Nanette Erika Boileau lives and works in St. Louis, Missouri in the United States. She is a doctoral student at Saint Louis University, receiving her PhD in American Studies with an emphasis on Visual Culture. Boileau received her Bachelor of Fine Arts, 1988, from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas and a Master in Fine Arts, 1994, from Pasadena Art Center College of Design in California. Curating for the last ten years at Saint Louis University Museum of Art, Boileau developed exhibitions such as; Time Play: A 25 year retrospective of Van McElwee Video Art, Lampo Leong and Yueying Zhong; Suspended Marks, Jeff Carter; Things Move, Shirley Tse; Encapsulated, and Christina Shmigel, Betwixt and Between. Boileau has also been an exhibiting artist during the same period and has exhibited with the centre of attention, London, England, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, The Sheldon Art Galleries, The Museum of Transportation Museum in St. Louis, Missouri and in Los Angeles, California at the Bradbury Building, I-KLEC/TIC gallery and the South Bay Contemporary.