Nicki Green

Nicki Green

1986

Born in Boston, MA

Lives and works in San Francisco, CA

Education

2016-2018

University of California, Berkeley. Berkeley, CA. MFA Art Practice

2007-2009

San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA BFA Sculpture

2005-2007

Eugene Lang College, Parsons School of Design (The New School), New York, NY

Awards/Grants/Residencies

2022

Award Winner, Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation

Center for Contemporary Ceramics, California State University, Long Beach, Resident Artist

Grantee, Nancy Graves Foundation

2021

Burke Prize Finalist, Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY

2021-2022

Visiting Artist Lecturer, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont CA

2019

San Francisco Arts Commission Individual Artist Commission

Residency- Center for Contemporary Ceramics. California State University, Long Beach

ohn Michael Kohler Arts/Industry Residency

2018

Headlands Center for the Arts fellowship

UC Berkeley Eisner Award

2017

Residency- Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts. Newcastle, ME

UC Berkeley Sam Francis Travel Grant

2016

Center for Cultural Innovation Quick Grant

2015

San Francisco Arts Commission Individual Artist Commission

2014

Center for Cultural Innovation Quick Grant

2013

Museum of Transgender Hirstory and Art Awards: Unrecognized Artist of the Year: Hermit

2009

Schmidt Community Arts Fellowship. San Francisco, CA

Solo Exhibitions

2023

CULT Aimee Friberg Exhibitions, San Francisco, CA

2022

Manifesto of Fragility – A World of Endless Promise, La Biennale de Lyon. Museé Guimet, Lyon FR

2020

Between Washing and Unwithering, LaiSun Keane, Boston, MA

Pillars of Earth. Guerrero Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2019

Splitting/Unifying. Et Al Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2016

Breaking Dishes at Gene Compton’s. LGBT History Museum, San Francisco, CA

Group Exhibitions

2023

Pollen on a West Wind, Jason Jacques Gallery, New York NY

New Suns: Women to Watch, CCA Gallery, San Francisco CA

Barro Barrio, Guerrero Gallery, Los Angeles CA

2022

Nightmare Bathroom, Del Vaz Projects, Santa Monica CA

Manifesto of Fragility: The Many Lives and Deaths of Louise Brunet, La Biennale de Lyon. Museum of Contemporary Art, Lyon, Lyon FR

On Fire: Contemporary Trailblazers – 77th Scripps Annual. Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, Claremont CA

Physics & Fiction. CULT Aimee Friberg Exhibitions, San Francisco CA

2021

Les Flammes: L’Age de la Céramique. Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris FR

Contemporary Clay 2021. Bardo Arts Center, Western Carolina University Fine Art Museum, Cullowhee NC

New Time: Art and Feminisms in the 21st Century. Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley CA

2020

Omniscient: Queer Documentation in an Image Culture. Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, New York NY

The Burdens of History. Visual Arts Center, Richmond VA

The Body, The Object, The Other (Ceramics Biennial). Craft Contemporary, Los Angeles CA

2019

Don’t Touch My Circles. Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco CA

The Ordinary Instant. Headlands Center for the Arts, Marin CA

Queer California. Oakland Museum of California, Oakland CA

Transecologies. Hubbell Gallery, San Francisco CA

2018

Consciousness Razing: The Stonewall Re-Memorialization Project. New Museum, NY

UnderSTOOD. Rockelmann & Partner Gallery. Berlin, DE

Bay Area Now 8. Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA

Seven Places of the Mind. Fused Space, San Francisco, CA

Way Bay 2. Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. Berkeley, CA

Reading Room: The Feminist Art of Self Help. Root Division. San Francisco, CA

Queer Biennial: What If Utopia. Navel Gallery. Los Angeles CA

MOTHA presents: The Veil of Veronica. Handwerker Gallery. Ithaca, NY

The 48th Annual University of California, Berkeley MFA Graduate Exhibition.

Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. Berkeley, CA

Way Bay. Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. Berkeley, CA

The Karaite Canon: Manuscripts and Ritual Objects from Cairo. The Magnes Collection, Berkeley, CA

2017

Sabbath: Dorothy Saxe Invitational. The Contemporary Jewish Museum. San Francisco, CA

OUT/LOOK and the Birth of the Queer. GLBT History Museum. San Francisco, CA

Fermenting Feminism. Broken Dimanche Press. Berlin, DE

Intermediaries, Worth Ryder Gallery. Berkeley, CA

2016

(Signal). Smack Mellon. Brooklyn, NY

James Gobel :: Nicki Green :: Ariel Goldberg, 2nd Floor Projects. San Francisco, CA

Chain Reaction 12, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery. San Francisco, CA

ISO Queer Gods, Root Division. San Francisco, CA

Compton’s Cafeteria Riots 50th Anniversary Commemorative Mug Release. GLBT History Museum. San Francisco, CA

2015

Hello, World! Artspace New Haven. New Haven, CT

Radical Functions. SMAart Gallery. San Francisco, CA

Posture Magazine. City Bird Gallery. New York, NY

Five Pins Project. San Francisco, CA

I AM, Waterloo Arts. Cleveland, OH

Radical Functions. Dirt Palace. Providence, RI

Radical Functions. Dirt Palace. Providence, RI

MOTHA presents: Transgender Hirstory in 99 Objects: Legends and Mythologies. ONE gay and lesbian archives, Los Angeles, CA

2014

Queer & Now. The Lexington Club, San Francisco, CA

Soapbox. Berkeley Art Center. Berkeley, CA

Collect. Berkeley Art Center. Berkeley, CA

Trans.ient. Various locations. Los Angeles, CA

2013

Museum of Transgender Hirstory and Art: Salon. Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA

Museum of Transgender Hirstory and Art: Executive Director Talk. The Phoenix Hotel, San Francisco, CA

2012

Best Revenge, The 22nd St. Coop. San Francisco, CA

Uncensored: Queer Art and The Church. Leslie ­Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art Annex, New York, NY

HairCake. The Tennis Court, Brooklyn, NY

2010

Chronotopia. SomArts Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Lopped Off. Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Fun-a-Day. Rock, Paper, Scissors Collective, Oakland, CA

BodyMindGender. WE Artspace, Oakland, CA

2009

Filthy Treats. Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2008

Girlfriends part Duh. Blankspace Gallery, Oakland, CA