WordPress conditional not working

I need to hide a specific portion of my footer file if the page being displayed is the “artists page”. The content i was told to hide was all jumbled together in the footer so i separated that part, and placed it in its own file. lets call that file, file X.php, which I placed back on the footer via an include.

This is the link that’s telling me that my page id is “4”:

wp-admin/post.php?post=4&action=edit

I need file X.php to only show, when the page being shown to the user is not artists page. So essentially, i need file X.php to show on every page except the artists page.

I used a simple conditional like so:

if ( ! is_page( 'artists' ) ) { include('file X.php'); } 
//i used this to target the page by page name

/=========

if ( ! is_page( '4' ) ) { include('file X.php'); }
//i used this to target the page by page id

and the page never hides. its always shown.

i referenced this link/page: https://codex.wordpress.org/Conditional_Tags

and other pages like it, including posts here on SO but yeah, not sure what I’m doing wrong.

I don’t get any errors or anything broken. When i leave that code in place(by page title or id), the footer shows as its supposed on the other pages, but unfortunately shows on the artists page as well when i need it not to.

Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advanced.

EDIT***

i used: var_dump( get_queried_object() );

and this is what it returned:

object(stdClass)#376 (17) { 
    ["term_id"]=> &int(3) 
    ["name"]=> &string(15) "featuredArtists" 
    ["slug"]=> &string(15) "featuredartists" 
    ["term_group"]=> int(0) 
    ["term_order"]=> string(2) "11" 
    ["term_taxonomy_id"]=> int(3) 
    ["taxonomy"]=> string(8) "category" 
    ["description"]=> &string(0) "" 
    ["parent"]=> &int(0) 
    ["count"]=> &int(3) 
    ["filter"]=> string(3) "raw" 
    ["cat_ID"]=> &int(3) 
    ["category_count"]=> &int(3) 
    ["category_description"]=> &string(0) "" 
    ["cat_name"]=> &string(15) "featuredArtists" 
    ["category_nicename"]=> &string(15) "featuredartists" 
    ["category_parent"]=> &int(0) 
}