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Biography

Tumbleweeds, prairies, cattle ranches, the Dust Bowl, etc. are the backdrop for much of Lori Nix’s photographic work. She has lived most of her life in the Midwest—Kansas, Missouri, and Arkansas. The series "Accidentally Kansas" depicts natural disasters constructed from models and elements from her rural youth – buckwheat flour, sawdust, feather boas, and bamboo skewers. Her homemade scenes of tornadoes, floods, animal fatalities, and insect infestations offer a surreal yet humorous vision of survival in the mundane landscape of the Midwest.

Since Lori has recently transplanted herself to New York City, she has begun to create landscapes in a broader context. No longer solely exploring the Midwest and its disasters, she is now examining the boundaries where city and rural landscapes meet. The phrase du jour, urban sprawl, is given a slightly acidic perspective in recent photographs.

Lori Nix has received numerous photography awards. She is a 1999 recipient of an Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Grant; a Greater Columbus Ohio Arts Grant recipient in 1998; and participated in the Artist in the Marketplace program at the Bronx Museum of the Arts in 2000. Her photographic series "Accidentally Kansas" has been nationally exhibited in both group and solo formats. She has exhibited at SF Camerawork in San Francisco, The Houston Center for Photography in Spring 2001, and will have a solo show at Epixenter Gallery in Houston, Texas in 2002.

 

Resume

Born in 1969, Norton, Kansas
Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York


SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2001

Lori Nix "Some Place Else"
Kagan Martos Gallery, New York, NY

Lori Nix
White Room, White Columns, New York, NY

Lori Nix
Miller Block Gallery, Boston, MA

1999

Accidentally Kansas
Epixenter Gallery, Houston, TX

Accidentally Kansas
Trumball Art Gallery, Warren, OH

1997

She's Funny That Way
Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL

Celestial Hair
Truman State University, Kirksville, MO

1994

Illegally Curated Major Museum Exhibition
The Guggenheim, New York


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS


2001

Revival!
Bridgewater/Lustberg & Blumenfeld Gallery, New York, NY

Picnic
Kagan Martos Gallery, New York, NY

Toying with Reality: Ten Interpretations
Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX

peaks
Kagan Martos Gallery, New York, NY

Voies Off
Arles, France

Tweaked
Angel Orensanz Foundation Center for the Arts, New York, NY

Spacetimelinks
Penzenstadler & Schaller Architekten, Barr, Switzerland
Curator Gretel's_File

2000

untitled (conjecture)
SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA

It's A Cruel World
White Columns, New York, NYCurator Paul Ha

Flurry
The Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Curator David R. Burke

Artist in the Marketplace
The Bronx Museum, New York, NY

1999

The Artist As Patron
The Alternative Museum, New York, NY

Accidentally Kansas
The Edge of the Image: 3 Women in Photography
Fruit Avenue Gallery, Cleveland, OH

Embellished Truths
The Clement Gallery, Center for the Visual Arts, Toledo, OH

1998

New Voices New Visions
The Alternative Museum, New York, NY

Vistas and Habitats
Lanning Gallery, Columbus, OH

1997

Altered Egos
Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, Buffalo, NY
Curator Reine Hauser


PUBLICATIONS

New York Times, Art Guide, pg. E38, November 23, 2001, Vol. CLI, No. 51,946

SPOT, Houston Center for Photography "The Dangers and Pleasures of Toys" Spring/Summer 2001, Volume xx, Number 1

TimeOut New York, March 9-16, 2000, Issue No. 233, pg. 57

The Brooklyn Paper, "Storm Front" January 31, 2000, Volume 23, Number 5

Cleveland Free Times, "I of a Child: Art and Psychology Merge at Fruit Avenue Gallery" March 3-9, 1999

DIALOGUE, Cover Image, July/August 1998, Volume 21, Number 3

DIALOGUE, "Six State Photography '98 Review" May/June 1998, Volume 21, Number 2, pg. 19

NEWCITY, Chicago's News & Arts Weekly, Art Tip of the Week, Volume 12, No. 472, June 19, 1997

DIVA Magazine, April/May Issue No. 18, London, UK, 1997

Richard Huntington, The Buffalo News-Gusto, "Something They're Not: Artists looking for identities outside themselves", p. 22, April 11, 1997

Natalie Green, Artvoice, Buffalo, "Altered Egos Innerselves", page 3, March 19, 1997

WIDE ANGLE Journal of Film History, Theory, Criticism and Practice Volume 18, No. 4, October 1996


HONORS

2001

Light Work, Artist-In-Residence, Syracuse, NY

1999

Artist in the Marketplace, The Bronx Museum

Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Grant Recipient

1998

Greater Columbus Arts Council Individual Artist Grant Recipient

1995

American Photography Institute Fellow, New York University, Tisch School of the Arts, New York, NY


EDUCATION

1995

MFA, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio

1993

BFA, Truman State University, Kirksville, Missouri

 

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