I am an artist, curator and writer who has lived and worked in Los Angeles and Milwaukee. Working in photography, video and performance, my work has broadly concerned ideas of masculinity in contemporary culture, from the US military to death metal to Houdini and escape magic to portraits of businessmen. The main work I have been doing recently is about what I call "Fake Iraq" – the military's large simulated Mideasts mostly located in the Mojave desert, both as a "fake" embedded photojournalist in one of these simulations and, soon, as a "real" embedded photojournalist in Afghanistan.
NICHOLAS GRIDER414-232-7980 | nicholas.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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| 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 (cur. Matthew Siegle) War and the Body, City University, London *(self-titled), 30, Seoul, South Korea Show of Force, Kunstlerhaus zu Weimar, Germany |
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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? (cur. Joella March), Orange County Center for Contemporary Art I AM I A KILLER (cur. Alyssa Gorelick), Sam Lee, Los Angeles *A Rush and a Push and the Land is Ours, CalArts (MFA thesis show) StayBite (Artists for Social Justice) (cur. Evelyn Serrano), CalArts NEXT/New Insight (cur. Suzanne Ghez), Art Chicago Sound and Space, Sea and Space Explorations (cur. Aaron Drake) |
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| 2007 | *How to Do Things with Men, CalArts You're So Beautiful, Hayworth Gallery, Los Angeles A Warning Shouldn't Be Pleasant (cur. Michael Smoler) West LA College |
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| 2006 | *Real Events Restaged Using Professional Actors, Museum of Wisconsin Art | |
| 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 Destination, Milwaukee Art Resource Center |
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GRANTS/FELLOWSHIPS |
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| 2006-2008 | CalArts Fellowship | |
| 2006-2008 | CalArts Dean's Reserve Grant (several times) | |
| 2007 | CalArts Interdisciplinary Project Grant | |
| 2004-2006 | UW-Milwaukee Teaching Assistantship/Fellowship | |
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, Los Angeles County Museum of Contemporary Art, 2009. "'Faces of the Fallen' and the Dematerialization of the American War Memorial," Visual Communication (Fall 2007) contributor, A Not So Simple Case for Torture, Onestar Press, eds. Nancy Buchanan, Sam Durant and Martha Rosler contributor, Chronometry, eds. Stephanie Chen and Joe Potts |
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CURATORIAL RECORD |
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The Landscape (the landscape!), location TBD, 2011 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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