NICHOLAS DEVLIN

Nicholas Devlin (Ó Dobhailéin, b. 1993, Canada) is a Brooklyn-based sculptor whose work focuses on mythopoetics, fantasy literature, and architectural theory. Grounded in research spanning Yeatsian folklore to the Picturesque movement, Devlin constructs high-relief wall pieces, functional art, and spatial installations that position fantasy as the sublime threshold between a Todorov-like understanding of the uncanny and the marvellous.​

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Guided by Pallasmaa’s "thinking hand" and Christopher Alexander’s "test of aliveness," Devlin employs a custom-formulated sequence of layered mediums to obscure the material origins of his surfaces, giving his work an unreal, illusory quality. Devlin holds an MPhil from Cambridge University and a B.Env.D. (Honors) from the University of British Columbia, and recently completed an artist residency at Cill Rialaig in Co. Kerry, Ireland.

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His work has been exhibited at IRL Gallery in NYC; Superhouse Gallery in NYC and Milan, Italy; and Objective Gallery in NYC and Shanghai, China. His pieces are held in various private national and international collections. He has participated in Untitled Art Fair (2025), represented by IRL Gallery; Collectible Design Fair (2024) in NYC; and Design Miami Fair (2022) in Miami represented by Objective Gallery. In 2024, he was named a recipient of Sight Unseen’s American Design Hot List award. His work has been featured in Curbed, Artnet, The Art Newspaper, ARTnews, Architectural Digest, Sight Unseen, Domino, Hypebeast, Surface, Stirpad, Pink Essay, and more.

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CONTACT

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