Nichole Montgomery
Nichole Montgomery is an award-winning multidisciplinary visual artist and U.S. Army veteran of the 1990s, based in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Raised in the Mt. Hood wilderness of Oregon, she began her NeuroLines mark-making process at age six and has spent four decades developing it into a disciplined studio practice rooted in line work, layered mixed media, photography, printmaking, digital collage, and intuitive storytelling. Exhibiting since 2007, she has shown nationally and internationally, earning multiple awards including a National Veterans Creative Arts Festival Gold Medal, with her work and story covered in numerous publications across the country. She is a National Association of Women Artists member since 2025, an inaugural Oklahoma Visionary, and maintains her private studio at Liggett Studios inside Contemporary Arts of Tulsa.
Her NeuroLines process is a free-flowing method of connecting outer and inner lines, developed as a grounding force through childhood trauma, military service, and navigating adult life with children in the Oklahoma family court system, integrated through veteran mental health sessions over the last two decades. A strong advocate for trauma survivors and veterans who use creative practices as a means of coping and grounding, she became a full-time artist in 2024 and continues to exhibit, teach, and champion unconventional and outsider artists whose practices resist traditional categories, supporting their visibility and growth alongside her own.
Artist: www.NicholeMontgomery.com
Neurolines: www.NeuroLines.art
Photo by Anitra Lavanhar in my studio
Nichole Montgomery
