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Tucker Nichols (born May 14, 1970) is an American artist. His artwork includes drawings, paintings, sculptures, books, in-gallery cinema and performance spaces [1] and large scale works on walls and storefront windows. He has a BA from Brown University and an MA from Yale University, both in the history of Chinese Painting. He lives near San Francisco.
Tucker Nichols' work has been featured at the Drawing Center in New York, Den Frie Museum in Copenhagen, The Denver Art Museum, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, [2] the Contemporary Jewish Museum, and the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco.
Nichols' drawings have been published in McSweeney's, J&L Books, The Thing Quarterly, Nieves Books, [3] and the op-ed pages of The New York Times. [4] Crabtree, a children's book by Jon and Tucker Nichols, was published by McSweeney's in 2013. [5] This Bridge Will Not Be Gray, a book by Dave Eggers and Tucker Nichols, was published by McSweeney's in 2015. [6]
Stage Presence, Theatricality in Art and Media [7] in 2012, a multimedia in-gallery cinema and performance space at the SF MOMA.
Flowers for Sick People, a multimedia project [8] in 2021, in which he creates flowers and then mails them across the world is featured at the SF MOMA.
He is represented by Zieher Smith & Horton in New York and Gallery 16 in San Francisco. [9] [10]
SFMOMA, San Francisco, Close to Home, Creativity in Crisis. 6 March - 5 September 2021. [11]
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