Nicky Kriara is a mural painter and sculptor, born and raised in Portland, Oregon. She studied painting in Los Angeles, CA and Amherst, MA before earning her Bachelor of Fine Arts from The University of Oregon in ceramics. She ran Epitome gallery for two years in NW Portland, studied Environmental Education (Leadership for Ecology, Culture & Learning Program) at Portland State, and spent almost ten years working in the field of stop-motion animation. She has worked on three animated feature films with LAIKA Studios as a scenic painter and puppet test-animator. Between painting murals, she runs a small-batch ceramic production company called Niko Far West.
