Tucker Nichols (born May 14, 1970) is an American artist. His artwork includes drawings, paintings, sculptures, books, in-gallery cinema and performance spaces and large scale works on walls and storefront windows. He has a BA from
Brown University
Brown University is a private research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providenc ...
and an MA from
Yale University
Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wo ...
, both in the history of Chinese Painting. He lives near
San Francisco
San Francisco (; Spanish language, Spanish for "Francis of Assisi, Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the List of Ca ...
.
Projects
Tucker Nichols' work has been featured at the
Drawing Center
The Drawing Center is a Manhattan, New York, museum and a nonprofit exhibition space that focuses on the exhibition of drawings, both historical and contemporary.
History
The Drawing Center was founded by former assistant curator of drawings at ...
in New York, Den Frie Museum in Copenhagen, The
Denver Art Museum
The Denver Art Museum (DAM) is an art museum located in the Civic Center of Denver, Colorado. With encyclopedic collections of more than 70,000 diverse works from across the centuries and world, the DAM is one of the largest art museums between t ...
, and the
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) is a modern and contemporary art museum located in San Francisco, California. A nonprofit organization, SFMOMA holds an internationally recognized collection of modern and contemporary art, and was ...
, the
Contemporary Jewish Museum
The Contemporary Jewish Museum (CJM) is a non-collecting museum at 736 Mission Street at Yerba Buena Lane in the South of Market (SoMa) neighborhood of San Francisco, California. The museum, which was founded in 1984, is located in the historic ...
, and the
.
Nichols' drawings have been published in
McSweeney's
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Initially publishing the literary journal'' Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern'', the company has moved to n ...
,
J&L Books, The Thing Quarterly, Nieves Books, and the op-ed pages of
The New York Times
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. ''Crabtree'', a children's book by Jon and Tucker Nichols, was published by McSweeney's in 2013. ''This Bridge Will Not Be Gray'', a book by Dave Eggers and Tucker Nichols, was published by McSweeney's in 2015.
''Stage Presence, Theatricality in Art and Media'' in 2012'', a'' multimedia in-gallery cinema and performance space at the SF MOMA''.''
''Flowers for Sick People'', a multimedia project in 2021, in which he creates flowers and then mails them across the world is featured at the SF MOMA.
He is represented by Zieher Smith & Horton in New York and
Gallery 16
Gallery 16 is a contemporary art gallery located in the SoMa district of San Francisco, California. It is owned by the San Francisco-based painter Griff Williams, and opened in 1993. Artists who have exhibited there include Graham Gillmore, Tuck ...
in San Francisco.
Exhibitions
SFMOMA, San Francisco, ''Close to Home, Creativity in Crisis''. 6 March - 5 September 2021.
References
External links
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Anonymous Postcard
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1970 births
American artists
Brown University alumni
The New Yorker people
Yale University alumni
Living people