Nicolai Howalt

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Nicolai Howalt (born 1970) is a Danish visual artist and contemporary photographer. [1]

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Nicolai Howalt was born in Copenhagen and graduated from Denmark's Photographic Art School Fatamorgana in 1992. Howalt's work has documentary references, operating at the intersection of conceptual photography and installation.

Howalt has had solo exhibitions at Esbjerg Kunstmuseum; Bruce Silverstein Gallery, New York; Martin Asbæk Gallery, Copenhagen and Center for Fotografi, Stockholm among others. He has also exhibited at Statens Museum for Kunst, ARoS and Skagens Museum in Denmark, and in Korea, China, US, Germany, Lithuania, Poland, France, Finland, England, Hungary and Turkey.

In 2001, Howalt published the book 3x1 with Gyldendal Publishers. Boxer was published in 2003 by ArtPeople. He has received a series of grants from the Hasselblad Foundation, The Danish Ministry of Culture, The Danish Arts Foundation and The Danish Arts Council.

Howalt has a long-term collaboration with the Danish artist Trine Søndergaard. They have published books including How to Hunt, with ArtPeople in 2005 and Hatje Cantz in 2010, and TreeZone with Hassla Books in 2009, and exhibited together in Sweden, Germany, Spain, France, Canada, Finland, US, China and Korea. Their collaborative works have received awards including the Special Jury Prize at Paris Photo 2006 and The Niels Wessel Bagge's Foundation for the Arts Award in 2008.

Howalt is a member of Kunstnersamfundet and The Danish Association of Visual Artists.

Solo exhibitions

Solo exhibitions: Trine Søndergaard & Nicolai Howalt

Group exhibitions

Group exhibitions: Trine Søndergaard & Nicolai Howalt

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Publications

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