Sherrie Nickol is an American fine art photographer who grew up in Osceola, Arkansas, and has spent her adult life in New York City. She studied photography at the University of Cincinnati and later at the International Center of Photography in New York. Her work often explores relationships between people and their surroundings, moving between private spaces, public life, family, and individual experience. Her photographs are held in the permanent collection of the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris and in private collections across the United States, and she has had solo exhibitions at Temple University and The National Arts Club in New York City.
Her book Chrysalis (Hirmer, 2026) gathers her earliest photographs, made in the late 1970s and largely unseen for nearly fifty years. It brings together portraits of young women, photographed mainly in Cincinnati, where she was a student, and documentary photographs of Osceola, the Mississippi Delta, and New Orleans. The photographs were shot on film in natural light and are printed with their full black borders. Her previous book, Sherrie Nickol, was published by Hirmer in 2024.
