Born in 1960 in London, Nicola Tyson has been living and working in New York since the early 1990s. Tyson’s paintings and drawings have often been compared to those of Francis Bacon, Leon Golub, and the German Expressionists of the early twentieth century for her treatment of the figure. The assured, yet almost tortured draftsmanship of Tyson’s untitled charcoal drawing of 2003 brings to mind Egon Schiele’s self-portraits of the 1910s. Tyson’s work is in the collections of the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, the Tate Modern in London, and many other museums.