Nicholas Grider is an artist and writer in his final year in the MFA art and writing programs at CalArts. He is currently at work on several artist book projects and a book of essays about the US military’s extensive use of role-playing and reenactment in training and recruitment.
BIOGRAPHY:
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Sea and Space, Los Angeles - Dec. 2008-Feb. 2009
A Rush and a Push and the Land is Ours, CalArts MFA Thesis Show - March 2008
It's All Fun and Games and Somebody Gets Hurt, CalArts - January 2008
How to Do Things With Men, CalArts - February 2007
Real Events Restaged Using Professional Actors, Museum of Wisconsin Art - February 2006
Symptomology, UW-Milwaukee Art History Gallery - March-April 2005
Gentlemen, Knapp Art House, Madison - January-February 2005
Surfers, Comet, Milwaukee - August-September 2004
Helpful Information, CalArts Library -- April 2004
Nature Scene, CalArts -- October 2003
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
New Insight, ArtChicago, April/May 2008
Sound and Space, Sea and Space, Los Angeles, February 2008
You're So Beautiful, Hayworth Gallery, Los Angeles, May-June 2007
A Warning Shouldn't Be Pleasant, West LA College, March-May 2007
Forward: Wisconsin Art Now, Charles Allis Art Museum, Milwaukee - October 2005
Wisconsin Biennial 2005, Anderson Arts Center, Kenosha - Summer 2005
Blind Spot, Moct- April/May 2005
"Untitled," Lime Gallery, CalArts -- April 2004
Destination #1, Rubin's Garage / MARN, Milwaukee - April 2003
Keep It Like a Secret, F Gallery, Milwaukee -- April/May 2002
SELECTED CURATORIAL PROJECTS
Helpful Information (under consideration at Brand Art Center, Los Angeles, for 2009)
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
EDITORIAL PROJECTS AND WRITING
Into the Field: Post-Digital Abstraction in Contemporary Photography (under consideration)
Photo/Media (quarterly photography magazine; first issue scheduled for Summer 2008)
"Art School and Intervention" essay for LACMA Words Without Pictures series, scheduled for July 2008
"'Faces of the Fallen' and the Dematerialization of the American War Memorial," Visual Communication, fall 2007
AWARDS AND GRANTS
Dean's Project Grant, CalArts Art School, 2006 and 2007
Interdisciplinary Project Grant, CalArts, 2007
(Writing Program) Thesis Project Grant, CalArts, 2007
Visiting Artist Coordinator position, CalArts, 2006-2007
CalArts Scholarship, 2006 and 2007
Full fellowship/tuition remission, UW-Milwaukee, 2004-2006
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