I am an artist, curator and writer who has lived and worked in Los Angeles and Milwaukee. Working in photography, installation and performance, my work is most concerned with failures of memory and history as well as representations of masculinity in contemporary culture. The work here explores those ideas as well as ideas of decoration and abstraction, and is now usually built into installations that weigh one body of work against another, placing them in conversation with each other.
NICHOLAS GRIDERnicholas.grider@gmail.com | www.nicholasgrider.com |
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EDUCATION |
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| MFA | 2008 | California Institute of the Arts Photo/Media and Writing programs |
| MA | 2006 | University of Wisconsin/Milwaukee Mass Communication |
| BA | 2000 | Cardinal Stritch University English/Writing |
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS/PERFORMANCE RECORD(solo exhibitions marked with an asterisk) |
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| 2012 | *Please Please Please, Armory Center for the Arts, Los Angeles *Burden, Portrait Society Gallery, Milwaukee *Interventions, Portrait Society Gallery, Milwaukee Interpersonal, Concord Space, Los Angeles (tbd) *Twelve Words, Bellyflop, Los Angeles (tbd) |
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| 2011 | Greater LA (Dan Graham), New York Art Los Angeles Contemporary (Dan Graham Booth) Collective Show (Elephant), Los Angeles Chain Letter, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Los Angeles Out of the Suitcase, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design |
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| 2010 | *Marines, a Soldier and a Sailor, Angels Gate Cultural Center, Los Angeles *Masculinity Cycle (Houdini), Dan Graham, Los Angeles The First Thing, Redling Fine Art, Los Angeles War and the Body, City University, London *(self-titled), 30, Husan, South Korea Show of Force, Kunstlerhaus zu Weimar, Germany *Masculinity Cycle (Houdini), Human Resources, Los Angeles |
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| 2009 | *Artifice & Sacrifice, Sea and Space Explorations, Los Angeles *Men in Suits, Portrait Society Gallery, Milwaukee Welcome to Fake Iraq, Angels Gate Cultural Center, Los Angeles |
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| 2008 | Just How Does a Patriot Act?, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art I AM I A KILLER, Sam Lee, Los Angeles *A Rush and a Push and the Land is Ours, CalArts (MFA thesis show) StayBite (Artists for Social Justice), CalArts NEXT/New Insight, Art Chicago Sound and Space, Sea and Space Explorations, Los Angeles Means to an End, Heaven Gallery, Chicago |
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| 2007 | *How to Do Things with Men, CalArts, Los Angeles You're So Beautiful, Hayworth Gallery, Los Angeles A Warning Shouldn't Be Pleasant, West LA College, Los Angeles |
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| 2006 | *Real Events Restaged Using Professional Actors, Museum of Wisconsin Art, West Bend, Wisconsin | |
| 2005 | *Symptomology, UW-Milwaukee Art History Gallery *Gentlemen, Knapp Art House, UW-Madison Forward: Wisconsin Art Now, Charles Allis Art Museum, Milwaukee Wisconsin Biennial, Kenosha, WI |
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| 2004 | Untitled, CalArts | |
| 2003 | *Making the Nature Scene, CalArts, Los Angeles Destination, Milwaukee Art Resource Center, Milwaukee |
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GRANTS/FELLOWSHIPS |
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| 2010 | Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant | |
| 2006-2008 | CalArts Fellowship | |
| 2006-2008 | CalArts Dean's Reserve Grant (several times) | |
| 2007 | CalArts Interdisciplinary Project Grant | |
BIBLIOGRAPHY |
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| "Artslant Rackroom: Nicholas Grider", April 2008. http://www.artslant.com/global/artists/rackroom/5575 "Saatchi Stuart Artist of the Week," March 2007. http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/blogon/2007/03/stuart_artist_of_the_week_1.php "Men in Costume", Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, January 2009. http://www.jsonline.com/entertainment/arts/37579779.html |
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PUBLICATIONS |
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contributor, Words Without Pictures, eds. Charlotte Cotton and Alex Klein, Aperture, 2010. contributor, The Open Daybook, ed. David P. Earle, Mark Batty Publishers 2010 contributor, A Not So Simple Case for Torture, Onestar Press, eds. Nancy Buchanan, Sam Durant and Martha Rosler 2009 contributor, Chronometry, eds. Stephanie Chen and Joe Potts 2008 "'Faces of the Fallen' and the Dematerialization of the American War Memorial," Visual Communication (Fall 2007) |
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CURATORIAL RECORD |
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Ocean of Noise, Human Resources, Los Angeles, Oct. 2010 100% Natural (Tommi Cahill and Roger Tilton), Elephant, Los Angeles, Oct./Nov. 2010 On Display, Gallery 533, Los Angeles, Oct/Nov. 2010 Queer Territories, Sea and Space, Los Angeles, April-May 2010 Welcome to Fake Iraq, Angels Gate Cultural Center Los Angeles, September 2009 (organized and am in the exhibit based on the group model developed in my MFA thesis show) Bodily Function, CalArts, November 2007 How to Do Things with Words, CalArts, October 2006 Face Time, Material Arts, Milwaukee, October 2004 There's No Place Like Home, Material Arts, July 2004 Indoor/Outdoor, CalArts, March 2004 Research and Development, Hide House, Milwaukee, January 2003 Keep it Like a Secret, F Gallery, Milwaukee, December 2002 |
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