC
2024 Artist Talk at Hudson County Community College in conjunction with Shifting Horizons exhibition
2024 Workshop at iDigtoLearn community festival for Day of the Forest, Roosevelt Island, NYC
2024 Artist Talk and workshop at New York Botanical Gardens, the Bronx, NYC
2024 Artist talk and seminar at University of Alaska Fairbanks. Followed by a Artist led soundwalk
2024 Artist talk at Pratt Institute, this talk was part of the Civic Engagement Series organized by Mary Mattingly
2023 Martin Luther King Jr. Library, The Multi-Sensory Urban Forest Many Ways of Knowing, Sensing and Caring. A rotating workshop with four presenters other three presenters are Mary Mattingly, Krystal C. Mack and Matthew Lopez-Jensen, A World Forum on Urban Forests side event, Washington DC
2023 Honoree and guest speaker and presenter for College of Arts and Sciences Core Connection Lecture Series for 2023, University of New England.
2023 Speaker and workshop at World Forum on Urban Forests Side Event, ‘The Multi-sensory Urban Forest; Many Ways of Knowing and Caring’, Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library. Other 3 speakers are Mary Mattingly, Krystal Mack and Matthew Lopez-Jensen
2023, Speaker and panelist for Breakfast talk at the Brooklyn Waterfront Research Center: Other speakers are curator Jennifer McGregor, Stand4 Gallery owner Jeannine Bardo and fellow artist Kate Dodd.
2023 Speaker and panelist hosted by Ecoartspace: Other speakers are curator Jennifer McGregor, Stand4 Gallery owner Jeannine Bardo and fellow artist Christopher Lin.
2023 Lead for workshop given by the Stem Teachers NYC to train NYC public school teachers on new ways of teaching.
2023 Led workshop for annual winter workshop given by the Watershed Agricultural Council to train NYC public school teachers on new ways of teaching.
2022 Studio visit/ Drew University, for class called ‘New York Semester on Contemporary Art’
2022 Speaker and panelist at GLASS: Listening as a Shared and Social Practice, University of Regina, Canada
2022 Speaker and panelist at the AAG (American Association of Geographers) Conference in New York City.
2022 Artists talk / presentation at the Staten Island Museum
2022 Artists talk / presentation at The Dalton School, NYC as part of a speakers series for the high school on Climate Change
2021 Artist talk / Visiting Artist, Parson’s School of Design / The New School, New York, NY
2021 Artists talk / presentation at TNOC (The Nature of Cities) Festival
2021 Artist talk / Visiting Artist, School of the Visual Arts (SVA), New York, NY
2020 Artist talk / Visiting Artist, San Jose State University
2020 Artist talk, Eco Art Space, Tree Talk Series
2019 Artist talk at Toolik Field Station, Alaska
2019 Artist talk at Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest, NH
Bibliography
Ecology in Contemporary Art Practices, 2027 (Forthcoming), Yale University Press, one of 25 artists included in book
Landscape Research Magazine April 02, 2024 Transdisciplinary and arts-centered approaches to stewardship and sustainability of urban nature. Lead Author- Lindsay Campbell. Co-authors- Chris Fremantle, David Maddox, Erika Svensen, Sarah Hines, Mary Mattingly, Matthew Lopez-Jensen, Nikki Lindt, Liza Paqueo, and Michelle Johnson
Financial Times Magazine October 28, 2023
’Nikki Lindt wants you to listen to the sound of the planet melting’
About Art Online (Italian Arts and Humanities Magazine) October 2023
’Finite Art; Soil and Water, Resources on the Edge’
City Lore: Sense & the City Blog by Caitlin Van Dusen Sept 2023
’SOUND: Nikki Lindt’s Underground Sounds’
Cuyahoga Valley National Park Conservancy Newspaper by Kelly McGreal July 2023
’The Art of Listening: An Interview with Nikki Lindt’
Portland Press Herald by Dina Mendros February 2023
’UNE welcomes renowned artist Nikki Lindt as annual Connections Lecture speaker’
Forbes, interview and review by Chadd Scott October 2022
’A Day Out in Brooklyn, Nature + Art’
CBS Sunday Morning, with interview by Serena Altschul, produced by Aria Shavelson Sept 2022
’Sound Artist Nikki Lindt on Recording a Hidden Universe’
NPR’s Here and Now, radio interview by Jane Clayson September 2022
‘The Underground Sound Project’ puts an ear to the ground — and underneath’
Art Spiel, featured artist section
May 30, 2022
’Nikki Lindt: The Underground Sound Project’
BK Reader, article by Jessy Edwards
May 26, 2022
’New Prospect Park Exhibit Takes Visitors on a Journey Into What Life Sounds Like … Underground’
University of Alaska Fairbanks Newspaper, article by Haley Dunleavy
March 17, 2022
‘Reverberations in Permafrost Thaw’
Artists and Climate Change, article by Susan Hoffman Fishman
September 27, 2021
‘Fire and Ice’
Art Daily
September, 2021
‘Fire and Ice exhibition opens at Cummings Arts Center Connecticut College’
Art Review Asia, an Ecotopian Lexicon
April 1, 2020
‘An Ecotopian Lexicon’
The New Yorker, article by Hua Hsu
Feb. 21, 2020
‘The Search For New Words To Make Us Care About The Climate Crisis’, review of An Ecotopian Lexicon.
Artists and Climate Change, article by Jena Pincott, 2020
’Ecotopian Art amidst Climate Change: An Interview with Mathew Schneider-Mayerson and Nikki Lindt’
Science, AAAS, article by Deborah Dixon, Oct. 15, 2019
‘Two books -one fictional, one dictionary-probe how we conceive of our changing world’
Two Coats of Paint, A Pocket Guide to Painting at Spring/Break Art Show
March 9, 2019
Artists and Climate Change, article by Nikki Lindt, 2019
’Off the Road, A Trip to the Arctic’
An Ecotopian Lexicon, editors of this book are Matthew Schneider-Mayerson and Brent Ryan Bellamy. Forward by Kim Stanley Robinson, University of Minnesota Press, published summer 2019
Elliman Magazine, The Art Issue, article by Marcia Lerner
Winter, 2018
’Inside Williamsburg, Brooklyn with Painter Nikki Lindt’
Orion Magazine
September, 2017
’Extraction’ – article and image on fold out centerfold insert
Robischon Gallery
June 20, 2017
’Artist Interview’ – Video
Westword, article by Michael Paglia
June 6, 2017
’Robischon has Another Winner with Out of View’ -Review
Greenpoint Gazette, article by Tanay Warerkar
June 19, 2014
’A Greenpoint Artist mourns the Environment Through her Paintings’ -Review
Art Daily
May 22, 2014
’Exhibition at Heskin Contemporary presents 25 acrylic paintings on panel by Nikki Lindt’
Huffington Post, review by Mark Wiener and Linda DiGusta
September 10, 2010
’Conceptual Kitchen’s and Others… The Governor’s Island Art Fair’ -Review
New York Magazine, review by Emma Pearse for Vulture, Art Candy
April 25, 2008, New York City
’Artist Nikki Lindt takes a Sandy Sojourn’ -Review
L-Magazine, article by Nicole Rose Bouchard pp 45
May 11-25 Bi-weekly magazine 2005, New York City
’Art in the City – Natural Reaction at Space B Gallery’ -Review and Interview
F News Magazine, article by Katrina Kuntz pp 29
Cultural magazine 2005, Chicago
’Drawn to Drawing’ -Review
Time Out Chicago, issue # 11, article by Madeleine Musser
May 12-19 weekly magazine 2005, Chicago
’Drawn to Drawing’ -Review
Milieudefensie, article by Michiel Bussink pp 20-21
March monthly magazine 2002, Environmental magazine, The Netherlands
’Klimaatopera’ (Climate Opera) -Review and Interview
Uitkrant, article by Marion Schrooten pp 9
February 2002 monthly magazine, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
’Achter de schermen bij een moderne opera’ (Behind the Scenes of a Contemporary Opera) -Review and Interview
Herald Tribune, text by Naomi Lindt
7-10 en 13-17 February 2002, European newspaper
’The Noahs’
Highlights, article by Theodoros Abazis (Greek cultural magazine) pp 34-36
February monthly magazine 2002
’Multimedia Opera’ -Review and Interview
Het Parool, article by Bart Krieger
02-11-2001 Newspaper, The Netherlands
’Afscheid van het Polderweggebied’ (Farewell to the Polderweg Area)-Review and Interview
Polderlicht Catalogue pp.2
published 11 2001
Dwars door de buurt, article by Robert de Lange
02-24-2001, monthly city newspaper, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
’Kunst in de metro Nikki Lindt’ (Art in the Subway – Nikki Lindt) -Interview
De Echo
01-31-2001, monthly newspaper, The Netherlands
’Metrokunst Nikki Lindt’ (Metro Art)
Amsterdams Stadblad Amsterdam
02-06-2002, The Netherlands
’Ark van Noach en het Milieu’ (Noah’s Ark and the Environment)
Teaching
2023 University of New England, honoree, visiting critic and guest speaker for College of Arts and Sciences Annueal 2023 Core Connections Lecture Series
2010-2015 CUNY (BMCC) adjunct professor. Classes: Drawing and Art History I
2006-2010 HCCC (Hudson County Community College) adjunct professor. Classes: Experiencing Art, Sculpture, Drawing and Design
2005 Art Institute of Chicago, Visiting Critic, Graduate and Undergraduate
Yale University, TA, Painting
Norfolk (Yale Summer Program), TA, Drawing
“My relationship to the world was initially shaped in my early years in the Netherlands, an over-cultivated country filled with crowds of people, where the immense cloud filled skies constantly swept against the ordered Dutch society. My early observations of a natural world was set against the backdrop of a nation which sits below sea level and is reliant on great walls to keep out the ever-rising sea. This is a constant reminder that ultimately, nature cannot be truly harnessed.”