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Nic Nicosia (American, 1951)
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Nic Nicosia
Untitled #11 2007
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Nic Nicosia
Untitled #11 2007
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Nic Nicosia
Untitled #12 2007
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Nic Nicosia
Untitled #13 2007
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Nic Nicosia
Untitled #14 2007
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Nic Nicosia
Untitled #15 2007
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Biography |
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1951 |
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Born in Dallas, TX |
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1974 |
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B.A.(Radio, TV, Film), University of North Texas Denton, TX |
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1984 |
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Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation |
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1991 |
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MAAA/NEA Fellowships in Photography |
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1991 |
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Awards in the Visual Arts, AVA 11 (not funded) |
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Currently lives and works in Santa Fe, NM |
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Collections Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
The Gernshiem Collection, University of Texas, Austin, TX
Groninger Museum, Nederland, The Netherlands
Groninger Museum, Nederland, The Netherlands
Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN
La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwakee, WI
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicgo, IL
Museum of Contemporary Art, Montreal, Quebec
Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Gent, Belgium
Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Gent, Belgium
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, KA
University of Virginia Bayly Museum, Charlottesville, VI
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, NE
Santa Barbara Museum of Art |
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Exhibitions |
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2008 |
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Drawing, James Kelly Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM (solo)
Drawing, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE (solo) |
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2007 |
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Untitled 2006, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX (solo) |
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2006 |
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Nic Nicosia: Making Pictures, The Dallas Contemporary Legend Award, Dallas, TX
Crossroads, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
Contemporary Art:1980-Present, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska
Long Exposures: LA County Museum of Art, CA.
Still Moving: Selected Video by Photographers, Richard L. Nelson Gallery & Fine Art Collection, Univ. of California, Davis, CA. |
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2005 |
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9.5 Hours to SaFe, The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Forth Worth, Texas -solo
New Address 616-1/2 Canyon Road (In Canyon Alley), James Kelly Contemporary, Santa Fe, New Mexico -solo
Nic Nicosia, 9.5 Hours to SaFe, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, NE -solo
5th Anniversary Exhibition, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX
Perspectives@25: A Quarter Century of New Art in Houston, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX |
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2004 |
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Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY -solo
5th Anniversary Exhibition, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX
Ambiguous Beauty: Photography from the Collection, El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, TX |
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2003 |
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Dunn and Brown and Contemporary, Dallas, TX -solo
SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM -solo
CASA, Centro de Arte de Salamanca, Spain -solo
Flip, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX
Photo Album, Bradbury Gallery, Jonesboro, Arkansas |
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2002 |
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Fact or Fiction?, Ulrich Museum of Art. Wichita, KS -solo
The Mind is a Horse, Bloomberg SPACE, London, Enlgand
Next, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX |
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2002 |
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Twenty-fifth Anniversary Exhibition, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA |
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2001 |
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Beau Monde: Toward a Redeemed Cosmopolitanism, SITE Santa Fe 2001 Biennial,Santa Fe, NM
Video Jam, Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Lake Worth, FL
Panic, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY
Domestic Disturbance, Salina Art Center, Salina, KS |
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2000 |
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Nic Nicosia: Circles and Squares, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX -solo
2000 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
The Henry Collects: Video, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
Natural Deceits, Modern Art Museum of Ft. Worth, Ft. Worth, TX
The Whitney Biennale, Whitney Museum of Contemporary Art New York, NY
The Henry Collects: Video, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington Seattle, WA
Movies: 1997-1999, P.P.O.W New York, NY |
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1999 |
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Nic Nicosia, Real Pictures 1979-1999, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX -solo
True West, P.P.O.W New York, NY |
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1998 |
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Middletown and Stills from Middletown, Stephen Wirtz Gallery San Francisco, CA -solo
Texas Wired, The Contemporary Art Center Ft. Worth, Texas
Union/Reunion, Nexus Contemporary Art Center Atlanta, GA |
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1997 |
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Acts and Sex Acts, Middletown Video, Gerald Peters Gallery, Dallas, TX -solo
Link, Gerald Peteers Gallery Dallas, TX |
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1996 |
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Act Series, Richard Fonke Gallery Ghent, Belguim -solo
Telling Stories, Jacksonville Art Museum Jackson, FL |
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1995 |
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Visions of Hope and Despair, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, IL
Fotographie als Bild, Kunstverein Braunschweig Germany |
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1994 |
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Richard Foncke Gallery, Ghent Belgium, P.P.O.W., New York, NY -solo |
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1993 |
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Love + Lust, Raab Gallery, London, England, Texas Gallery, Houston, TX, -solo
Vivid, Raab Gallery Berlin, Germany; London, England; Milan, Italy
Linda Cathcart Gallery, Santa Monica, CA -solo
Nic Nicosia, Untitled, Gerald Peters Gallery, Dallas, TX -solo |
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1992 |
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Texas Gallery Houston, TX -solo
Love + Lust, Richard Foncke Gallery, Gent, Belgium -solo |
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1991 |
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Love + Lust, Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, NY, Linda Cathcart Gallery, Santa Monica, CA -solo |
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1991 |
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Pleasures and Terrors of Domestic Comfort, Museum of Modern Art New York, NY |
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1991 |
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Past/Present: Photographs from the Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, TX |
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1977 |
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Acts and Sex Acts, Gerald Peters Gallery Dallas, TX
Acts and Sex Acts, P.P.O.W New York, NY |
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Literature |
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2008 |
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Bennett, Benjamin. Secret Theses on Literature and Politics.” artUS, Spring 2008, pg.34-35. |
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2008 |
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Sardy, Marin. "shifting perspectives." Santa Fean, June/July 2008, pg. |
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2005 |
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Fischer, Zane. “Fake Magical Irreality.” Santa Fe Reporter, Feb. 2-8, |
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2004 |
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Hackman, Kate. “Seething in Suburbia,” The Kansas City Star, June 4: 20. |
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2004 |
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Jankauskas, Jennifer. “Between Fantasy and Reality: An Interview with Nic Nicosia,” Fall: 54-55. |
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2003 |
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Thomson Randall, Teri. “Virtually Reality,” Pasatiempo, January 2003. |
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2002 |
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Kent, Sarah. “The Mind is a Horse,” Time Out London, September 18. |
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2002 |
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Searle, Adrian. “The Mind Is a Horse,” The Guardian, September 7: 22. |
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2001 |
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Thorson, Alice. “Challenging Beauty,” Jan Wiener Gallery, April 13. |
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2001 |
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Van Ryzin, Jeanne Claire. “Like Real Life only different.” Austin American-Statesman, January 11: 26. |
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2001 |
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Weigand, Susan. Photography and the Human: Review, Art, April. |
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2000 |
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Ennis, Michael. “Northern Exposure,” Texas Monthly, February: 130. |
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2000 |
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“Real Pictures on Display at Austin Museum of Art,” Westlake Picayun, December 7: D 7. |
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2000 |
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Van Ryzin, Jeanne Claire. “In Nicosia’s Photographs, Suburbs are a Twisted Place,” Austin American Statesman, December 9: D 1, D 8. |
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2000 |
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Willcott, Ben. “Nic Nicosia: Real Pictures,”The Austin Chronicle, December 29: 60. |
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2000 |
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Loos, Ted. The Art of Fashion: Nicosia’s Suburban Noirs, Incircle entree, Fall. |
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2000 |
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Tyson, Janet. Nic Nicosia Real Picture 1979-1999 Review, Artl!es, Summer. |
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2000 |
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McCabe, Bret. Taking Pictures, The Met, July. |
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1999 |
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Kalil, Susie. “The Burbs,” Houston Press, November 1999. |
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1999 |
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Kutner, Janet. “Nicosia Offers an Unsettling Look at the Everyday,” The Dallas Morning News, November 1999. |
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