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Nicholas Nixon    (American, 1947)

 Nicholas Nixon - Untitled (Photographs)
Nicholas Nixon
Untitled
 
  

Biography
1947 Born in Detroit, MI
1969 B.A., English, University of Michigan
1974 M.F.A., University of New Mexico
1976 National Endowment for the Arts Photography Fellowship
1977 J. Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
1980 National Endowment for the Arts Photography Fellowship
1982 Massachusetts Council of the Arts, "New Works" Grant
1986 J. Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
1987 Natl Endowment for the Arts Photography Fellowship
1988 Friends of Photography Peer Award
2000 George Gund Foundation Fellowship

Exhibitions
2008 Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, NY
2007 Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)
2007 St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MS (solo)
2007 The Naked Portrait, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
2007 The Photographer’s Contract, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany; Academie der Künste, Berlin, Germany
2006 Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX (solo)
2006 In the Street, Monte Clark Gallery Vancouver, Vancouver, Canada
2006 Portrait und Menschenbild, Art Cologne, Köln, Germany
2006 Several Exceptionally Good Recently Acquired Pictures XVIII, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2006 Tendenzen internationaler Fotografie, Städtische Galerie Delmenhorst, Delmenhorst, Germany
2005 Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
2005 Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH (solo)
2005 Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (solo)
2005 George Eastman House, Rochester, NY (solo)
2005 National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (solo)
2005 About Face: Photographic Portraits from the Collections, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2005 Portrait/Photography, Landesvertretung Niedersachsen, Berlin, Germany
2005 Take Two. Worlds and Views: Contemporary Art from the Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
2004 Seen at MOMA, Part II, Galerie Kicken, Berlin, Germany
2004 Transphotographiques 2004, Festival Transphotographiques, Lille, France
2004 Upright Female, Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA
2004 Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA (solo)
2004 Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)
2004 Inside Out: Portrait Photographs from the Permanent Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
2003 Musrara Museum, Jerusalem, Israel (solo)
2003 Zabriskie Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
2003 Cruel and Tender, Tate Modern, London, England
2003 Family Ties, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA
2001 Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)
2001 Zabriskie Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
2001 A City Seen, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
1997 Fraenkel Gallery San Francisco (solo)
1992 Pleasures and Terrors of Domestic Comfort, Museum of Modern Art (catalog) NY
1992 Eadweard Muybridge and Contemporary American Photography, The Addison Gallery of American Art (traveled) MA
1991 San Diego Art Museum (solo)
1990 Photography Until Now, Museum of Modern Art (catalog) NY
1989 Victoria and Albert Museum London
1989 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (solo)
1988 Museum of Modern Art (traveled, monograph) NY
1988 Museum of Fine Arts Boston (solo)
1987 Photographs from the Last Decade, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
1986 Variants, Museum of Modern Art NY
1984 Corcoran Gallery of Art Washington, DC
1982 The Contact Print, Friends of Photography (catalog) Carmel, CA
1980 Photography and Architecture, Fraenkel Gallery San Francisco
1976 Museum of Modern Art NY (solo)
1975 New Topographics, International Museum of Photography (catalog) George Eastman House, Rochester, NY
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