About
Nic Koller is a visual artist, filmmaker, composer, performer and poet whose works span drawing, painting, animation, experimental film, multimedia installations, soundscapes and spoken word albums. While Nic’s interdisciplinary work has been shown in Sundance Film Festival's "New Frontier" Program, the New Yorker's "Daily Shouts" and in film festivals worldwide, including Tribeca Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, and Annecy International Animation Festival, they primarily perform and show work locally in New York City. Nic's oeuvre mixes collage, technology and personal vulnerability and often integrates digital and analog processes, bringing modern technologies in collaboration with traditional art materials.
Interplay and Causality
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EDUCATION
- University of Texas at Austin, Bachelor of Fine Arts, Studio Art: Painting, 2006
- University of Texas at Austin, Bachelor of English, Language and Literature, 2006
PERFORMANCES
- 2024 On the Edge of the Infinite, The Active Space, Brooklyn, NY
- 2024 Words, Music, Poetry, Unnameable Books, Brooklyn, NY
- 2024 Blocks of Color Blocks of Sound, Tappeto Volante, Brooklyn, NY
- 2023 Closing for "Anthro-Shift", NYSS Project Space, Brooklyn, NY
- 2023 David Bowie’s Birthday, Tappeto Volante, Brooklyn, NY
- 2022 Opening for "Ride Me to the Future", Wild Birds, Brooklyn, NY
- 2022 Opening for John Richey's "Rearranging the Sky", Lagoon NY, Brooklyn, NY
- 2017 Online Performance Art Festival, Live Stream Performance of "Most People: A Work in Progress"
- 2016 Most People: A Work in Progress, Standard Toykraft, Brooklyn, NY
SCREENINGS
- 2022 Deep Focus Film Festival, Brooklyn, NY
- 2021 Video Art Experimental Film Festival, Tribeca Film Center, New York, NY
- 2020 Video Art Festival Turku, City Library of Turku, Turku, Finland
- 2020 Panorama, Beijing International Film Festival, Beijing, China
- 2020 VR/Immersive Program, Red Sea International Film Festival Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
- 2020 Avril 2020, Video Consortium, Paris
- 2020 New Frontier VR Cinema, Sundance Film Festival, Park City, UT
- 2019 Peekskill Film Festival, Hudson Valley MOCA, Peekskill, NY
- 2019 Video Art Festival Turku, City Library of Turku, Turku, Finland
- 2019 Straight Through the Wall 2019, Projections in Brooklyn & Manhattan, NY
- 2018 Video Art Experimental Film Festival, Tribeca Film Center, New York, NY
- 2016 Video Art Experimental Film Festival, Tribeca Film Center, New York, NY
- 2016 Monkey Town 7, 111 W 21st St, Los Angeles
EXHIBITIONS
- 2023 Library Group Show, Curated by Glenn Goldberg, Tappeto Volante, Brooklyn, NY
- 2023 Guernica la vineta universal, El Instituto Quevedo de las Artes del Humor, Madrid, Spain
- 2022 Ride Me to the Future, Wild Birds Music Venue, Brooklyn, NY
- 2021 SPACE:LIGHT 2021 Alternate Reality, Holocenter at Plaxall Gallery, Queens, NY
- 2021 Fire in the Opera House, 77ART Gallery, Rutland, VT
- 2019 Arrow of Time, Lazy Susan Gallery, New York, NY
- 2018 People On the News, Lazy Susan Gallery, New York, NY
- 2018 Straight Through the Wall, Projections in Brooklyn & Manhattan, NY
- 2017 Marked Urgent: An Exhibition in Defense of Free Press, Ground Floor Gallery, Brooklyn
- 2016 Food For the Moon, Standard Toykraft, Brooklyn
RESIDENCIES
- 2022 Wild Birds Artist in Residence, Brooklyn, NY, Duration: 4 month
- 2021 77ART, Rutland, VT, Duration: 1 month
- 2020 TV Projects, Gowanus, BK, Duration: 2 months
COLLECTIONS
- 2022 "Flowers and a Switchblade" in CalArts Teaching Moving Images Collection, Valencia, CA
LECTURES
- 2022 Artist Lecture at Johnny Carson Center of Emerging Media Arts at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE
PRESS, PUBLICATIONS
- 2023 "Sin titulo" in El Guernica, Humor Grafico en la Oscuridad, published by Instituto Quevedo
- 2022 "The Oppressor Among Us" in Deep South Magazine's "Southern Voice"
- 2022 "And the Whole Place Buzzed" in "Relevant Poetry" Zine published by Irrelevant Poetry
- 2021 "Christmas in the Aftertime" by Nic Koller, The New Yorker
- 2021 "Humanity’s Many Faces" Ortenda Arts Journal Vol.II No. III
- 2021 "Studies in Human Resilience" by Nic Koller, The New Yorker
- 2020 "Imagined Histories of Artists & their Parents" by Nic Koller, The New Yorker
- 2020 "Bianca Kennedy et Nic Koller apportent une touche d'esthétisme à la VR", Tracks - Arte TV
- 2020 "Field Notes: New Frontiers at Sundance Film Festival", Immerse
- 2020 "Sundance 2020 Dispatch: New Frontier Returns to its Non-Commercial Roots", ScreenAnarchy
- 2020 "Sundance Innovations: Extended Reality Takes a Leap Forward", No Film School
- 2020 "How to Make Yourself Useful to Our Future Robot Overlords" by Nic Koller, The New Yorker
- 2019 "Sundance's New Frontier announces works from 'ever changing' technology", Salt Lake Tribune
- 2019 "The Benefits of Being Between Jobs" by Nic Koller, The New Yorker
- 2019 "The Questions Constituents Want to Ask..." by Nic Koller, The New Yorker
- 2019 "Nic Koller: Memories distort, combine & simplify", Naked But Safe
- 2018 Create! Magazine featured in Selections by The Jealous Curator
- 2017 "Artist Creates Cubist Video Portraits", Prosthetic Knowledge
Contact
Email me:
hello@nickoller.com
Mailing List
Archived
- New Yorker Shouts Cartoons (2019-2020)
https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/nic-koller - Archived website (2018)
http://2018.nickoller.com/ - Themes, Soundscapes & Audio Collage (2014-2020)
https://soundcloud.com/nickoller - Building a Better Mask - Screensavers (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8szgSI1gXlkHu-gc8cqFwGGgcV7Oy5rC - Video Experiments & Early Video Collage (2010 - 2014)
https://www.youtube.com/user/ZestTechnology/videos - Archived Opera - Dolphins! (2011)
https://nickoller.bandcamp.com/ - Archived Opera - Spring Light (2008)
https://nickoller.bandcamp.com/album/spring-light
