Avery Z. Nelson
b. 1983, Rhinecliff, NY
Lives and works in New York, NY
Education
2009
MFA Painting, Columbia University, New York, NY
2006
BFA Art History, Visual Art Concentration Barnard College, Columbia University, New York, NY
Solo Exhibitions
2019
The Measure of a Boi, Rubber Factory, New York, NY
2018
Body Building, JDJ | The Ice House, Garrison, NY
2017
Summer Skin: Judy Ledgerwood + Zoe Nelson, Practise, Oak Park, IL (two-person)
From Off to On: Katy Kirbach + Zoe Nelson, Yellow Door Gallery, Des Moines, IA
Legacy Exhibition Series: New Work by Zoe Nelson, The Lighthouse Works Gallery, Fishers Island, NY
2015
Zoe Nelson: Recto/Verso, Cleve Carney Art Gallery, McAninch Arts Center at College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, IL
2014
Zoe Nelson, Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL
2012
Deep Cuts: Zoe Nelson, Lloyd Dobler Gallery, Chicago, IL
Dear Resonance + the Memory Hole: Bradley Biancardi + Zoe Nelson, Roots & Culture Contemporary Art Center, Chicago, IL
Selected Group Exhibitions
2019
Sower, Rubber Factory, New York, NY
Surreality, Crush Curatorial, New York, NY
2018
Now You See It, 1969 Gallery, New York, NY
RE_ARRANGE, Juxtapoz Projects, Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ
New Acquisitions Exhibition, DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, IL
Wish Fulfillment, Curated by SineProjects (Kristen Smoragiewicz/Alex Tam), 190 Cook Street, Brooklyn, NY
Love Letter to Miro, Fresh Window Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Cinnamon, Produce Model, Chicago, IL
2017
The Shape of Things, O’Connor Art Gallery, Dominican University, River Forest, IL
Zone of Totality, Fernwey Gallery, Chicago, IL
Terrain Biennial, Outdoor Installation in Hyde Park, Chicago, IL
Simultaneous Contrast, Durden and Ray, Los Angeles, CA
In Between Two Bodies, South of the Tracks Projects, Chicago, IL
2016
Never Far Away, LVL3 Gallery, Chicago, IL
A World Where Flowers Mean Something, ACRE, Chicago, IL
How Much Land, McCormick Gallery, Chicago, IL
XYZ, Greenpoint Terminal Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2014
Rocket Run, Abstraction from Chicago, Elder Gallery, Nebraska Wesleyan University, Lincoln, NE
Yr It: Zoe Nelson, Window Installation, Roots & Culture Contemporary Art Center, Chicago, IL
2013
Information Processors, Usable Space, Milwaukee, WI
2012
Material Assumptions, Columbia College Center for Book and Paper Arts, Chicago, IL
Issuing Forth, Robert Bills Contemporary, Chicago, IL
2011
Portrait of a Soul, NURTUREart Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Re-turn, McCagg Gallery, Barnard College, New York, NY
2010
The Triumph of Now, Volume Black, New York, NY X.x., Art 101 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2009
Settlements, Horse Trader Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
MFA Thesis Exhibition, Fisher Landau Center For Art, Long Island City, NY
2008
First-Year MFA Exhibition, The Nash Building, Columbia University, New York, NY
2006
Dix-Neuf, Centre International D'Art Contemporain, Pont-Aven, Brittany, France
Press
2018 Editor’s Pick, Art Maze Magazine, Summer Issue 8 (Summer 2018).
2017 Bailee Penski, “Artist Spotlight: Zoe Nelson,” Chicago Woman Magazine (December 4).
2016 Chris Miller, “Maximalist Paintings with Frenetic Color,” Newcity Art (recommended)
(November 21).
Kate Sierzputowski, INSIDE\WITHIN (interview) (January 5).
2015 Thea Nichols, “Critic’s Pick: Zoe Nelson,” Artforum (online) (November 5).
2015 Sam Schwindt, “DePaul art professor’s work explores feminist intersectionality,” The
DePaulia (November 5).
Bridget Kingston, “‘Recto / Verso slices its way into Cleve Carney Art Gallery,”
College of DuPage Courier (October 28)
Matt Morris, “Bonus Holes,” Catalogue Essay for Recto/Verso Exhibition at Cleve Carney
Art Gallery (October 18).
LVL3 Media, “Artist of the Week,” LVL3 Media (blog) (October 12).
2014 Stephanie Cristello, “Perpendicular Painting: Zoe Nelson at Western Exhibitions,”
New American Paintings (blog) (January 23).
Chris Miller, “Zoe Nelson/Western Exhibitions,” Newcity Art (recommended)
(January 20).
Kevin Blake, “Off the wall, through the surface, and around the painting: A
conversation with Zoe Nelson,” Bad at Sports (January 20).
Steven Zevitas, “Must-see Painting Shows: Jan. 2014,” Huffington Post (January 7).
Shane McAdams, “From the Curb in Milwaukee: Usable Space,” Bad at Sports (top
5 weekend picks) (October 25).
2013 Eric Crosby, New American Paintings: No. 107 Midwest Edition (editor’s pick) (August).
Stephanie Cristello, “Bradley Biancardi & Zoe Nelson/Roots & Culture,” Newcity
Art (recommended) (June 5).
2011 Julie Rodrigues Widholm, New American Paintings: No. 95 Midwest Edition (August).
Awards & Residencies
2019-2020 Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program, Brooklyn, NY
2019 Paint School, Shandanken Projects, New York, NY
2015 ACRE (Artists’ Cooperative Residency and Exhibitions), Steuben, WI
2014 OxBow, Saugatuck, MI
2014 OxBow Residency Award, Saugatuck, MI
2013 The Lighthouse Works, Fishers Island, NY
2012 Community Arts Assistance Program (CAAP) Grant, City of Chicago, IL
2008 Ellen Gelman Endowed Fellowship, Columbia University, New York, NY
2006 Pont-Aven School of Contemporary Art, Pont-Aven, France
2005 Yale University Summer Program, Norfolk, CT
2006 Josephine Paddock Post-Baccalaureate Fellowship, Barnard College, New York, NY
2005 Ellen Battell Stoeckel Fellowship,, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT
Public Collections
DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, IL
Jiménez - Colón Collection, Ponce, Puerto Rico
