On View: September 13 - October 19, 2013
Opening Reception: Friday, September 13, 7-9pm
- EDUCATION
- 2009 American University, Washington, DC;
MFA in Studio Art
- 1998 - 2004 Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA;
BFA in Painting and Printmaking (2002) and in Art Education (2004)
- PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
- 2009 - Present: Adjunct Instructor, Longwood University, Farmville, VA;
Foundations of Contemporary Design, Introduction to Drawing, Life Drawing, Experimental Media in Drawing, Integrated Arts, and 3D Design
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SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
- 2013 Alter Space, San Francisco, CA, “Practicing to Pretend”
Delicious Spectacle, Washington, DC, “Unfettered”
Volume, online exhibition, “Building Black”
- 2012 McLean Project for the Arts, McLean, VA, “Edges and Grids”
Civilian Art Projects, Washington, DC, “Holiday Party”
Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD, “The Sum of the Parts”
COOP, Nashville, TN, “Space Spells” (solo)
Transformer, Washington, DC, “Transformer’s Ninth Annual Benefit Auction”
- 2011 Civilian Art Projects, Washington, DC, “SITE/SCHEMA” (solo)
Artspace, Richmond, VA, “Radius 250”
- 2010 The Rawls Museum, Courtland, VA, “Episodic Narrative”
Katzen Art Center, Washington, DC, “RE-VISION: American University Alumni”
1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA, “Monster Drawing Rally”
The Rawls Museum, Courtland, VA, “Alternating Realities” (solo)
Transformer, Washington, DC, “Transformer’s Seventh Annual Benefit Auction”
Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Virginia Beach, VA, “New Waves 2010”
- 2009 Civilian Art Projects, Miami, FL, “SCOPE Miami”
Artspace, Richmond, VA, “Think Small Biennial Invitational”
Civilian Art Projects, Washington, DC, “Debriscapes” (solo)
Transformer/ X-Initiative, New York City, NY, “No Soul For Sale”
Transformer, Washington, DC, “Transformer’s Sixth Annual Benefit Auction”
The Rawls Museum, Courtland, VA, “2009 Annual Juried Exhibition”
New American Paintings, The Open Studios Press, Boston, MA, “Mid- Atlantic States Competition #81”
Katzen Art Center, Washington, DC, “Results”
- 2008 Randall Scott Gallery, Washington, DC, “Quasi-Painting”
Transformer and Heineman Myers, Washington, DC, “Paper Trail”
Civilian Art Projects, Washington, DC, “Quart Bag”
Paperwork Gallery, Baltimore, MD, “Paper Airplane”
Katzen Art Center, Washington, DC, “NINE"
- 2006 Gallery 5, Richmond, VA, “Urban Scrawl”
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SELECTED AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS
- 2011 Third Place, “Radius 250,” Artspace, Richmond, VA
- 2010 First Runner Up “New Waves 2010,” Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Virginia Beach, VA
- 2009 Mellon Research Grant, American University, Washington, D.C.
Wolpoff Purchase Award, American University, Washington, D.C.
Best In Show “2009 Annual Juried Exhibition”, Rawls Museum, Courtland, VA
- 2006 Artist Residency, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
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SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
- San Francisco Arts Quarterly Online, Matthew Marchand, “Practicing to Pretend at Alter Space, San Francisco, Part 2 of 2,” August, 2013.
- Washington Post, Mark Jenkins, “Journeys to the Intersection of Mind and Matter,” January 31, 2013.
- Washington Post, Michael O’Sullivan, “Going Out Guide Art Review: The Sum of the Parts,” March 8, 2012.
- Volume, “Nikki Painter (interview),” http://volumex3.wordpress.com/2011/09/17/nikki-painter/, September, 2011
- Washington Post, Mark Jenkins, “Land artists’ works on paper show larger site-specific endeavors,” October 6, 2011.
- New American Paintings, Mid-Atlantic States Competition #81, The Open Studios Press, Boston, MA, April 2009.
- BMORE ART, “Quasi-Painting at Randall Scott Gallery,” http://bmoreart.blogspot.com/2008/12/quasi-painting-at-rsg-on-saturday_11.html, December 2008.
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