NIKU RADAN - MULTIMEDIA ARTIST





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NIKU RADAN is a multimedia artist based in Queens who specializes in gouache and oil painting, ceramic forms, comedy writing, and sonic compositions. She studied traditional visual art at the Ruth Asawa School of the Arts and holds a B.A. in Broadcasting, with an emphasis in Television Writing and Production, from San Francisco State University. She primarily uses ancient visual arts practices to explore our collective hyperreality. She currently works as a ceramic studio manager and as a freelance fabricator for SOFT Lab. She is open to freelance and full time work.




EDUCATION:
Ruth Asawa School of the Arts, Visual Arts (2018)

San Francisco State University, Broadcast and Electronic Communication Arts (2022)

San Francisco Center for the Book, Bookbinding (2024)


D&AD Shift in Collaboration with Airbnb and Diageo, Art Direction (2026, did not graduate)



EMPLOYMENT: Intermediate Fabricator @ SOFT Lab, 2026-present

Administrative Manager, Wheel Throwing Instructor @ DOCLAY, 2026-present

Artist’s Assistant and Studio Manager @ Betsy Damon, 2025

Stagehand, Electrician @ I.A.T.S.E. Local 16, 2023

Legal Research Assistant @ San Francisco SPCA, 2023

Youth Program Coordinator @ Mission Academy of Performing Arts, 2018-2023

Associate Editor @ Ex Post Facto, 2018-2019

SPARK UX Mentee @ Blackboard, 2012-2013




SKILLS
Art direction
Fabrication
Painting
Knitting
Crochet

Screenwriting
Line editing
Media analysis
Music composition

Blender
Framer
G Suite
Adobe Creative Cloud
Microsoft Office
Administrative emails
Scheduling
Sawyer
Salesforce
Airtable




Exhibitions
Cooper Union’s Electric Carnival, Nha Minh’s Big Ass Summer Group Show


PublicationsWriter’s Block Mag, Cowlick Comics 7, Trickshot 3, Trickshot 4, Ternstiele, Soundfynd 

*YOU WANT MORE?


Head on over to https://5829981.cargo.site/ to see my completed works.

Last Updated 2.5.2026