Nick Drain.

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Education

BFA New Studio Practice, Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design, 2020

Norfolk School of Art, Yale University, 2019

Exhibitions

2021

Collective Interventions: On Past, Present and Future Topographics, University of Arkansas Fine Arts Gallery

Bridge Work 06, UW Osh Kosh Allen Priebe Gallery, Osh Kosh, WI

All We Carry, PrattMWP in collaboration with the Strangefire Collective, Utica, NY

Roots Run Deep: A Contemporary Survey of African American Hair Culture, Brewhouse Association, Pittsburgh, PA

2020

Bridge Work 06, VAR Gallery, Milwaukee WI

Alice Wilds Artists for Action: In Support of the Black Lives Matter Movement, The Alice Wilds, Milwaukee, WI

BFA Thesis Exhibition (Virtual), Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design, Milwaukee, WI

47th Annual Juried Show, UWM Union Art Gallery, Milwaukee, WI

2019

Through the Static, Between Two Galleries, Milwaukee, WI

In Plain Sight (Solo), Genesis gallery, Milwaukee, WI

SPE Midwest Members Juried Exhibition, Society for Photographic Education Midwest Chapter, Milwaukee, WI

Alternative Love, Facilitating Situations, Milwaukee, WI

2018

MIAD NSP Junior Project Exhibition, Meltwater Studios, Milwaukee, WI

EM-BODY, Genesis Gallery, Milwaukee, WI

Emerging Vision, Biennial Student Show, Colorado Photographic Arts Center, Denver, CO

ICP Projected: Talk In Images— Body, International Center of Photography, New York City, NY

College Creative Night, After Gallery, Milwaukee, WI

Press

2021

Interview: Nick Drain, Black Is Magazine

Hollywood Has the ‘Black List’ for Undiscovered Screenplays. Now, Photography Has a ‘Silver List’ for Up-and-Coming Photographers, Artnet News

Introducing the Inaugural Silver List, Featuring 47 Exciting Contemporary Photographers Whose Work You Just Have to See, Vanity Fair

2020

Nick Drain, Cumulus Photo (now defunct)

Photographers on Photographers: Nick Drain in Conversation with Alanna Fields, Lenscratch

Q&A: Nick Drain, Strangefire Collective

Blackness, Images & the Space Between, Sixty Inches from Center

2019

2019 Lenscratch Student Prize: Honorable Mention: Nick Drain , Lenscratch

Junior Project Exhibition Catalogue, Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design

Interview: ‘Episode 6: Nick Drain’, PG & Friends Podcast

Published Writing

2021

Two Rules on Getting Dressed, comissioned for My Perfect Environment exhibition, Chicago, IL

I have the sound of morning dew when I miss being haunted, commissioned for WIDE EYED by Jon Horvath

Things I Took From My Father by Teena Wilder, Bunker Review Hand-Off Series — Bunker Projects, Pittsburgh, PA (editor)

2020

What Are You Looking At?, Bunker Review Hand-Off Series — Bunker Projects, Pittsburgh, PA

Residencies

2021

Writer's Residency, Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA (upcoming)

ACRE, ACRE Projects, Steuben, WI

2020

Bridge Work 06, Plum Blossom Initiative, Milwaukee, WI

2019

Yale Norfolk School of Art

Programming & Talks

2021

Bunker Talks: Nick Drain in Conversation with Harrison Kinnane Smith, Bunker Projects, Pittsburgh, PA

2020

From Self-Portraiture to Sousveillance, Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design, Milwaukee, WI

From Self-Portraiture to Sousveillance, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR

Nite Skool #1, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR

Virtual Discourse: Nick Drain, Lillstreet Photography, Chicago, IL

2019

Do You See Me? How Do You See Me? What Do You See When You Look At Me?: A Discussion Featuring Lois Bielefeld, Nick Drain, Zora Murff, & Sasha Phyars-Burgess, In conjunction with the exhibition In Plain Sight, Genesis, Milwaukee, WI

Things I Took from My Father, A performance by Teena Wilder in conjunction with the exhibition In Plain Sight, Genesis, Milwaukee, WI

Curatorial

2020

Housefire, Cumulus Photo, Lincoln, NE (Publication and Online Exhibition)

Awards

2020

Best In Show— 47th Annual Juried Show, UWM Union Art Gallery

2019

2019 Lenscratch Student Prize Honorable Mention

Ellen Battell Stoeckel Fellowship, Yale University

2018

Under the Wings Mentee, Milwaukee Art Museum Lakefront Festival of Art