Zoe Nelson (born 1983) lives and works in New York and received her MFA from Columbia University in May 2009. Upon receiving her BA from Barnard College in 2006, Zoe was awarded the Josephine Paddock Post-Baccalaureate Fellowship which allowed her to spend four months in Pont-Aven Brittany, at the Pont-Aven School of Contemporary Art. In 2005, Zoe attended Yale's Norfolk Summer Program.