Nicole Phungrasamee Fein

Nicole Phungrasamee Fein (born 1974) is an American abstract artist based in San Francisco, California. She is known for meticulous, process-oriented watercolor drawings consisting of innumerable lines, dots or washes of color, often arranged in grid or radial patterns. Critics frequently describe the drawings as elegant, serene and ethereal, noting a contrast between Fein's painstaking methods and the visual and emotional impact of the work. Artforum critic Elliott Zooey Martin wrote, "Like Agnes Martin, Fein is interested in the meditative calm afforded by a serial process … While the prescriptive nature of her mark-making system may seem rationalized or detached, the drawings are acutely alive. It is this tension—between the predetermined rigor of Fein’s system and the sheer beauty of the outcome—that makes these pieces so fascinating."

Fein has exhibited at institutions including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Berkeley Art Museum; and San Jose Museum of Art. Her work is held in the collections of those four museums, as well as at the Whitney Museum, Hammer Museum and Brooklyn Museum, among others.