Nicholas Nixon né en 1947 à Détroit, Michigan. Professeur d’arts plastiques depuis 1975, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston.

ETUDES

1969

Licence en art, Université du Michigan.

1974

Master en art, Université du Nouveau Mexique.

BOURSES ET PRIX

2000

Bourse de la Fondation George Gund.

1988

Prix des Amis Professionnels de la Photographie.

1987

Bourse de la Photographie du National Endowment for the Arts.

1986

Bourse de la Fondation à la Mémoire de John Simon Guggenheim.

1982

Bourse “New York” du Massachusetts Council of the Arts.

1980

Bourse de la Photographie du National Endowment for the Arts.

1977

Bourse de la Fondation à la Mémoire de John Simon Guggenheim.

1976

Bourse de la Photographie du National Endowment for the Arts.

EXPOSITIONS PERSONNELLES SÉLECTIONNÉES

2021

Une infime distance, Galerie Château d'Eau, Toulouse, France.

2016                     

Old and New, Galerie Eric Dupont, Paris.

2015                

Les Soeurs Brown, Musée du Temps, Besançon.

About Forty Years, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco. 

2013

New work, Galerie Fraenkel, San Francisco.

Here and Now, Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York.

2012

Nicholas Nixon, Galerie Eric Dupont, Paris.

2010

Nicholas Nixon: Family Album, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Boston.

2009

Nicholas Nixon : City & Self, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco.

Nicholas Nixon : Old Home, New Pictures, Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York.

The Mapfre Foundation, Madrid, Espagne.

Nicholas Nixon : The Brown Sisters 1975-2008, L’Alhambra, Granada, Espagne.

2008

Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco.

Patients, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York.

2007

Patients, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco.

Nicholas Nixon: 30 Years of Photography, Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, Missouri.

The Naked Portrait, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edimbourg, Ecosse.

2006

Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas.

2005

Nicholas Nixon: The Brown Sisters, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC.

Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio.

Yossi Milo Gallery, New York.

2004

Nicholas Nixon: Recent Work, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco.

Upright Female, Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts.

Close and Far, Zabriskie Gallery, New York.

2003

Family Ties, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts.

Musrara Museum, Jerusalem, Israel.

Close and Far, Zabriskie Gallery, New York.

2001

Lovers, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco.

A City Seen, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio.

Couples, Zabriskie Gallery, New York.

Human Experience : Photographs by Nicholas Nixon, Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio.

1999

Zabriskie Gallery, New York.

1998

Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco.

Zabriskie Gallery, New York.

1997

Fraenkel GalleryZabriskie Gallery, New York.

Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Allemagne.

1996

Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts.

1995

Fraenkel Gallery Nicholas Nixon: Pictures of People, Musée d'Art Moderne, Paris, France.

1994

Sprengel Museum, Hanovre, Allemagne.Zabriskie Gallery, New York.

1992

Zabriskie Gallery, New York.

1991

San Diego Art Museum, San Diego, Californie.

1990

Zabriskie Gallery, New York.

St. Louis Museum of Art, St. Louis, Missouri.

1989

Victoria and Albert Museum, Londres.

Nicholas Nixon: Pictures of People, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Milwaukee Art Institute, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.Detroit Institute of Arts, Détroit.

1988

Fraenkel GalleryZabriskie Gallery, New York.

Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

1986                       

Fraenkel GalleryPace/MacGill Gallery, New York.

Edwynn Houk Gallery, Chicago.

Cleveland Museum of Art.

1985

Art Institute of Chicago.Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Caroline du Nord.

1984

Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco.Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

California Museum of Photography, Riverside, Californie.

Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York.

1983

Friends of Photography, Carmel, Californie.Madison Art Center, Madison, Wisconsin.

Daniel Wolf, Inc., New York.

1982

Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco.

Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston.

Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York.Edwynn Houk Gallery, Chicago.

1981

Light Gallery, New York.

1980

Fraenkel GalleryLight Gallery, New York.

1979

Light Gallery, New York.

1978

Light Gallery, New York.

Vision Gallery, Boston.

1977

Vision Gallery, Boston.

1976

Museum of Modern Art, New York.

EXPOSITIONS COLLECTIVES SÉLECTIONNÉES

2020

Comme des tourbillons de poussières à la Biennale de la Photographie, Mulhouse.

2016                 

La tisserande des nuits – photographies 1, La Box -  galerie de l’École nationale supérieure d’art de Bourges, Bourges.

2015                 

Tout le monde, le Crédac, Ivry-sur-Seine.

2014

Le Mur, Collection Antoine de Galbert, La Maison Rouge, Paris.

2013

Concrete – Photography and Architecture, Fotomusem Winterthur, Zurich, Suisse.

2012 - 2013

FRAC Forever, Centre Georges Pompidou Metz, France.

2012

Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin, Etats-Unis.

2011 - 2012

Photography Calling! Sprengel Museum, Hanovre, Allemagne.

2009

New Topographics : Photographs of the Man-Altered Landscape, (exposition itinérante)

- 13 juin au 4 octobre 2009: George Eastman House,

- 25 octobre 2009 au 3 janvier 2010: Los Angeles County Museum of Art,- 19 février au 16 mai 2010: Center for Creative Photography,

- 17 juillet au 3 octobre 2010: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,

- 10 novembre 2010 au 9 janvier 2011: Landesgalerie Linz, Autriche,

- 27 janvier au 3 avril 2011: Photographische Sammlung Stiftung Kultur, Cologne,

- 11 avril au 12 juin 2011: Jeu de Paume, Paris,

- 2 juillet au 11 septembre 2011: Nederlands Fotomuseum Rotterdam, Pays-Bas,

- novembre 2011 à janvier 2012: Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, Bilbao.

Staring, Davidson College of Art, Davidson College, Caroline du Nord.

2005

Museum of Modern Art, New York.

2003

Family Ties, Peabody Essex Museum Salem, Massachusetts.

Cruel and Tender, Tate Modern, Londres.

2001

A City Seen, Cleveland Museum of Art.

2000

How You Look At It, Sprengel Museum, Hanovre, Allemagne.

2000

People/Places, MoMA; New-York.

1999

The Model Wife, San Diego Museum of Art.

1998

Newly Acquired Works, Seattle Art Museum.

1997

About Faces: The History of the Portrait in Photography, Fogg Art Museum, Boston.

1995

Visions of Childhood, Bard College, New York.Hidden Faces, Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles.

1992

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

Eadweard Muybridge and Contemporary American Photography, The Addison Gallery of American Art, Massachusetts.

Fables of the Visible World, Massachusetts College of Art.

1990

Photography Until Now, Museum of Modern Art, New York.

1989

Honolulu Academy of Arts, Hawai.

1987

Twelve Photographers Look at U.S., Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Photographs from the Last Decade, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

1986

Variants, Museum of Modern Art, New York.Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Californie.

1984

Les Ages et les Villes:  Frederick Cantor - Nicholas Nixon, The American Center, Paris.

1982

The Contact Print, Friends of Photography, Carmel, Californie.

20th Century Photographs from the Museum of Modern Art, The Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo.

1981

American Children, Museum of Modern Art, New York.

1980

Photography and Architecture, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco.

American Photography in the 70s, Art Institute of Chicago.

1979

American Images, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

1978

Mirrors and Windows, Museum of Modern Art, New York.14 New England Photographers, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Nicholas Nixon/William Eggleston, The Cronin Gallery, Houston.

1977

Court House, Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Nicholas Nixon and Stephen Shore, Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts.

New York : The City and Its People, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, Connecticut.

1975

New Topographics, International Museum of Photography, George Eastman House, Rochester, New York.

PUBLICATIONS SÉLECTIONNÉES

2013

Les photographies de Nicholas Nixon à la Fraenkel Gallery, AMA, 28 mai 2013.

BARNAS Ed, Nicholas and Bebe, The New York Photo Review, 6 février 2013.Nicholas Nixon, Here and Now, The Daily Beast, janvier 2013.

2012

CANITROT Armelle, “The Brown Sisters” de Nicholas Nixon, La Croix, 21 novembre 2012.CORDOVA Katia, Nicholas Nixon, le photographe humaniste, Focus numérique, 18 novembre 2012.

Le temps passe, évidemment, Beaux-Arts Magazine, décembre 2012.KENNICOT Philip, National Gallery’s ‘Serial Portrait’ show reveals more than faces, The Washington Post, 29 septembre 2012.

AUGSCHÖLL Daniel et JASBAR Anya, Interview with: Nicholas Nixon, Ahorn magazine, 2012.

Close Far, Steidl, Fraenkel Gallery, Pace/MacGill Gallery.

2009

“Live Love Look Last”, Steidl, Fraenkel Gallery, Pace/MacGill Gallery.

2007

“Nicholas Nixon, The Brown Sisters, Thirty-three Years”, The Museum of Modern Art, NY.

2004

“Nicholas Nixon:  At Home”, Lodima Press, Ottsville, Pennsylvanie.

2003    

“Nicholas Nixon”, TF Editores, Madrid.

2002

“XL Photography 2”, Hatje Cantz Collection, Deutsche Borse, Allemagne.

2001

“A City Seen”, Cleveland Museum of Art.

2000

“How You Look At It”, Thomas Weski, Sprengel Museum, Hanovre, Allemagne.

1999

“The Model Wife”, Arthur Ollman, San Diego Museum of Art.“The Brown Sisters”, Museum of Modern Art, New York. 

1998

“School” Photographs From Three Schools by Nicholas Nixon. Essay by Robert Coles; Bulfinch Press/Little, Brown, New York.

1994

“Familienbilder: Nicholas Nixon”, Sprengel Museum, Hanovre, Allemagne.

1991

“People With AIDS”, Bebe Nixon, David R. Godine, Boston.“Family Pictures:  Photographs by Nicholas Nixon”, Smithsonian Press, Washington, D.C.

1990

“Photography Until Now”, John Szarkowski, Museum of Modern Art, New York.

1988

“Nicholas Nixon:  Pictures of People”, Peter Galassi, Museum of Modern Art, New York.

1984

“20th Century Photographs from the Museum of Modern Art”, John Szarkowski, Museum ofModern Art, New York.

1983

“Nicholas Nixon: Photographs From One Year”, Friends of Photography, Carmel, Californie.

1979

“American Images”, Renato Danese ed., McGraw-Hill, New York.

1978

“Mirrors and Windows”, John Szarkowski, Museum of Modern Art, New York.“Courthouse”, Richard Pare ed., Horizon, New York.

1975

“New Topographics”, William Jenkins ed.,International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, Rochester, New-York.

COLLECTIONS SÉLECTIONNÉES

Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth

Art Institute of Chicago

Australian National Gallery

Baltimore Museum of Art

Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris

Bowdoin College Art Museum

Cincinnati Art Museum

Cleveland Art Museum

Dallas Art Museum

Denver Art Museum

Detroit Institute of Arts

Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University

Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, Michigan

High Art Museum, Atlanta

International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House

J. Paul Getty Museum of Art, Los Angeles

Los Angeles County Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Minneapolis Institute of Art

Musée d'Art Moderne, Paris

Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Museum of New Mexico, Santa FeMuseum of Photographic Arts, San Diego

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

National Gallery of Canada

Philadelphia Museum of Art

Pilara Family Foundation, San Francisco

Pittsburgh Art Museum

San Diego Museum of Art

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Seagram Collection, New York

Seattle Art InstituteSeattle Art Museum

St. Louis Art Museum

Smithsonian Institution

Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany

Tokyo Metropolitan Museum

Tokyo Museum of ArtToledo Art Museum

The UBS Art Collection, Zurich

Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Wellesley College Art Museum