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Nic Nicosia

Biography
Nic Nicosia was born in 1951 in Dallas, TX. He currently lives and works in Santa Fe, NM. in 1974 Nic received a BS in Radio-TV-Film from The University of North Texas with a concentration in motion pictures. Working as a conceptual artist who uses a camera, Nic subsequently applied his cinematic mind-set for the making of a still image. He fabricates and stages situations and events to be photographed and is recognized as a pioneer of the staged photographic movement that came into prominence in the early 1980's. Nicosia also does portrait commissions, has made films and book.

Exhibits
Nicosia's first solo show in New York City was at Artist Space in 1982, followed by this work being included in the 1983 Whitney Biennial, and New Perspectives in American Art, 1983 Exxon National Exhibition at the Guggenheim. He has been included in several biennials including Documenta IX, Kassel, Germany in 1992, and a second Whitney Biennial in 2000. Nicosia has had over seventy solo exhibits and his work has been shown in galleries and museums throught the United States, Canada and Europe. In 1999 the Contemporary Arts Museum, in Houston, launched a retrospective of Nicosia's work; Nic Nicosia, Real Pictures 1979-1999, which travel to several venues. Another major survey of his work was exhibited at CASA in Salamanca, Spain in 2003.

Photography
1982 Domestic Drama

Filmography
In addition to his photography and portrait commissions, Nic has also filmed, written, directed and produced 11 video shorts, digital shorts, and digital longs. He uses friends, family and professional models to fabricate an American suburbia, often hinging on some inexplicable act, gesture or facial expression surrounded by otherwise serene circumstances.

These films have been shown in museums and galleries throughout the United States and Spain including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX; SITE Santa Fe; Austin Museum of Art and Texas Fine Arts Assoc.; Contemporary Arts Museum of Houston; CASA, Salamanca, Spain; Dallas Video Festival, Dallas Museum of Art, U.S.A. Film Festival, 2000; Whitney Museum of Art, New York; New York Video Festival 199 and the Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art.

2003-2004 1/2 HOURS to SaFe, Digital Video

2003 Small Fires, Digital Video.

2002 SaFe @ 360°, Digital Video

2001 on Acting America, 16mm, color

2000 "Cerchi e Quadratti", 35mm, color

1999 "Middletown Morning", 16mm, color

1998 "Moving Picture", 16mm, color

1997 "Middletown", Mini, D.V. B+W

1997 "So...You wanna be an artist", Mini D.V. B+W

1997 "Drawing Life", Stop-action animation. Mini D.V. color

Portrait Commissions
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Awards and Grants
In addition to a 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship, Nicosia received a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation grant in 1982, Awards in the Visual Arts - AVA 11 in 1991, and The Tesuque Foundation, Artist Fellowship Grant in 1998