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Biography
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