Nikita Gale holds a BA from Yale University and an MFA from University of California, Los Angeles. She attended residencies at the Coaxial, Los Angeles; Fountainhead, Miami; University of Texas, Austin; and Vermont Studio Center, Johnson. Select exhibitions include at the California African American Museum, Los Angeles; and MoMA PS1, Long Island City; Studio Museum in Harlem; and Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden, among others nationally and internationally. Nikita serves on the Board of Directors for GREX, the west coast affiliate of the AK Rice Institute for the Study of Social Systems.