dieFirma announces Nadia Gould: Because I Am Young, Beautiful & Talented, a landmark solo exhibition of paintings and works on paper on view at 32A Cooper Square from Thursday, October 16, 2025 through Saturday, January 17, 2026. 

Unveiling work unseen for decades, Because I Am Young, Beautiful & Talented spans two distinct periods in Gould’s career. The show focuses on the intricate and lyrical geometric abstractions from the 1960s, and the exuberant representational paintings of the 1980s. We encounter a fiercely independent artist, one whose commitment to her own curiosity rewards the viewer with surprising juxtapositions of color and form. This exhibition marks the first major solo showing of Gould’s work since 1995.

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Nadia Gould

Nadia Gould (1929-2007) was born in France to Jewish parents and fled the Nazi occupation as a teenager, arriving in the United States in 1943 at age thirteen. After attending NYU to study literature, she trained with Fred Mitchell and became immersed in the post-war New York art scene. She was a member of several artist-run collectives, including the Bridge and Viridian Galleries, resulting in both solo and group exhibitions in the 1960s. Her work was notably included in the NY World’s Fair in 1965, and was a part of group shows alongside contemporaries such as Robert Ryman, Ellsworth Kelly and Lois Dodd. The 1980s saw Gould shifting her practice to the more portable medium of drawing, as her marriage to art historian Philip Gould led the family to criss-cross the globe. This drawing practice ushered in an era of figuration, culminating in a series of large scale paintings in the mid-to-late 1980s. Here we see Gould at her most freewheeling, following her own mind’s eye and creating a fantasia populated with naively drawn figures against discreet blocks of color. The result is a singular, colorful vision interweaving cultural references and the artist’s irreverent sensibility.