1974年出生于伊利诺伊州埃文斯顿，在加利福尼亚州圣巴巴拉长大。她就读于塔夫茨大学（文学学士），波士顿美术博物馆学校（美术学士），以及加利福尼亚州奥克兰的米尔斯学院（美术硕士）。她现居住并工作于旧金山。
妮可·蓬格拉萨米·费恩以其在纸上灵动运用颜料而闻名。回溯二十年的创作历程，她的绘画作品是按序列展开的，随着作品的发展，精致与宁静始终贯穿其中。早期作品由多层大地色调的重叠笔触构成——从左右交错到上下延展，视觉上呈现出如编织般的质感。随着时间的推移，色彩运用逐渐拓展，但依然保留了柔和的基调。大约十五年前，作品中引入了更加鲜明的色彩谱系，结合以水平线为主的构图，营造出如同光辉景观或海景般的氛围。之后，在 Tondi 系列中，辐射自中心的线条引入了圆形构图元素，进一步丰富了她以方形为主的视觉语言。
她的作品曾在国内外展出，包括旧金山、费城、休斯顿、纽约、洛杉矶、巴黎、伦敦、苏黎世和柏林。她的作品曾被《艺术论坛》、《每周》、《费城询问报》、《旧金山纪事报》、《艺术周刊》和《艺术新闻》等媒体评论。她的作品被收录于多个永久公共收藏中：旧金山艺术博物馆的Achenbach基金会、伯克利艺术博物馆、布兰顿博物馆、福格博物馆、汉默博物馆、梅尼尔素描研究所、休斯顿美术馆、旧金山现代艺术博物馆、惠特尼美国艺术博物馆等。
Born in Evanston, Illinois (1974) and grew up in Santa Barbara, California. She attended Tufts University (BA), the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (BFA), and Mills College, Oakland, CA (MFA). She lives and works in San Francisco.
Nicole Phungrasamee Fein is noted for her agile handling of pigment on paper. Going back two decades, her drawings are made sequentially. As the work has evolved, delicacy and tranquility are constant. Multiple layers of earth tones in overlapping strokes - left/right, top/bottom - defined the earliest pieces. The result is visually akin to weaving. Gradually color choices expanded but remained muted. About fifteen years ago, a decidedly more vibrant spectrum appeared. Combined with predominantly horizontal lines, these evoked luminous landscapes or seascapes. Later, lines radiating from a central point in the Tondi series introduced the circle to what had been predominantly square.
She has exhibited nationally and internationally including San Francisco, Philadelphia, Houston, New York, Los Angeles, Paris, London, Zurich, and Berlin. Her work has been reviewed in ArtForum, The Week, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The San Francisco Chronicle, Artweek and ARTnews. Her work is included in permanent public collections: the Achenbach Foundation at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; Berkeley Art Museum; Blanton Museum; Fogg Museum; Hammer Museum; Menil Drawing Institute; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Whitney Museum of American Art, among others.
