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NICKI GREEN
SAN FRANCISCO, CA
BORN 1986, BOSTON, MA
EDUCATION:
2016-2018 University of California, Berkeley. Berkeley, CA.
MFA Art Practice
2007-2009 San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
BFA Sculpture
2005-2007 Eugene Lang College, Parsons School of Design (The New School), New York, NY
Courses completed in psychology & fine arts, emphasis in sculpture
AWARDS/GRANTS/RESIDENCIES:
2022 Award Winner, Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation
2022 Center for Contemporary Ceramics, California State University, Long Beach, Resident Artist
2022 Grantee, Nancy Graves Foundation
2021 Burke Prize Finalist, Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY
2021-2022 Visiting Artist Lecturer, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont CA
2019 San Francisco Arts Commission Individual Artist Commission
2019 Residency- Center for Contemporary Ceramics. California State University, Long Beach
2019 John Michael Kohler Arts/Industry Residency
2018 Headlands Center for the Arts fellowship
2018 UC Berkeley Eisner Award
2017 Residency- Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts. Newcastle, ME
2017 UC Berkeley Sam Francis Travel Grant
2016 Center for Cultural Innovation Quick Grant
2015 San Francisco Arts Commission Individual Artist Commission
2014 Center for Cultural Innovation Quick Grant
2013 Museum of Transgender Hirstory and Art Awards: Unrecognized Artist of the Year: Hermit
2009 Schmidt Community Arts Fellowship. San Francisco, CA
SOLO EXHIBITION HISTORY:
2024 Nicki Green: Firmament. The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA
2024 Nicki Green: Eye of the Fountain. CULT Aimee Friberg, San Francisco, CA
2022 Manifesto of Fragility - A World of Endless Promise, La Biennale de Lyon. Museé Guimet, Lyon FR
2020 Between Washing and Unwithering, LaiSun Keane, Boston, MA
2020 Pillars of Earth. Guerrero Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2019 Splitting/Unifying. Et Al Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2016 Breaking Dishes at Gene Compton’s. GLBT History Museum, San Francisco, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITION HISTORY:
2024
Histórias LGBTQIA+, Museu de Arte de São Paulo, São Paulo BR
Sentia Sexualis. ICA LA, Los Angeles CA
Objects USA 2024. R & Company, New York NY
All This Soft Wild Buzzing. The Wattis Institute, San Francisco CA
The Aesthetics of Everyday Objects: The Cup, ATLA Projects, Los Angeles CA
Mad Dash: 50 Years of Arts/Industry, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan WI
New Worlds: Women to Watch 2024, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC
2023
Discreet Histories, Anat Ebgi Gallery, Los Angeles CA
Making In-Between: Queer Clay, American Museum of Ceramics Art, Pomona CA
Pollen on a West Wind, Jason Jacques Gallery, New York NY
New Suns: Women to Watch, CCA Gallery, San Francisco CA
Barro Barrio, Guerrero Gallery, Los Angeles CA
2022
Nightmare Bathroom, Del Vaz Projects, Santa Monica CA
Manifesto of Fragility: The Many Lives and Deaths of Louise Brunet, La Biennale de Lyon. Museum of Contemporary Art, Lyon, Lyon FR
On Fire: Contemporary Trailblazers - 77th Scripps Annual. Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, Claremont CA
Physics & Fiction. CULT Aimee Friberg Exhibitions, San Francisco CA
2021
Les Flammes: L’Age de la Céramique. Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris FR
Contemporary Clay 2021. Bardo Arts Center, Western Carolina University Fine Art Museum, Cullowhee NC
New Time: Art and Feminisms in the 21st Century. Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley CA
2020
Omniscient: Queer Documentation in an Image Culture. Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, New York NY
The Burdens of History. Visual Arts Center, Richmond VA
The Body, The Object, The Other (Ceramics Biennial). Craft Contemporary, Los Angeles CA
2019
Don’t Touch My Circles. Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco CA
The Ordinary Instant. Headlands Center for the Arts, Marin CA
Queer California. Oakland Museum of California, Oakland CA
Transecologies. Hubbell Gallery, San Francisco CA
2018
Consciousness Razing: The Stonewall Re-Memorialization Project. New Museum, NY
UnderSTOOD. Rockelmann & Partner Gallery. Berlin, DE
Bay Area Now 8. Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Seven Places of the Mind. Fused Space, San Francisco, CA
Way Bay 2. Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. Berkeley, CA
Reading Room: The Feminist Art of Self Help. Root Division. San Francisco, CA
Queer Biennial: What If Utopia. Navel Gallery. Los Angeles CA
MOTHA presents: The Veil of Veronica. Handwerker Gallery. Ithaca, NY
The 48th Annual University of California, Berkeley MFA Graduate Exhibition. Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. Berkeley, CA
Way Bay. Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. Berkeley, CA
The Karaite Canon: Manuscripts and Ritual Objects from Cairo. The Magnes Collection, Berkeley, CA
2017
Sabbath: Dorothy Saxe Invitational. The Contemporary Jewish Museum. San Francisco, CA
OUT/LOOK and the Birth of the Queer. GLBT History Museum. San Francisco, CA
Fermenting Feminism. Broken Dimanche Press. Berlin, DE
Intermediaries, Worth Ryder Gallery. Berkeley, CA
2016
Compton’s Cafeteria Riots 50th Anniversary Commemorative Mug Release. GLBT History Museum. San Francisco, CA
ISO Queer Gods, Root Division. San Francisco, CA
Chain Reaction 12, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery. San Francisco, CA
James Gobel :: Nicki Green :: Ariel Goldberg, 2nd Floor Projects. San Francisco, CA
(Signal). Smack Mellon. Brooklyn, NY
2015
Hello, World! Artspace New Haven. New Haven, CT
Radical Functions. SMAart Gallery. San Francisco, CA
Posture Magazine. City Bird Gallery. New York, NY
Five Pins Project. San Francisco, CA
I AM, Waterloo Arts. Cleveland, OH
Radical Functions. Dirt Palace. Providence, RI
MOTHA presents: Transgender Hirstory in 99 Objects: Legends and Mythologies. ONE gay and lesbian archives, Los Angeles, CA
2014
Trans.ient. Various locations. Los Angeles, CA
Collect. Berkeley Art Center. Berkeley, CA
Soapbox. Berkeley Art Center. Berkeley, CA
Queer & Now. The Lexington Club, San Francisco, CA
2013
Museum of Transgender Hirstory and Art: Salon. Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Museum of Transgender Hirstory and Art: Executive Director Talk. The Phoenix Hotel, San Francisco, CA
2012
Best Revenge, The 22nd St. Coop. San Francisco, CA
Uncensored: Queer Art and The Church. Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art Annex, New York, NY
HairCake. The Tennis Court, Brooklyn, NY
2010
Chronotopia. SomArts Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Lopped Off. Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Fun-a-Day. Rock, Paper, Scissors Collective, Oakland, CA
BodyMindGender. WE Artspace, Oakland, CA
2009 Filthy Treats. Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2008 Girlfriends part Duh. Blankspace Gallery, Oakland, CA
PUBLICATIONS & TEXTS:
2022
Rudy Malcom. “Mikvehs, ‘Sex and the City’ and Judaica: How a sculptor is carving out space for queer and trans Jews.” The Jewish Daily Forward. July 28.
2021
“Gender Alchemy is Transforming Art for the 21st Century.” Jori Finkel. The New York Times. Sept 8 “
Feature - Hybrid Vessels: Nicki Green’s Transmutations.” Jenni Sorkin. C-File Online. June 2
2020
“Laisun Keane opens a solo exhibition of works by transdisciplinary artist Nicki Green.” Art Daily. Oct 10
“Hybrid Vessels: Nicki Green’s Transmutations.” Jenni Sorkin. Catalog Essay for Between Washing and Unwithering, Laisun Keane 2020
“San Francisco Bay Area Craft Week Street Scene N°3 ⟶ Handmade in the Mission.” PJ Gubatina Policarpio. Craft Council. Sept 10
2019
“ARTFORUM Critic’s Picks: Nicki Green at Et. Al. Etc.” Monica Westin. ARTFORUM. October 7.
”Bay Area Ceramics Scene Fired Up in New Ways” by Charles Desmarais. SF Chronicle Datebook, July 24
”In Depth: Oakland Museum Explores ‘Untold Stories’ of LGBTQ History” by Keith Menconi. KCBS Radio, May 18
”Queer Stories Reign Supreme at the Oakland Museum of California.” Sara Radin. Broadly. March 22
”On Our Radar: Nicki Green.” Deborah Bishop. American Craft Magazine. Feb/March
2018
”Does NYC’s ‘Gay Liberation Monument Whitewash Stonewall? The New Museum Proposes Replacements.” Jarrett Earnest. Vulture. Nov 28
”Review: Bay Area Now 8 @ YBCA.” Aaron Habour. Journal. Aug 7
”Expansive, Exciting ‘Bay Area Now 8’ Lives Up to Its Name at YBCA.” Sarah Hotchkiss. KQES Arts. Sept 7
”Bay Area Now 8 Interviews: Nicki Green.” Aaron Habour. Journal. Aug 7
Best of Berkeley: Best Local Artist. Olivia Jerram. The Daily Californian. April 20
”#TorahForTheResistance: The Queer Mikveh Project.” Nicki Green and Rebekah Erev. JewSchool. Jan 14
”The Art World’s Strangest New Trend - Fermentation.” Siobhan Leddy. Artsy.net. Jan
2017
Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility. Ed. Reina Gosset, Eric A. Stanley & Johanna Burton. The MIT Press.
Fermenting Feminism. ed. Lauren Fournier. Laboratory for Aesthetics and Ecology Publishing. Copenhagen, Denmark.
"It's Almost As If We've Existed: Contemporary Art in LGBT Archives" Genevieve Flavelle. The Bookcase Micro Museum and Library. January
2016
"GLBT History Museum Commemorates 50th Anniversary of Compton's Cafeteria Riot" Win Mixter. Hoodline. Aug. 17.
“Bay Area Sculpture Right Now: Nicki Green’s Talismans of Queer Subtlety” Sarah Hotchkiss. KQED Arts. Aug. 3.
"12 LGBTQ Artists Reflect On What Pride Means To Them" Katherine Brooks & Priscilla Frank. The Huffington Post. June 27.
"'Chain Reaction' Proves There's at Least 21 Artists Left In San Francisco" Sarah Hotchkiss. KQED Arts. June 13.
“Nicki Green’s Revolution” Adam Zucker. Rhino Horn Group. April 12.
"[2nd Floor Projects] // James Gobel :: Nicki Green :: Ariel Goldberg" Curiously Direct. Feb. 11.
"The Revolutionary Ceramics of Nicki Green." Jos Truitt. Feministing, Feb. 9
"Radiodress Queers the Ritual Bath in New Performance Project." Caoimhe Morgan-Feir. Canadian Art, Feb. 3.
2015
“17 Visual Artists You Should Know in 2016.” Priscilla Frank & Katherine Brooks. The Huffington Post, Dec. 22.
“Genderqueer and Trans Artists Breaking Down Barriers in Art.” Priscilla Frank. HuffPost Arts and Culture, Nov. 19.
“Nicki Green: Queer Myth and Symbol.” Callie Garp. Fabulously Feminist, Nov. 3.
"Sexy Shapes, The Apocalypse, and Impending Kineticism: Talking Basics with Nicki Green" Lisa Markuson. Posture Magazine, June.
"Your 99 Transgender History Lessons." Mitch Kellaway. The Advocate, March 24.
2014
"The Kitschy, Colorful, Queer World of Caitlin Rose Sweet." Annie Malamet. Posture Magazine, Sept. 25. “Museums & Galleries Picks: Soapbox.” Sarah Burke. East Bay Express, July 9.
“Tranny Rage: The Politics of Mythologizing Transness.” Nicki Green. Dirty Looks NYC, June.
"Conversations on Queer Health." Nicki Green and Sarah Lipkin-Lamay. Maximum Rock N Roll, January.
2013
"An Open Letter Introducing the Museum of Transgender Hirstory and Art." Chris E. Vargas. Art Practical, April.
"Craig Calderwood x Radar Spectacle." Michelle Tea. Radar Productions, May.
2012 "Auntie Rex." Faggot Dinosaur, ed. Ali Liebegott. Writers Among Artists San Francisco.
2011 "Turned Off: A Compendium of Tactics." Sadie Lune. Bend Over Magazine, Summer/Fall.
PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS:
2023
Cranbrook Academy of Art - Visiting Artist
2022
California State University, Long Beach - Artist Talk
2021
University of Colorado, Boulder - Visiting Artist
2020
Rhode Island School of Design - Artist Talk
2019
”But What Can Trans Do?: Discursive Art Making and Transdisciplinarity. Stanford University Feminist/Queer Colloquium - Lecture
Wiesenfeld Art Practice Lecture Series, UC Berkeley - Artist talk
2018
Queering the Archive. Denison University - Artist talk
SOFT BRICK. College Art Association, Critical Craft Forum: Voice of the Object - Lecture.
UC Santa Cruz - Artist Talk
Art and The Archive. The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life. Berkeley CA. - Panel
Jewish Queer Ritual Objects with Nicki Green and Merissa Nathan Gerson. The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco - Lecture
2016
Jewish Community Center East Bay - Contemporary Art and Jewish Themes - Artist talk
UC Berkeley - Contemporary American Art & Identity - Artist talk
2015
UC Berkeley - Advanced Ceramics: Deep Time of Ceramic Technology. Artist talk
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, EN
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles CA
The Rose Museum of Art, Brandeis University, Waltham MA
John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan WI
Kohler Company, Kohler WI
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley CA
Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, Berkeley CA
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
2023-Present Assistant Professor of Ceramics, Alfred University
2020-2023 Adjunct Professor, California State University, Long Beach
2021-2022 Visiting Artist, Claremont College
2016-2020 Adjunct Professor & Graduate Student Instructor, University of California, Berkeley