Nicole Belle is in her final year of the MFA in Visual Art program at the University of California, Riverside. She earned a B.A. in French Literature from New York University, worked for the Associated Press in their Photography Department, and studied at the School of Visual Arts, before earning a BFA in Fine Art Photography from Rochester Institute of Technology. Her work has been shown at the New Wight Gallery at UCLA; the Riverside Art Museum; the Brand Gallery in Glendale, California; the Millard Sheets Gallery in Pomona, California; the Sweeney Art Gallery in Riverside, California; High Energy Constructs in Los Angeles; the CSU Long Beach Galleries; and various group shows in Rochester, New York and Minneapolis, Minnesota. She currently lives and works in Los Angeles.