Niki was born in Brooklyn and since 1982, her photographs have been exhibited, published and reviewed nationally and internationally. She has received artist fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, Yaddo and the MacDowell Artist Colonies and won the Annenberg Medical Arts Award for "When Death Comesâ€.
The theme of Niki’s photographic work is the arc of life: birth and death, illness and healing, the joy of life and the grace of aging.She live on Upper West Side of Manhattan.