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