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BIOGRAPHY

Nic Nicosia

1951 Born, Dallas, Texas

Currently lives and works in Santa Fe, NM

Education

1974 B.A. Radio, TV, Film, University of North Texas

Awards

1991 MAAA/NEA Fellowships in Photography

1991 Awards in the Visual Arts, AVA II (not funded)

1984 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation

Solo Exhibitions            Group Exhibitions

2008

Nic Nicosia, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, Nebraska

Nic Nicosia: Drawing, James Kelly Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM

2007

Nic Nicosia: Unitled 2006, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX

2006

Nic Nicosia: Making Pictures, The Dallas Contemporary Legend Award, Dallas, TX

2005

9.5 Hours to SaFe, The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Forth Worth, Texas

Untitled Landscapes, James Kelly Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM

Nic Nicosia, 9.5 Hours to SaFe, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, NE

365 Real Live Pictures and More, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX

9.5 Hours to SaFe, Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, TN

2004

Nic Nicosia, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY

Nic Nicosia: Untitled 2002, Jan Weiner Gallery, Kansas City, MO

2003

Nic Nicosia, Dunn and Brown and Contemporary, Dallas, TX

Nic Nicosia, SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM

Nic Nicosia, CASA, Centro de Arte de Salamanca, Spain

2002

Nic Nicosia: Fact or Fiction?, Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, KS

2000

Nic Nicosia: Circles and Squares, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX

1999

Nic Nicosia: Real Pictures 1979 - 1999, organized by Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX; traveled to El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, TX; Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX; Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX; Texas Fine Arts Association, Austin, TX

1998

Nic Nicosia, Middletown Video, Steven Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1997

Acts and Sex Acts, Middletown Video, Gerald Peters Gallery, Dallas, TX

1996

Nic Nicosia, Richard Foncke Gallery, Gent, Belgium

1994

Richard Foncke Gallery, Ghent Belgium, P.P.O.W., New York, NY

1993

Love + Lust, Raab Gallery, London, England, Texas Gallery, Houston, TX,

Linda Cathcart Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

Nic Nicosia, Untitled, Gerald Peters Gallery, Dallas, TX

1992

Texas Gallery, Houston, TX

Love + Lust, Richard Foncke Gallery, Gent, Belgium

1991

A Progression of Photographs, University of North Texas Art Gallery, Denton, TX

Love + Lust, Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, NY, Linda Cathcart Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

1990

New Photographs: Real Pictures, Linda Cathcart Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

New Work, Facchetti Gallery, New York, NY

1989

Real Pictures, Dart Gallery, Chicago, IL, Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, TX

1988

Real Pictures, Texas Gallery, Houston, TX, Bruno Facchetti Gallery, New York, NY

1987

Life as we know it, Albert Totah Gallery, New York, NY, Barry Whistler Gallery,

Dallas, TX, University Art Galleries, Wright State University, Dayton, OH

Photographs, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA

Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, HI

1986

Concentrations 13 - Nic Nicosia, The Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX

Recent Photographs, Wellesley Jewitt Museum, Wellesley College, Boston, MA

The Cast, Texas Gallery, Houston, TX, Maurice Keitlman Gallery, Brussels, Belgium

Film in the cities, St. Paul, MN

1985

Nic Nicosia’s Realties, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI

The Cast, Marcus Pfeifer Gallery, New York, NY

New Photographs - Nic Nicosia, Dart Gallery, Chicago, IL

1984

Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH

Near (modern) Disasters, Delahunty Gallery, New York, NY

Domestic Dramas/Near (modern) Disasters, Jane Corkin Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

1982

Artists Space, New York, NY

Domestic Dramas, Delahunty Gallery, Dallas, TX

Group Exhibitions            Solo Exhibitions

2008

Something New, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX

2006

Crossroads, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas

Contemporary Art:1980-Present, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska

Suspension, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX

Still Moving: Selected Video by Photographers, Richard L. Nelson Gallery & Fine Art Collection, University of California, Davis, CA

Long Exposures, LA County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA

2005

Land, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX

A Summer Group, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY

2004

5th Anniversary Exhibition, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX

Perspectives@25: A Quarter Century of New Art in Houston, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX

2003

Flip, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX

Photo Album, Bradbury Gallery, Jonesboro, Arkansas

2002

The Mind is a Horse, Bloomberg SPACE, London, Enlgand

Next, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX

Twenty-fifth Anniversary Exhibition, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA

2001

Full Frontal, Jan Weiner Gallery, Kansas City, MO

Beau Monde: Toward a Redeemed Cosmopolitanism, SITE Santa Fe’s Fourth International Biennial Exhibition, Santa Fe, NM

2000

2000 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

Natural Deceits, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX

Three Video Works, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

Crossing State Lines, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX

1999

Wired for Living, The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, TX

1998

Texas Wired, The Contemporary Art Center of Fort Worth, TX

Projected Allegories, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX

7th New York Video Festival, Walter Reade Theater, New York, NY

Union/Reunion, Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA

1997

Link, Gerald Peters Gallery, Dallas, TX

1996

Telling Stories, Jacksonville Art Museum, Jacksonville, FL

1995

Fotographie als Bild, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Germany

1994

Family Lives, Nic Nicosia, Tina Barney, Catherine Wagner, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

1993

Here's Looking at Me, Elac, Centre D'Echanges de Perrache, Lyon, France

Vivid, Raab Galerie, Berlin, Germany (catalog)

Texas/Between Two Worlds, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, TX (catalog)

1992

Documenta IX, Kunstlerische Leitung,Kassel, Germany

Kunst Nu, Vereniging voor het museum van hedendaagse kunst te Gent, Gent, Belguim

No Man's Land, Richard Foncke Gallery, Ghent, Belgium

1991

Pleasures and Terrors of Domestic Comfort, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

Past/Present: Photographs from the Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX

1990

Reinvention Reality, Sarah Campbell Blaffer Gallery, University of Hosuton, Houston, TX

Family Stories, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY

1989

Staged Documents, Tina Barney and Nic Nicosia, SF Camberagwork, San Francisco, CA

Nature and Culture: Conflict and Reconciliation in Recent Photography, The Friends of Photography, San Francisco, CA

Konstruiete Fotografie, Kunstverein Museum, Munich, Germany (catalog)

1988

Photographic Truth, Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT

Texas, Groninger Museu, The Netherlands

Fabrications, Sert Gallery, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Evocative Presence, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX

Vision/Television, at JIPAM, Montpellier, France

1987

Arrangements for the Camera: A View of Contemporary Photography, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD

Torino Fotografia 87, Biennial Inernational, Torino, Italy

Emerging Artists: 1978-1986, Selections from the Exxon Series, Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY

Contemporary Photographic Portraiture, E.L.A.C., Lyon, France

1986

Before the Camera, Burden Gallery, New York, NY

Photographic Fictions, Whitney Museum of American Art, Fairfield County,

Stanford, CT

Imagine, Contemporary Arts Museum of Quebec, Canada

1984

Anxious Interiors, Laguna Beach Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, CA

New Images in Photography, Visual Arts Museum, New York, NY

Visions of Childhood: A Contemporary Iconography, Whitney Museum of American Art, Downtown Branch, New York, NY (catalog)

Modern Masters, 8 Interview Photographers, Delahunty Gallery, Dallas, TX

Painting and Sculpture Today 1984, Indianapolis Museum of art, Indianapolis, IN (catalog)

Decade of New Art, Artists Space, New York, NY (catalog)

1983

Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

The New Orleans Triennial, New Orleans Museum of Art new Orleans, LA (catalog)

Image Fabrique, Musee National D'Artes Modern, Center National D'Arte et de Culture George Pompidou, Paris, France (catalog)

Southern Fictions, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX (catalog)

New Perspectives in American Art: 1983 Exxon National Exhibition, The Solomon R. Gugenheim Museum, New York, NY (catalog)

1982

Hallwalls and C.E.P.A. Gallery, Buffalo, Ny

Henrich, Nicosia, Williams, Texas Gallery, Houston, TX

Beyond Photography: The Fabricated Image, Delhunty Gallery, New York, NY

Space Framed I, Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, MA

1981

Texas Photo Sampler, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, D.C.

The New Photography, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX (catalog)

Staged Shots, Delahunty Gallery, Dallas, TX

Museum Collections

Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto

The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI

Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX

The Gernshiem Collection, University of Texas, Austin, TX

Groninger Museum, Nederland, The Netherlands

High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA

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

New Orleans Museum, New Orleans, LA

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA

Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA

Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, NE

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

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