Allison Nill, born and raised in Kansas City, Missouri, is a contemporary artist who works primarily with painting and sculpture. Her body of work is a collection of objects inspired by the colors and forms of the human body and elements found in the natural world.

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Nill explores a unique approach to portraiture, challenging traditional notions of what a portrait can be. Her work transports viewers back to nature, inviting them to examine specimens and snapshots of the natural world to reflect on their own personal identity.

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Her sculptural painting practice presents hybrid compositions that emphasize the artist’s subjective touch and the inseparable relationship between process, material, and form. Simultaneously seductive and grotesque, Nill’s work emerges from an organic, fluid process where the unpredictability of the materials helps shape the final result. As in much of her work, color plays an essential role.

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Her palette—pinks, mauves, earthy greens, ochres, gray-blues, and flesh-like taupes—is applied through dripping, brushing, pouring, and oozing, creating texture and variability on the raw, tactile surfaces of her materials. Nill's painterly use of materials re-contextualizes her forms, making them appear as three-dimensional paintings in physical space. At the core of her practice are themes of ambiguity and transformation.

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Allison Nill currently resides in Los Angeles, California. She has studied at Slade School of Fine Art, The University of Washington, and Otis College of Art and Design. Nill’s work has been exhibited in solo and group shows around the world, and she has participated in numerous residencies and intensive programs.