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ArtSlant Profile Curator Writer	Nico Machida

> QUICK FACTS

LIVES IN:

Los Angeles, CA

WORKS IN:

Los Angeles, CA

SCHOOLS:

Stanford University, 2007, BA

> STATEMENT

Nico Machida is a freelance arts writer living in Los Angeles. He graduated from Stanford University, where he earned a B.A. in Art History, and wrote a thesis on the rapport between art and architecture in the contemporary museum.

> CURATED WITH THESE ARTISTS

Ando Hiroshige	Cindy Sherman
Lynn Lennon	Florence Volk
Bill Owens	Geoff Winningham
Giovanni Battista Piranesi

> CURATED AT THESE VENUES

Dallas Museum of Art

> ARTICLES, PICKS AND REVIEWS

Apr, 2009	Significant Architecture in the Dallas Arts District
Apr, 2009	A Young British Artist in Dallas
Apr, 2009	Life in Space: Staging Identity
Jul, 2008	Gillian Wearing
Jul, 2008	The Claremont Museum of Art
Jul, 2008	Objects for Everyone I Have Ever Known
Jun, 2008	Living Flowers
Jun, 2008	Lawrence Weiner
Jun, 2008	Lautner House Tours
May, 2008	A Look at Rudofsky
May, 2008	Koumoundouros: New Sculpture
May, 2008	Daly Street Lofts
May, 2008	Interview with Ruben Ochoa
Apr, 2008	Opie's Appeal
Apr, 2008	Looking at Chaubin
Apr, 2008	Restaging Kaprow: Apr 25-27
Mar, 2008	A Look at Inside Architecture
Mar, 2008	A Look at Mitzi Pederson
Mar, 2008	Not to be missed: Richard Serra and Lynne Cooke
Feb, 2008	A Look at Lauren Bon
Feb, 2008	A Look at Michael Asher
Feb, 2008	Women in the City
Jan, 2008	A Look at Walead Beshty
Jan, 2008	A Look at Katie Pratt
Jan, 2008	A Look at Julius Shulman
Dec, 2007	A Look at Slater Bradley
Dec, 2007	A Look at Sue de Beer
Nov, 2007	Discipline and Flourish
Nov, 2007	Degrees of Engagement
Nov, 2007	Kusama Sculpture
Oct, 2007	Gallery: Home
Oct, 2007	Color and Lack Thereof, on the Stage of Art History
Oct, 2007	Beehive Building by Eric Owen Moss
Sep, 2007	Facial Texts: Mostly Legible, Riveting All
Sep, 2007	The Museum of Television and Radio
Sep, 2007	Rooms and Forests, Inhabited by Affect Alone
Aug, 2007	Meditations on a Post-Medium World by Nico Machida
Jul, 2007	Helm's Bakery Fountain by Nico Machida
Apr, 2008	Sleep Dealer
Apr, 2008	A Look at Marcel Dzama
Apr, 2008	A Look at Tomas Saraceno
Apr, 2008	Chris Burden at BCAM
Apr, 2008	A Look at Marc Handelman
Apr, 2008	A Look at Justin Beal
Apr, 2008	Rawhide
Apr, 2008	A Look at Ashok Sukumaran
Apr, 2008	A Look at Henry Darger
Mar, 2008	Interview with Justin Francavilla
Mar, 2008	Funny Games
Mar, 2008	A Look at Glen Fogel
Mar, 2008	A Look at Peter Coffin
Mar, 2008	The Bendix Sign
Mar, 2008	A Look at Michel François
Mar, 2008	Allan Kaprow: At the Opening
Mar, 2008	Interview with Nicholas Grider
Mar, 2008	901 Abbot Kinney Blvd.
Mar, 2008	A Look at Three From Britain
Mar, 2008	A Look at Scott Short
Mar, 2008	A Look at Sanrio
Mar, 2008	A Look at the Utagawa School
Mar, 2008	A Look at Edo Japan
Mar, 2008	A Look at The Evolution Store
Mar, 2008	Now at Honey Space
Mar, 2008	Origin and Hélio Oiticica
Mar, 2008	Portraits and Mass Culture
Mar, 2008	Jeurgen Teller's Ukraine
Mar, 2008	A Look at Rashid Johnson
Mar, 2008	A Look at Muzi Quawson
Mar, 2008	Chinatown is Theater
Mar, 2008	A Look at Raffi Kalenderian
Mar, 2008	A Look at Paul Lee
Mar, 2008	A Look at Andy Warhol
Mar, 2008	A Look at Robert Gober
Mar, 2008	A Look at Courbet
Mar, 2008	A Look at Betalevel
Mar, 2008	Beauty’s Dark Side
Mar, 2008	All About The Stripes
Feb, 2008	The Museum of Jusrassic Technology
Feb, 2008	A Look at Guy Dill
Feb, 2008	Larry Bell: Modern Mystic
Feb, 2008	A Look at Honeyspace Art Gallery
Feb, 2008	A Look at Manisha Parekh
Feb, 2008	A Look at Xia Caomin, Qin Feng, Hu Renyi, Ai Wei Wei, & Han Xin
Feb, 2008	The Texas Firehouse
Feb, 2008	A Look at Georg Gatsas
Feb, 2008	A Look at Ramak Fazel
Feb, 2008	Exoticism at The Museum at FIT
Feb, 2008	A Look at Horst P. Horst
Feb, 2008	A Look at Stefan Sagmeister
Feb, 2008	A Different Look at Phoenix
Feb, 2008	A Look at Diane Landry
Feb, 2008	The Science of Study
Feb, 2008	New Museum Store
Feb, 2008	A Look at Cristina Lei Rodriguez
Feb, 2008	A Look at Amanda Ross-Ho and Kirsten Stoltmann
Feb, 2008	Industry Café and Jazz
Feb, 2008	An Eerie Take on Leisure
Feb, 2008	Sublime Slang
Jan, 2008	Virginia Katz at Jancar Gallery, Getting Lost in a World of Nuances
Jan, 2008	The Crepe Guy
Jan, 2008	A Look at Rackstraw Downes
Jan, 2008	A Look at Hans Haacke
Jan, 2008	To Note
Jan, 2008	Art Street War
Jan, 2008	A Look at The Shifo Village
Jan, 2008	A Look at Cui Fei
Jan, 2008	Intervention
Jan, 2008	In Between
Jan, 2008	A Stop at Bemelmans Bar
Jan, 2008	A Look at Damien Hirst and the Lever House
Jan, 2008	A Look at the Society of Illustrators
Jan, 2008	Keeping up with James Turrell
Jan, 2008	A Look at Neil Farber
Jan, 2008	A Look at Tony Delap
Jan, 2008	Gilded Sofas
Jan, 2008	No Need for Interpretation
Jan, 2008	Authentic Tabloid Fictions
Jan, 2008	Sundays New York
Jan, 2008	A Look at Jonah Groeneboer
Jan, 2008	A Look at Ryan Mrozowski
Dec, 2007	A Look at the Alcove Gallery
Dec, 2007	A Look at Duke Riley
Jan, 2008	A Look at Adrian Paci
Dec, 2007	Words, Words, Words
Dec, 2007	Between Painting and Writing
Dec, 2007	As Far as the Eye Can See
Dec, 2007	If You Couldn't Make Miami...
Dec, 2007	An Elephant in the Gallery
Dec, 2007	Dreaming the Rural Cityscape
Dec, 2007	A Look at Culver Studios
Dec, 2007	A Look at Heather Rowe
Dec, 2007	A Look at Do Ho Suh
Dec, 2007	A Handmade Holiday
Dec, 2007	No White Cube in Chinatown
Dec, 2007	Disorderly Self-Portrait
Dec, 2007	Blood Pact
Nov, 2007	A Look at the Salon Oblique
Nov, 2007	A Look at Kim Dingle
Nov, 2007	Into The Glide Of Surfing
Nov, 2007	A Look at Lawrence Weiner
Nov, 2007	A Streetside Chris Lampoli
Nov, 2007	A Look at the Absolute
Nov, 2007	The COOL School
Nov, 2007	A Look at Bevan
Nov, 2007	A Look at Lassry
Nov, 2007	Behind that wall is Chelsea
Nov, 2007	Role Play / Break Down
Nov, 2007	Signing “I”
Nov, 2007	Full Service Leasing
Nov, 2007	Life Drawing
Nov, 2007	Sad Sack in a Landscape
Nov, 2007	Pansies at the Beverly Wilshire
Nov, 2007	Grown-up Vulnerability
Nov, 2007	Minimalist Brain Tease
Nov, 2007	BQE Performance
Nov, 2007	Oskar’s Closet
Nov, 2007	Bears Not Babies!
Oct, 2007	A Little Bit of Flavor
Oct, 2007	Citadel of Fancy
Oct, 2007	Profiles in Black and White
Oct, 2007	A Little Bit of Flavor
Oct, 2007	Alive and Dead
Oct, 2007	Text Working
Oct, 2007	Seated Heat Cushions and Much More
Oct, 2007	A Duchampian Sanford and Son
Oct, 2007	All The News That's Fit to Print
Oct, 2007	A Little Bit of Flavor
Oct, 2007	A Found Photograph
Oct, 2007	Brad Spence
Oct, 2007	A Little Bit of Flavor
Oct, 2007	Kamau Patton at Machine Project
Oct, 2007	Dash Snow / Sash Dnow
Oct, 2007	A Little Bit of Flavor
Oct, 2007	Wherever the Art Goes, the Market Will Follow
Oct, 2007	That Which Cannot Be Remembered
Oct, 2007	A Little Bit of Flavor
Oct, 2007	A Childhood of Proportion
Oct, 2007	Old Word/New Modernism
Sep, 2007	Foster’s Donuts
Sep, 2007	My Support Group Told Me to Go to Hell
Sep, 2007	The Day The Earth Began to Spin Faster
Sep, 2007	Rice and Beans
Sep, 2007	Balsa Dreams
Sep, 2007	Fighting Fowl
Sep, 2007	Watts Towers
Sep, 2007	Wattstax Revisited
Sep, 2007	Art at Chung King
Sep, 2007	Hand Wash Only
Sep, 2007	A Heavy Dose of Tough Love
Sep, 2007	Preaching to the Choir but Still Effective
Sep, 2007	NO SHORT STAYS! by Chris Bors
Sep, 2007	RAW RAW Gallery by Charlie Schultz
Sep, 2007	The Emerging Asian Artists by Charlie Schultz
Sep, 2007	A Writer's Hand; A Painter's Touch by Charlie Schultz
Sep, 2007	Big Box Triumph (Shoe Pavilion) by Nicholas Grider
Sep, 2007	Minimalism, Theatricality and You by Nicholas Grider
Sep, 2007	A Place for Everything and Everything in its Place
Sep, 2007	There Simply for the Grace by Hong-An Truong
Sep, 2007	If Gesture Was the Answer by Hong-An Truong
Aug, 2007	Discovering Downtown by Nancy Lupo
Sep, 2007	Crossroads by Hong-An Truong
Aug, 2007	Nevelson Here & Now by Nancy Lupo
Aug, 2007	Dying in All Directions by Nancy Lupo
Aug, 2007	Up Close and Personal by Chris Bors
Aug, 2007	Don't You Fuget About Me by Chris Bors
Aug, 2007	Visions of a More Perfect Place by Nico Machida
Jul, 2007	Martin Creed's Small Things by Charlie Schultz
Jul, 2007	A Little Laughter Goes a Long Way by Charlie Schultz
Jul, 2007	School Is in For Summer by Charlie Schultz
Jul, 2007	The Times They Have A Changed by Nico Machida
Jul, 2007	The Intellectual Life of Lines by Nico Machida
Jul, 2007	A Conversation with Servane Mary
Jul, 2007	Chelsea Piers by Christine Hou
Jul, 2007	India Sweets & Spices by Nicholas Grider
Jul, 2007	The Authority of Architecture by Nicholas Grider
Jul, 2007	What Does a Portrait Do? by Nicholas Grider
Jul, 2007	Instead of Painting by Nicholas Grider
Jul, 2007	A Modern Archetype by Christine Hou
Jul, 2007	Lines Covering a Wall, Straight and Not Straight, Touching and Not Touching: LeWitt’s Aesthetic Blueprint by Christine Hou