NIC NICOSIA

 

 

BORN:

 

1951

Dallas, TX

 

 

EDUCATION:    

 

1974

BA, University of North Texas, Denton, TX

                  

 

AWARDS:

 

1984

Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation

1991

MAAA/NEA Fellowships in Photography

 

Awards in the Visual Arts, AVA 11

 

 

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

 

2003

Dunn and Brown and Contemporary, Dallas, TX

 

SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM

 

CASA, Centro de Arte de Salamanca, Spain

2002

Fact or Fiction?, Ulrich Museum of Art. Wichita, KS

2000

Movies 1997-1999, P.P.O.W., New York, NY

 

Circles and Squares, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX

1999-2000

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

Middletown Video, Steven Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1997

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

 

Acts and Sex Acts, Zolla /Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL

 

Acts and Sex Acts, P.P.O.W., New York, NY

 

Life, 5501 Columbia Art Center, Dallas, TX

1996

Richard Foncke Gallery, Gent, Belgium

1994

Richard Foncke Gallery, Gent, Belgium

 

P.P.O.W, New York, NY

1993

Love + Lust, Raab Gallery, London, U.K.

 

Texas Gallery, Houston, TX

 

Linda Cathcart Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

 

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

 

Love + Lust, 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

 

Real Pictures, Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, TX

1988

Real Pictures, Texas Gallery, Houston, TX

 

Real Pictures, Bruno Facchetti Gallery, New York, NY

1987

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

 

Life as we know it, Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, TX

 

Photographs, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA

 

Life as we know it, University Art  Galleries, Wright State University, Dayton, OH

 

Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, HI

1986

Concentrations 13 - Nic Nicosia, 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 Realities, 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

                 

                   

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

 

2003

Flip, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX

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

Beau Monde: Toward a Redeemed Cosmopolitanism, SITE Santa Fe 2001 Biennial,

Santa Fe, NM

 

Video Jam, Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Lake Worth, FL

 

Panic, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY

 

Domestic Disturbance, Salina Art Center, Salina, KS

2000

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

 

The Henry Collects: Video, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA

 

Natural Deceits, Modern Art Museum of Ft. Worth, Ft. Worth, TX

1999

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

1998

Texas Wired, The Contemporary Art Center of Ft. Worth, Ft. 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, Braunschweig, Germany

1994

Family Lives: Nic Nicosia, Tina Barney, Catherine Wagner, Corcoran Gallery of Art,

Washington, DC

1993

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

 

Vivid, Raab Galerie, Berlin, Germany (traveled)

 

Texas/ between Two Worlds, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, TX (traveled)

1992

Documenta IX, Kunstlerische Leitung, Kassel, Germany

 

Kunst Nu, Vereniging voor het Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Gent, Belgium

 

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

1991

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

 

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

1990

Reinvention Reality, Sarah Campbell Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, 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 Camerawork, 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 (traveled)

1988

Photographic Truth, Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT

 

Texas, Groninger Museum, Groningen, The Netherlands