Nick Nelson was born in Carrollton, Georgia in 1978, one of nine children. He began his artistic life in Americus, Georgia, a freshman at Georgia Southwestern State University. There he studied painting and drawing, focusing mainly on the human figure. Feeling that the human figure could not fully express his artistic vision, Nelson became dissatisfied with figurative painting and began to investigate representation itself as subject matter. This exploration led him to his current work, collage and assemblage created from found objects and nontraditional materials such as fruit. Nelson’s current work focuses on aesthetic experiences attached to ordinary objects and the role that intuition plays in these aesthetic experiences. His work also explores themes centered on humanity’s search for order and meaning within a seemingly chaotic and meaningless universe. Nelson has returned to the human figure in recent sculptures, basing their compositions on his own proportions.

Nick Nelson graduated with a BFA from Georgia Southwestern State University in 2000. He went on to earn an MFA from Georgia Southern University in Statesboro, Georgia where he taught observational drawing and two-dimensional design for two years. He currently works in the Education Department of the Albany Museum of Art in Albany, Georgia. Nelson has shown his work regionally and nationally and is a member of the Stillmoreroots Group, an artist collective that exhibits site-specific installation in non-traditional spaces.

EDUCATION
2004 Master of Fine Art, Georgia Southern University,
Statesboro, Georgia
2000 Bachelor of Fine Art, Georgia Southwestern State University, Americus, Georgia

RECENT EXHIBITIONS

2005
“Art in the Woods”, Stillmore, Georgia
“”, Russell Hall Gallery, Middle Georgia College, Cochran, Georgia
“6 X 6 Miniature Exhibition”, Third Floor Gallery, Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights, Kentucky
“Stillmoreroots”, The Kalmanson Gallery, Emanuel Arts Council Center, Swainsboro, Georgia
Group Exhibition, Office of the Board of Regents, University System of Georgia, Revenue Building, Atlanta, Georgia

2004
Group Exhibition, Office of the Board of Regents, University System of Georgia, Revenue Building, Atlanta, Georgia
“Faculty Exhibition”, Gallery 303, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, Georgia
“Between Order and Chaos”, Gallery 303, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, Georgia
“Art in the Woods”, Stillmore, Georgia
“The Holganauts”, D.K. Arts, Statesboro, Georgia
“Stillmoreroots”, S and L Gallery, Savannah, Georgia

2003
“Sinners and Saints”, Georgia Southern University Performing Arts Center, Statesboro, Georgia
“Stillmore Roots Group”, D.K. Arts, Statesboro, Georgia
“Stillmore Roots Group”, Contemporary Art Exchange, Macon, Georgia
“Texas National”, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, Texas
“Art in the Woods”, Stillmore, Georgia

2002
“Georgia National Fair Fine Art Competition”, Georgia National Fair, Perry, Georgia
“LAL Summer Open: The Healing Power of Art”, Lexington Art League, Lexington, Kentucky
“Group 306”, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, Georgia

2001
Group Exhibition, Office of the Board of Regents, University System of Georgia, Revenue Building, Atlanta, Georgia
“Mixed Media III”, Period Gallery, Omaha, Nebraska
“Mixed Media by Nick Nelson”, Neva Lomason Library, Carrollton, Georgia
“Alumni Exhibition”, Georgia Southwestern State University, Americus, Georgia