CV
1988 Born in Chicago
Lives and works in New York
Education
2018 MFA, University of Illinois at Chicago
2015-16 School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2011 BFA, Pratt Institute
Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions
2021 Random Access, Disguising Radiance, Syracuse, NY with Katie Hubbell
2020 Ugly, Easily Suede, Chicago, IL
2019 Roots & Culture, Bad Taste, Chicago, IL; with Edward Cabral
Comfort Station, Cockaigne, Chicago, IL; with Malte Stiehl
2018 Paris London Hong Kong, It Gets Lonely in My Little Box, Chicago, IL
2017 Gallery 400 (Lobby Competition), It Had to be There, Chicago, IL
2015 Dawn Hunter Gallery, Anthony Cudahy/Nick Van Zanten, Brooklyn, NY; two-person show with Anthony Cudahy
2014 Creative Alliance, Not Too Close, Baltimore, MD; two-person show with Spencer Carmona
2013 Whitaker Gallery, Hood College, Projection, Frederick, MD
2012 Shoot the Lobster, It's Going Down, New York, NY
Broad Street Gallery, Econography, Hartford, CT
2011 Pratt Institute, Recent Work, Brooklyn, NY
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 All Street, Nothing But Trouble, New York, NY
2021 Hot Wheelz Festival 2021, virtual
2020 Heaven, Relic, Remedy, and Ritual, Chicago, IL
2018 Gallery 400, Ain't Easy to Love and Harder to Hold, Chicago, IL
2017 The Sub-Mission, Submissive Exhibitions, Chicago, IL
2015 Pratt Institute, Every Now + Again, Brooklyn, NY
Wassaic Project, Deep End, Wassaic, NY
Fjord, Autocomplete/Manual Delete, Philadelphia, PA
2014 Work Detroit Gallery, University of Michigan, Visualizing Data: The Art of Information, Detroit, MI
Trestle Projects, Grab Bag, Brooklyn, NY
2012 Shoot the Lobster, A La Carte, Minimal Art, New York, NY
Windsor Art Center, Rough Around the Edges, Windsor, CT
2011 Martos Gallery, We Regret to Inform You There is Currently No Space or Place For Abstract Painting, New York, NY
Hadas Gallery, First Annual Student Group Exhibition, Brooklyn, NY
Five Myles, Definitions, Brooklyn, NY
Front Room Gallery, Ubiquitous Spring 2011, Brooklyn, NY
2010 Pratt Institute, Ubiquitous Fall 2010, Brooklyn, NY
2009 Pratt Institute, Pratt in Venice, Brooklyn, NY
Residencies and Fellowships
2022 Monson Arts, Monson, ME
2019 Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY
2018 Institut für Alles Mögliche, Berlin, DE
Fabric Workshop & Museum Apprenticeship, Philadelphia, PA
2014 Wassaic Artist Residency, Wassaic, NY
Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
2013 VCCA, Amherst, VA
2011 Fifth Year Fellowship, Trinity College, Hartford, CT
Bibliography
Romanov Grave, 'One Question/One Answer: Nick Van Zanten,' September 27, 2021
Kaitlyn Albrecht, LVL3 Artist of the Week, February 24, 2021
S. Nicole Lane, Sixty Inches From Center, 'Heaven Gallery: Relic, Ritual, and Remedy',
August 22, 2020, online only
New American Paintings, Midwest Issue 125, August 2016.
Paddy Johnson, Art F City, 'Gloom, Doom, and Glory at the Wassaic Project',
June 18, 2015, online only
Arvolyn Hill, Millbrook Independent, 'The Wassaic Project Opens with "Deep End"', June 15, 2015
Chip Schwartz, Knight Arts, 'The unexpected allure of a prefab, mass produced world at Fjord,' January 15, 2015, online only
Susan Dunne, Hartford Courant, '"Rough Around the Edges" At Windsor
Art Center', July 16 2012
Casey Ruble, Art in America, 'We Regret to Inform You', September 2011, pg. 130
Art Observed, June 16, 2011, online only