biography / bibliography
2010
2010
2009
NICK CAVE
Born in 1959, Missouri
Lives and works in Chicago, IL
EDUCATION
1989
MFA, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
1982
BFA, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
1984-6
Graduate Studies, North Texas State University, Denton, TX
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010
Studio La Citta, Verona Italy
Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, College of Charleston, SC
Lost-and-Found, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City
Lost-and-Found, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City
2009
Nick Cave: Meet Me at the Center of the Earth, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
Recent Soundsuits, Jack Shainman Gallery, NY
2008
Alter-Skins, Fosdick-Nelson Gallery, Alfred, NY
Second Skins, Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville, FL
2007
32nd Annual Gail Silver Memorial Lecture, The RISD Museum, Providence, RI
2006
Nick Cave Soundsuits, Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Winter Park, FL
Soundsuits, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
Soundsuits, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
2005
Soundsuits, Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild, Pittsburgh, PA
2004
Soundsuits, Holter Museum of Art, Helena, MT
2003
Hand Workshop Art Center, Richmond, VA
2002
The Sybaris Gallery, Royal Oak, MI
Wright Museum Courtyard, Beloit, MI
Macalester College of Art, St. Paul, MN
2001
Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN
Objects of Desire, Noel Gallery, Charlotte, NC
Amalgamations, Allentown Art Museum, Allentown PA
New Work, Xavier, University Art Gallery, University of Cincinnati, OH
2000
Nick Cave 2000 Duane Reed Gallery, Chicago, IL
1999
Reparations, South Bend Museum of Art, South Bend, IN
New Work, Zone One Gallery, Asheville, NC
1997
New Work, Grand Arts, Kansas City, MO
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010
Resurrectine, Ronald Feldman Gallery, NY
Dead or Alive, Museum of Art and Design, NY
Dead or Alive, Museum of Art and Design, NY
Babin, Cave, Medvedz, Kupferschmidt, Eleven Rivington, NY
Pattern ID, Akron Art Museum, OH
Hand + Made: The Performative Impulse in Art and Craft, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston
2009
Re-AdDRESSing Identities: Clothing as Sculpture, Katonah Art Museum, NY
Über-Portrait, Bellevue Museum, Bellevue, WA
White Noise, James Cohan Gallery, NY
The Art of Fashion: Installing Allusions, Ruben Stakenburg
Museum Boijimans Van Beuninge, Rotterdam , The Netherlands
Savannah College of Art & Design (SCAD), GA
Giving Face: Portraits for a New Generation, Nicholas Robinson Gallery, New York, NY
2008-9
30 Americans, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL
Fashion Forward, Islip Art Museum, Long Island, NY
2008
Of the Cloth, Shore Institute of Contemporary Arts, NJ
Implant, The UBS Art Gallery, New York, NY
Boys of Summer, Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago, IL
Working History: African American Art and Objects, Cooley Gallery at Reed College, Pittsburgh
Speaking Volumes: Transforming Hate, Holter Museum, Helena, MT
Hot House: Expanding the Field of Fiber at Cranbrook, Reading Mueseum, Reading, PA
2007-8
Mask James Cohan Gallery, New York
2007
Taking Possesion UALR University of Arkansas, Little Rock, AK
The Handmaking Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, PA
Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville, FL
2006-7
A Changing Fabric, Salina Art Center, KS
2006
Crafty, Mass Art, Boston, MA
Unholy Alliance: Art + Fashion Meet Again” Museum of
Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, Canada
Black Alphabet: Contexts of Contemporary African-American Art”
The Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland
Black Panther Rank and File, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2005
Frequency, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
Different Wavelengths, Tina Kim Fine Art, New York
Art-wear, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA
The Whole World is Rotten, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
2004
The Nature of Craft and the Penland Experience, The Mint Museum of Craft and Design, Charlotte, NC
Cross Currents, Portsmouth Museum, Portsmouth, VA
Crowning Glory Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
2003
Independent: Inseparable: Intersection, Suburban Fine Arts Center, Highland Park, IL
2002
Body and Soul, American Craft Museum, New York
Concealing & Revealing, John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI
Galerie Beeld & Aambeeld, Enschede, The Netherlands
Netherlands Textile Museum, The Netherlands
2001
Zierat, Galerie CEBRA, Dusseldorf, Germany
I am Someone Else, The Conenexion, The Netherlands
Kestner Museum, Hannover, Germany
Recycle/Redefined, Anne Reed Gallery, Ketchum, ID
Hand Workshop Art Center, Richmond, VA
Music in my Soul, The Portsmouth Museums, Portsmouth, VA
Face in the Field, The Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL
2000
Zierat, Southwest School of Arts & Craft, San Antonio, TX
S.O.S. Scenes of Sound, The Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Saratoga Springs, NY
Grand Arts, Kansas City, MO
Tryon Center for the Visual Arts, Artist in Residence, Charlotte, NC
New Bedford Museum of Art, New Bedford, MA
Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL
1999
Stop Asking We Exist, American Craft Museum, New York
Men of the Cloth, Loveland Museum of Art, Loveland, CO
INVITED JUROR
2003
“Art to Wear”; 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA
2002
Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center; Michigan Annual Fine Arts
Competition, Birmingham, MI
Greater Columbus Arts Council Grant, Columbus, OH
The Wisconsin Exhibition, Stevens Point, WI
1989
North Carolina Arts Council, Raleigh, NC
1995
Mid-America Arts Alliance; Mid-American Artist Grant, Kansas City, MO
1994-8
School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Fashion
Department, Junior Scholarship Awards, Chicago, IL
1996
Columbia Collage; Fashion Department, Fashion Competition Awards, Chicago, IL
1995
Evanston Arts Council; 10th Anniversary Evanston Ethnic Arts Festival, Evanston, IL
Textile Art Center; Exhibition of conceptual clothing entitled “New Habits”, Chicago, IL
PERFORMANCES
2004
Holter Museum of Art, Helena, MT
2003
Virginia Commonwealth University, School of the Arts, Richmond, VA
“Feast for the Eyes”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
viewing the collection and studio of Nick Cave with a mini performance. Chicago
2002
“BamBoleo”, Lincoln Park Zoo, Chicago, IL
“The Color of Fashion”, Chicago, IL
2001
“Serious Moonlight”, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
2000
“Convergence 2000”, Handweavers Guild of America, Inc
Conference, Cincinnati, OH
Pennsylvania Art Education Association, (PAEA), Conference, Allentown, PA
AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS
2008
Joan Mitchell Foundation Award
2006
Artadia Award
Joyce Foundation Joyce Award
2004
Creative Capital Grant
2002
Creative Capital Grant
2001
Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award
2000
“FACES IN THE FIELD”, The Field Museum of Natural History Award
1997
Illinois Arts Council State Grant
1993
Arts Midwest Grant
Illinois Arts Council State Grant
1987
Ford Foundation Scholarship (also 1998 and 1999)
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Brooklyn Museum, NY
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C
Portland Art Museum, OR
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Philadelphia, PA
The Nerman Museum, Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, KS
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Seattle Art Museum, WA
The RISD Museum, Providence, RI
Rubell Collection, Miami, FL
De Young Museum, CA
Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC
21C Museum Foundation, Louisville, KY
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
TEACHING
2009
Fabric Workshop & Museum , Philadelphia, PA
2005
Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild, Pittsburgh
2004
Museum of Contemporary Art, “Altered Garments”, workshop/lecture, Chicago
Holter Museum of Art, Helena, MT
City Association of The Art Institute of Chicago, studio visit/lecture
Portland Art Museum Association, studio visit/lecture
2003
University of Arizona, lecture/workshop
Studio tour/lecture, School of the Art Institute Women’s Board, Chicago, IL
Studio tour/lecture, Oakland Art Museum Women’s Board, Oakland, CA
Studio tour/lecture, American Craft Council, New York
Studio tour/lecture, Grand Rapids Community College, Grand Rapids, MI
2002
The Costume Society of America Annual National Symposium “The Future of Dress: Education and Advocacy?” participant in the panel discussion, Chicago
Creative Capital Retreat, Lecture, New York
2001
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, Fashion Department, Tenure Appointment
Beloit College, Beloit, WI
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago IL, Fashion Dept
2000
Tryon Center for the Visual Arts, Charlotte, NC
Allentown School for Visual and Performing Arts, Allentown, PA
University of North Carolina-Charlotte, Charlotte, NC
University of Manoi-Honolulu, Honolulu, HI
1999
University of Wisconsin at Madison, Madison, WI,
University of Massachusetts, Darmont, MA
Island Press, Washington University, St Louis, MO
1998
Grand Arts, Kansas City, MO
Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL
1997
Pillchuck Glass School, Seattle WA
1989
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago IL, Department of Fiber and Material Studies, Fulltime Visiting Artist