Nikki Wall received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Grand Valley State University in 1990 after studying horticulture and landscape design in North Carolina. She spent two years studying in Italy, and also studied at the Becari Language School in Oaxaca, Mexico. She runs her own studio, Nick Wall Studios, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, focusing on unique gifts and garden sculpture, sculpture design and fabrication, corporate art, large scale interior and exterior sculptural installations, and landscape design.