Based in Los Angeles and has participated in many exhibitions in California. Niehaus studied at Art Center, Otis School of Art and Design and LAAFA.
A gurative painter and portraitist who works in oil on canvas. Rikki states: “Painting is, for me, a direct connection to the past, a chance to ‘time-travel’ and relate immediately to the whole of artistic tradition that preceded me.” Often Niehaus will compose her paintings in conversation with an iconic painting in the canon of Western Art history.