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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.
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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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