Nicole Wittenberg (b. 1979) is an American artist, curator, professor, and writer residing in New York City focusing on painting natural landscapes that mirror her emotional state and feelings at precise moments. Drawing inspiration from the Impressionist movement, she transforms everyday sceneries into psychological and emotional terrains, demonstrating a profound fascination with nature and its fleeting changes. Hailing from San Francisco, CA, Wittenberg earned her BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. She was honored with the John Koch Award for Best Young Figurative Painter by the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2012. She also taught at the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting, and Sculpture, and the Bruce High Quality Foundation University, and served as a professor in the Critical Theory Department at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.

Wittenberg's artworks are featured in numerous esteemed collections, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, NY, The Albertina in Vienna, Austria, the Boston Museum of Fine Art in Boston, MA, and the Aishti Foundation in Beirut, Lebanon.