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contact name: Trever Nicholas
email: n_revert2@hotmail.com

2004 M.F.A. University of Minnesota,
Minneapolis
2001 B.A. University of Minnesota,
Minneapolis

2005

Jerome MCAD Fellowship, Finalist

Jerome Fellowship, Anderson Center

Jurors choice (Juror- Robert Rosenblum) Awarded two person show for winter 2005, Viridian Artists Inc. New York, New York

Soo Visual Art Center, Best of Show, Juried exhibition Untitled 4

2004

Jerome Artist Grant, Franklin Art Works

Group Exhibitions (*Solo shows marked by asterisk)

2005

Viridian Artist XVI Annual Juried Exhibition, Juried by Robert Rosenblum: Curator Guggenheim Museum, Curators choice- Awarded two person show for spring 2006, New York, New York

1,000 Drawings, Artists Space, New York, New York

*The Transformation of Matter, Legion Arts, Cedar Rapids, Iowa

A-List, Soo Visual Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota

*Sphericity, Christensen Center Art Gallery, Augsburg College, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Untitled 4, Soo Visual Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Projekt30 Gallery, February, http://www.projekt30.com

2004

*Plastic Atmosphere, Franklin Art Works, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Box Fresh, The Soap Factory, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Fetishspheres, Atelier31, Seattle, Washington

Untitled 3, Soo Visual Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Refresh, Regis Center for the Arts, MFA Thesis Exhibition, Minneapolis, Minnesota

2003

Systemaddicts, Paul Watkins Gallery, Winona State University, Winona, Minnesota

Mandatory, Kohls Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Visible Fringe, Thomas Barry Gallery Fine Arts Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota

2002

All At One Point, Minnetonka Art Center, Minnetonka, Minnesota

*Footprints, Oasis Art Gallery, Marquette, Michigan

2001

*Visual Rhythm, Mezzanine Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Artists Among Us, Katherine E. Nash Gallery, Minneapolis Minnesota

Artist Statement

I am a cross disciplinary visual artist who is interested in observing, exploring, and connecting visual elements of the physical world in order to create objects of wonder and phenomenological installations. My artwork presents an innocent playfulness, yet also maintains an awkward conversation about fetish and commodity. I am interested in elements of science, aspects of desire, the commonplace physical world, and failure derived from experimentation.

I adopt objects and imageries from my surroundings, and take note of oddity found among the ordinary. I am interested in perceived experience as felt through the body and, I am curious about our visceral understandings of beauty, desire, disgust, oddity, and phenomenological entities.

The artwork I create is derived from experimentation and reverie. My studio is filled with ambitious failures and curiously successful experiments. I am interested in how place affects the outcome of these explorations and often seek out nontraditional settings to construct my installations. These explorations are integral to my art making process as I utilize the useful bits and pieces of these discoveries to create curious environments and objects of wonder.

Trever Nicholas - 2005

Residencies

2005 Anderson Center, Red Wing, Minnesota, July 1 - July 31

SOME ARE FRESHER THAN OTHERS: "BOX FRESH" AT THE SOAP
http://www.mnartists.org/article.do?rid=48623

IN MEDIAS RES: PUNCHING IT OUT WITH APPEARANCES AT SOO VAC
http://mnartists.org/article.do?rid=42211

Country of Citizenship:
United States

Birth Date:
November 19, 1978

Gender:
Male

Active Place:
Minneapolis

Minnesota County:
Hennepin

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