 | This biographical article is written like a résumé .(November 2019) |
Jordan Nickel (born 1980), professionally known as POSE, is a contemporary US artist living and working in Chicago, Illinois. [1]
| This biographical article is written like a résumé .(November 2019) |
Jordan Nickel (born 1980), professionally known as POSE, is a contemporary US artist living and working in Chicago, Illinois. [1]
Known for fine art as well as murals and sculptures, Pose was named one of CNN’s Ones to Watch in 2014. [2] Shepard Fairey has described his work as “a hybrid of the aesthetics of pop art, graffiti, sign painting and comics that are all areas of his interest done in his own style.”
Pose has been featured numerous times in Juxtapoz Art & Culture Magazine and praised for his work's bubbling colors, hidden characters, and intricate design, making him a favorite amongst both graffiti enthusiasts and the fine art world. [3]
Pose earned a degree in painting from the Kansas City Art Institute in 2004. In 2005, he and artist/photojournalist KC Ortiz founded We Are Supervision, a creative agency that focuses on large-scale, hand-painted signs and billboard mural painting. [4] In 2013, he teamed with artist Revok to paint the historic Houston and Bowery Wall where Keith Haring and Juan Dubose once collaborated. [5]
Pose's sculptures and paintings have appeared in numerous books, magazines and films as well as galleries and private collections. He has traveled to Tahiti, Dubai, Melbourne, Spain, South Africa, Polynesia, Brazil and beyond to paint murals and exhibit his work [6] and is considered a name in Chicago's graffiti scene. [7] Pose is also a member of the West Coast artists’ collective Seventh Letter as well as MSK (Mad Society Kings), a world-renowned graffiti crew. [8]
2015 Work in Progress, WIP Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Bold Notion, Core Club, New York, NY
2014 Lemonade, Library Street Collective, Detroit, MI Public Matter, The Belt, Detroit, MI Volta w/ Jonathan Levine Gallery, New York, NY
2012 White Wash, Known Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2010 Rumble, Known Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Selected Duo Exhibitions 2016 Pose & Mel Ramos, Art Wynwood with Galerie Ernst Hilger, Miami, FL
2014 Pose & Revok, The Mine with Library Street Collective, Dubai, UAE
2013 Pose & Revok, uphill both ways, Jonathan Levine Gallery, New York, NY
2016 Art Southampton with Core Club, New York, NY Group Show, Library Street Collective, Detroit, MI
2015 Art Silicone Valley with Galerie Ernst Hilger Art Art Miami with Galerie Ernst Hilger Expo Chicago with Galerie Ernst Hilger Human Occult Powers, Circuit 12 Contemporary, Dallas, TX
2014 Cruel Summer, Primary, Jonathan LeVine Gallery, New York, NY Hello Kitty Con, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA Provocateurs, Curated by Shepard Fairey, Chicago, IL Art Basel Miami with Library Street Collective Z Exhibit, Library Street Collective, Detroit, MI
2013 Brutal, Lazarides Gallery, London Context Art Miami with Library Street Collective Out Tith The Old, Library Street Collective, Detroit, MI
2012 Art Wynwood with The GO Shop, Miami, FL Scope-Basel with Jonathan Levine Gallery, Switzerland
2010 Will Rise, Yves LaRoche Gallery, Montreal Small Gift, Curated by Roger Gastman, Miami FL
2009 Send Lawyers Guns and Money, Canvas LA, Los Angeles, CA
2008 Amass, Scion Space, Culver City, CA
2007 Letters First, Bread & Butter, Barcelona, Spain
2005 What's The Matter With Kansas, Rare, New York, NY Supereducated, Long Island City, NY Nova Young Art Fair, Chicago, IL 4 Pop, Gunnison Art Center, Gunnison, CO Scope Art Fair, Miami, FL
2004 Moving In Moving Out, Flex storage, Topeka, KS Boundary Creatures, Village Shalom, Overland Park, KS Ungood, Shaw- hofstra, Kansas City, MO Stray Show, Chicago, IL B.F.A. exhibition, H&R Block Artspace, Kansas City, MO Hover-Craft, Beth Allison Gallery, Kansas City, MO Kansas City Flatfile, H&R Block Artspace, Kansas City, MO
2003 Desperater, The Bank,(Your Face), Kansas City, MO Untitled show, The Apex Gallery, Kansas City, MO Kismet, The Old Post Office, Kansas City, MO The Language of the Railroad, Gallery Lumbardi, Austin, TX
2002 Seventeen on Seventeen, The Bench Gallery, Chicago, IL Boys VS Girls, The Next Space Gallery, Kansas City, MO And Or, The Bench Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
2016 Coney Island Art Walls, Curated by Jeffery Deitch, NY MICA, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
2015 Miami Dolphins Sun Life Stadium, Miami Gardens, FL The Belt, Detroit, MI Ono’u Tahiti, Papeete, French Polynesia
2014 Wynwood Walls, Miami, FL Hello Kitty Con, MOCA, Los Angeles, CA Columbia College, Chicago, IL LISA Project, New York, NY
2013 Z Project, Detroit, MI RVA Street Art, Richmond, VA Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit, MI Theaster Gates Arts Incubator, Chicago, IL Houston & Bowery, New York, NY City of Gold, Johannesburg, South Africa
2012 Wynwood Walls, Miami, FL Way out West, Gothenburg, Sweden Life After Dark, Melbourne, Australia Detroit Beautification Project, Detroit, MI RVA Street Art, Richmond, VA Artist Driven, Bangkok, Thailand Artist Driven, Hong Kong
2010 Performance, Bratislava, Slovakia Artist Driven, Montreal, Quebec Wall Lords, Seoul, South Korea MTN, Mexico City, Mexico
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