NILS FOLKE ANDERSON
Born 1971, Washington, DC
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY
Education
2007
Hunter College, MFA
1994
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, BFA
Solo Exhibitions
2013
Discrete Aperture, Circle Gallery, University of Georgia Athens
2011
Bannock & California, Dikeou Collection, Denver, CO
2009
After Before and After, Phillips De Pury & Co, New York, NY
2006
MFA Thesis Exhibition, Hunter College Times Square Gallery, New York, NY
Selected Group Exhibitions
2015
Prime Matter, Laholm Drawing Museum, Laholm, Sweden
Groundswell Benefit, Wythe Hotel
2014
Metaplay, Galerie kritiku, Prague
Metaplay, Galerie kritiku, Prague
Summer Love, Front Room, NYC
Prime Matter, Senascape, NYC
Danspance Benefit, Danspace, NYC
2013
Come Together, Industry City, Brooklyn, NY
Fine Lines, Rhombus Space, Brooklyn, NY
Groundswell Benefit, Christie’s
Young Collectors, Leila Heller, New York, NY
2012
Dead In Summer, Site95, New York, NY
Swap Meet, ArtPace, San Antonio, TX
Four by Four, Victoria H. Myhren Gallery, Denver University, CO
Honey Me To Tears, Honey Space, New York, NY
2010
Behind the Light, Nathan Bernstein, New York, NY
Domestic City, Kidd Yellin, Brooklyn, NY
Out of Line, Slag Gallery, New York, NY
Borderland Abstraction, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE
2008
Geometry as Image, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY
8 1/2 x 11 A4, James Fuentes, New York, NY
Object Salon, Honey Space, NY
Watermill Benefit, Robert Wilson Watermill Center, NY
Issue Project Room Benefit, Phillips De Pury & Co, New York, NY
2007
Red Badge of Courage, National Newark Building, Newark NJ
Watermill Benefit, Robert Wilson Watermill Center, NY
2005
MA’s Select MFA’s, Hunter College Times Square Gallery, New York, NY
Art Party 2005, Whitney Museum of Art, New York, NY
Coalition For The Homeless Benefit, Sotheby’s, New York, NY
2004
Alice Neel Documentary Benefit, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY
2001
Our Perceptions/Urban Reality, Artists Space, New York, NY
2000
Artistically Fashionable Lot 61, New York, NY
In-Sites IV, Abrons Art Center, Henry Street Settlement, New York
Projects and Public Commissions
2015
Disgraced, Ayad Akhtar, Lyceum Theater
2014
Disgraced, by Ayad Akhtar, Bush Theater, London
2012
Disgraced, Ayad Akhtar, Lincoln Center III
2012
Disgraced, Ayad Akhtar, American Theater Company Chicago
2012
Untitled (permanent indoor public sculpture), Stage Theater an der Elbe, Hamburg, Germany
2012
Pioneers Gate (permanent outdoor public sculpture), Ilford, UK, Empire Property Group International
Awards
2006
Thomas Apicella Memorial Award, Hunter College
2006
Nancy Ashton Memorial Prize, Hunter College
2006
The Arthur and Judy Zankel Gift, Hunter College
Bibliography
2013
Zing Magazine #23, “Rolling Squares and Series Links”
Burnaway, “In Conversation with Nils Folke Anderson”
2012
Ilford Recorder, “Inspiring 24’ Sculpture”
Art Nerd New York, NFA in the UK
2011
Westword, “Dikeou Collection Opens a Pop-Up Exhibit”
Adobe Airstream, “Nils Folke Anderson at Dikeou Pop-Up”
ARTnews, “Behind the Light”
2010
zingmagazine.com, “zingchats with Nils Folke Anderson”
accessibleartny.com, Nils Folke Anderson Studio Visit
Mica Medoff, Drawing Center News/Blog, “Out of Line”
Michael J. Krainak, Omaha Weekly Reader, “Border Crossings”
2009
Barbara Stehle, ArtPress, “High Line”
The New York Times, T Magazine Online, “After Before and After” (video)
Lindsay Pollack, Art Market Views, “Phillips de Pury Windows…”
Lee Rosenbaum/CultureGrrl, Artsjournal.com, “A View From the Highline”
Culturebot.org, “Five Minutes with Nils Folke Anderson” (video interview)
Minus Space, “After Before and After”
Artnet.com, “New Art Show for High Line”
More Intelligent Life, “Another New York Peep Show”
Artdaily.org, “After Before and After”
2008
The New Yorker, “Geometry as Image”
The New York Times, Roberta Smith, “Listings”
Simplistic Art, “Geometries”
The Imagist, “Geometry as Image: Robert Miller Gallery”
Minus Space, “Geometry as Image”
Gotham Gal, “Nils Folke Anderson”
2007
Artnet.com, Walter Robinson, “Weekend Update”