Nellie King Solomon holds an MFA from California College of the Arts and studied Architecture at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York City. She was a professor at Stanford University in Painting and at California College of the Arts in Drawing.

As a renowned showing painter her work has been featured in Art in America, Huffington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Examiner, Art Week, Wallpaper Magazine, Harvard Review, NYTheatre, and Architectural Digest, among other publications.

She worked in Architectural Restoration in  Venice on the Palazzo St Polo.

She is a surfer and ex-ballet dancer with the San Francisco Ballet.