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NICKI GREEN
KINGSTON, NY
BORN 1986, BOSTON, MA

EDUCATION:
2016-2018 University of California, Berkeley. Berkeley, CA.
MFA Art Practice
2007-2009 San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
BFA Sculpture
2005-­2007 Eugene Lang College, Parsons School of Design (The New School), New York, NY
Courses completed in psychology & fine arts, emphasis in sculpture

AWARDS/GRANTS/RESIDENCIES: 
2022 Award Winner, Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation
2022 Center for Contemporary Ceramics, California State University, Long Beach, Resident Artist
2022 Grantee, Nancy Graves Foundation
2021 Burke Prize Finalist, Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY
2021-2022 Visiting Artist Lecturer, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont CA
2019 San Francisco Arts Commission Individual Artist Commission
2019 Residency- Center for Contemporary Ceramics. California State University, Long Beach
2019 John Michael Kohler Arts/Industry Residency
2018 Headlands Center for the Arts fellowship
2018 UC Berkeley Eisner Award
2017 Residency- Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts. Newcastle, ME
2017 UC Berkeley Sam Francis Travel Grant
2016 Center for Cultural Innovation Quick Grant  
2015 San Francisco Arts Commission Individual Artist Commission
2014 Center for Cultural Innovation Quick Grant
2013 Museum of Transgender Hirstory and Art Awards: Unrecognized Artist of the Year: Hermit
2009 Schmidt Community Arts Fellowship. San Francisco, CA

SOLO EXHIBITION HISTORY:
2024 Nicki Green: Firmament. The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA
2024 Nicki Green: Eye of the Fountain. CULT Aimee Friberg, San Francisco, CA
2022 Manifesto of Fragility - A World of Endless Promise, La Biennale de Lyon. Museé Guimet, Lyon FR
2020 Between Washing and Unwithering, LaiSun Keane, Boston MA
2020 Pillars of Earth. Guerrero Gallery, San Francisco CA
2019 Splitting/Unifying. Et Al Gallery, San Francisco CA
2016 Breaking Dishes at Gene Compton’s. GLBT History Museum, San Francisco CA

GROUP EXHIBITION HISTORY:
2025
Reunited: Bay Area Candidate Artists from the National Museum of Women in the Arts’ Women to Watch Program 2018 to 2024. CCA Gallery, San Francisco CA
Mother/Land. Murmurs, Los Angeles CA
Aesthetics of Everyday Objects: The Plate. ATLA Works, Los Angeles CA
Traces. Kimball Art Center, Park City UT

2024
Histórias LGBTQIA+, Museu de Arte de São Paulo, São Paulo BR
Sentia Sexualis. ICA LA, Los Angeles CA
Objects USA 2024. R & Company, New York NY
All This Soft Wild Buzzing. The Wattis Institute, San Francisco CA
The Aesthetics of Everyday Objects: The Cup, ATLA Projects, Los Angeles CA
Mad Dash: 50 Years of Arts/Industry, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan WI
New Worlds: Women to Watch 2024, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC

2023
Discreet Histories, Anat Ebgi Gallery, Los Angeles CA
Making In-Between: Queer Clay, American Museum of Ceramics Art, Pomona CA
Pollen on a West Wind, Jason Jacques Gallery, New York NY
New Suns: Women to Watch, CCA Gallery, San Francisco CA
Barro Barrio, Guerrero Gallery, Los Angeles CA

2022
Nightmare Bathroom, Del Vaz Projects, Santa Monica CA
Manifesto of Fragility: The Many Lives and Deaths of Louise Brunet, La Biennale de Lyon. Museum of Contemporary Art, Lyon, Lyon FR
On Fire: Contemporary Trailblazers - 77th Scripps Annual. Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, Claremont CA
Physics & Fiction. CULT Aimee Friberg Exhibitions, San Francisco CA

2021
Les Flammes: L’Age de la Céramique. Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris FR
Contemporary Clay 2021. Bardo Arts Center, Western Carolina University Fine Art Museum, Cullowhee NC
New Time: Art and Feminisms in the 21st Century. Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley CA

2020
Omniscient: Queer Documentation in an Image Culture. Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, New York NY
The Burdens of History. Visual Arts Center, Richmond VA
The Body, The Object, The Other (Ceramics Biennial). Craft Contemporary, Los Angeles CA

2019
Don’t Touch My Circles. Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco CA
The Ordinary Instant. Headlands Center for the Arts, Marin CA
Queer California. Oakland Museum of California, Oakland CA
Transecologies. Hubbell Gallery, San Francisco CA

2018
Consciousness Razing: The Stonewall Re-Memorialization Project. New Museum NY
UnderSTOOD. Rockelmann & Partner Gallery. Berlin DE
Bay Area Now 8. Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco CA
Seven Places of the Mind. Fused Space, San Francisco CA
Way Bay 2. Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. Berkeley CA
Reading Room: The Feminist Art of Self Help. Root Division. San Francisco CA
Queer Biennial: What If Utopia. Navel Gallery. Los Angeles CA
MOTHA presents: The Veil of Veronica. Handwerker Gallery. Ithaca NY
The 48th Annual University of California, Berkeley MFA Graduate Exhibition. Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. Berkeley CA
Way Bay. Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. Berkeley CA
The Karaite Canon: Manuscripts and Ritual Objects from Cairo. The Magnes Collection, Berkeley CA

2017    
Sabbath: Dorothy Saxe Invitational. The Contemporary Jewish Museum. San Francisco CA
OUT/LOOK and the Birth of the Queer. GLBT History Museum. San Francisco CA
Fermenting Feminism. Broken Dimanche Press. Berlin DE
Intermediaries, Worth Ryder Gallery. Berkeley CA    

2016
Compton’s Cafeteria Riots 50th Anniversary Commemorative Mug Release. GLBT History Museum. San Francisco CA
ISO Queer Gods, Root Division. San Francisco CA
Chain Reaction 12, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery. San Francisco CA
James Gobel :: Nicki Green :: Ariel Goldberg, 2nd Floor Projects. San Francisco CA
(Signal). Smack Mellon. Brooklyn NY

2015
Hello, World! Artspace New Haven. New Haven CT
Radical Functions. SMAart Gallery. San Francisco CA
Posture Magazine. City Bird Gallery. New York NY
Five Pins Project. San Francisco CA
I AM, Waterloo Arts. Cleveland OH
Radical Functions. Dirt Palace. Providence RI
MOTHA presents: Transgender Hirstory in 99 Objects: Legends and Mythologies. ONE gay and lesbian archives, Los Angeles CA

2014
Trans.ient. Various locations. Los Angeles CA
Collect. Berkeley Art Center. Berkeley CA
Soapbox. Berkeley Art Center. Berkeley CA
Queer & Now. The Lexington Club, San Francisco CA

2013
Museum of Transgender Hirstory and Art: Salon. Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco CA
Museum of Transgender Hirstory and Art: Executive Director Talk. The Phoenix Hotel, San Francisco CA

2012
Best Revenge, The 22nd St. Coop. San Francisco CA
Uncensored: Queer Art and The Church. Leslie ­Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art Annex, New York NY
HairCake. The Tennis Court, Brooklyn NY

2010
Chronotopia. SomArts Gallery, San Francisco CA
Lopped Off. Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco CA
Fun-a-Day. Rock, Paper, Scissors Collective, Oakland CA
BodyMindGender. WE Artspace, Oakland CA

2009 Filthy Treats. Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco CA
2008 Girlfriends part Duh. Blankspace Gallery, Oakland CA

PUBLICATIONS & TEXTS:
2025
”Scientia Sexualis at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.” Ashton Phillips, Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles (CARLA). March 18
”The Punk Plate: Jenny Hata Blumenfield on Subverting Expectation and Sustaining Conversation between Craft and Contemporary Art.” Aleina Edwards, Ceramics Now. March 17
2024
”Nicki Green on Reimagining Jewish Rituals and Exploring Queer and Trans Embodiment.” Jelena Martinović. Loophole Magazine. Dec 8
“Nicki Green’s Mikveh Art Celebrates Sacred Trans Jewishness.” Evelyn Frick. Hey Alma. Sept 10
“‘Firmament’: Nicki Green Constructs Porous Spaces for Transformation.” Sarah Hotchkiss. KQED. Sept 10
“Trans and Jewish identities meld at CJM show.” Robert Nagler Miller. The J Weekly. Sept 6 2024
“Multidisciplinary artist Nicki Green explores fluidity, identity in ‘Firmament’ at the CJM.” J.L. Odom. Bay City News. Sept 5
“Two new exhibits, ‘Firmament’ and ‘Looted’ at the CJM this fall.” Sharon Anderson. Marina Times. Sept
“‘New Worlds’ is a sweeping art show mash-up of sci-fi and ancient myth.” Mark Jenkins. The Washington Post. May 22
2023
“Queering the Jewish Mikvah.” Isabella Segalovich. Hyperallergic. April 4
2022
”Nightmare Bathroom at Del Vaz Projects.” Vanessa Holyoak. Contemporary Arts Review Los Angeles. Nov 23
“Nicki Green : « L’histoire de la céramique est aussi l’histoire du genre, du travail et des corps »” Clovis Maillet. AOC Media. Nov 12
“Mikvehs, ‘Sex and the City’ and Judaica: How a sculptor is carving out space for queer and trans Jews.” Rudy Malcom. The Jewish Daily Forward. July 28.
2021
“Gender Alchemy is Transforming Art for the 21st Century.” Jori Finkel. The New York Times. Sept 8 “
Feature - Hybrid Vessels: Nicki Green’s Transmutations.” Jenni Sorkin. C-File Online. June 2
2020
“Laisun Keane opens a solo exhibition of works by transdisciplinary artist Nicki Green.” Art Daily. Oct 10
“Hybrid Vessels: Nicki Green’s Transmutations.” Jenni Sorkin. Catalog Essay for Between Washing and Unwithering, Laisun Keane 2020
“San Francisco Bay Area Craft Week Street Scene N°3 ⟶ Handmade in the Mission.” PJ Gubatina Policarpio. Craft Council. Sept 10
2019
“ARTFORUM Critic’s Picks: Nicki Green at Et. Al. Etc.” Monica Westin. ARTFORUM. October 7.
”Bay Area Ceramics Scene Fired Up in New Ways” by Charles Desmarais. SF Chronicle Datebook, July 24
”In Depth: Oakland Museum Explores ‘Untold Stories’ of LGBTQ History” by Keith Menconi. KCBS Radio, May 18
”Queer Stories Reign Supreme at the Oakland Museum of California.” Sara Radin. Broadly. March 22
”On Our Radar: Nicki Green.” Deborah Bishop. American Craft Magazine. Feb/March
2018
”Does NYC’s ‘Gay Liberation Monument Whitewash Stonewall? The New Museum Proposes Replacements.” Jarrett Earnest. Vulture. Nov 28
”Review: Bay Area Now 8 @ YBCA.” Aaron Habour. Journal. Aug 7
”Expansive, Exciting ‘Bay Area Now 8’ Lives Up to Its Name at YBCA.” Sarah Hotchkiss. KQES Arts. Sept 7
”Bay Area Now 8 Interviews: Nicki Green.” Aaron Habour. Journal. Aug 7
Best of Berkeley: Best Local Artist. Olivia Jerram. The Daily Californian. April 20
”#TorahForTheResistance: The Queer Mikveh Project.” Nicki Green and Rebekah Erev. JewSchool. Jan 14
”The Art World’s Strangest New Trend - Fermentation.” Siobhan Leddy. Artsy.net. Jan
2017
Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility. Ed. Reina Gosset, Eric A. Stanley & Johanna Burton. The MIT Press.
Fermenting Feminism. ed. Lauren Fournier. Laboratory for Aesthetics and Ecology Publishing. Copenhagen, Denmark.
"It's Almost As If We've Existed: Contemporary Art in LGBT Archives" Genevieve Flavelle. The Bookcase Micro Museum and Library. January
2016
"GLBT History Museum Commemorates 50th Anniversary of Compton's Cafeteria Riot" Win Mixter. Hoodline. Aug. 17.
“Bay Area Sculpture Right Now: Nicki Green’s Talismans of Queer Subtlety” Sarah Hotchkiss. KQED Arts. Aug. 3.
"12 LGBTQ Artists Reflect On What Pride Means To Them" Katherine Brooks & Priscilla Frank. The Huffington Post. June 27.
"'Chain Reaction' Proves There's at Least 21 Artists Left In San Francisco" Sarah Hotchkiss. KQED Arts. June 13.  
“Nicki Green’s Revolution” Adam Zucker. Rhino Horn Group. April 12.
"[2nd Floor Projects] // James Gobel :: Nicki Green :: Ariel Goldberg" Curiously Direct. Feb. 11.
"The Revolutionary Ceramics of Nicki Green." Jos Truitt. Feministing, Feb. 9
"Radiodress Queers the Ritual Bath in New Performance Project." Caoimhe Morgan-Feir. Canadian Art, Feb. 3.  
2015
“17 Visual Artists You Should Know in 2016.” Priscilla Frank & Katherine Brooks. The Huffington Post, Dec. 22. 
“Genderqueer and Trans Artists Breaking Down Barriers in Art.” Priscilla Frank. HuffPost Arts and Culture, Nov. 19. 
“Nicki Green: Queer Myth and Symbol.” Callie Garp. Fabulously Feminist, Nov. 3. 
"Sexy Shapes, The Apocalypse, and Impending Kineticism: Talking Basics with Nicki Green" Lisa Markuson. Posture Magazine, June. 
"Your 99 Transgender History Lessons." Mitch Kellaway. The Advocate, March 24. 
2014
"The Kitschy, Colorful, Queer World of Caitlin Rose Sweet." Annie Malamet. Posture Magazine, Sept. 25. “Museums & Galleries­ Picks: Soapbox.” Sarah Burke. East Bay Express, July 9. 
“Tranny Rage: The Politics of Mythologizing Transness.” Nicki Green. Dirty Looks NYC, June. 
"Conversations on Queer Health." Nicki Green and Sarah Lipkin-Lamay. Maximum Rock N Roll, January. 
2013
"An Open Letter Introducing the Museum of Transgender Hirstory and Art." Chris E. Vargas. Art Practical, April. 
"Craig Calderwood x Radar Spectacle." Michelle Tea. Radar Productions, May. 
2012 "Auntie Rex." Faggot Dinosaur, ed. Ali Liebegott. Writers Among Artists San Francisco. 
2011 "Turned Off: A Compendium of Tactics." Sadie Lune. Bend Over Magazine, Summer/Fall.

PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS:
2025
Princeton University- Artist Talk
2024
University of Washington-Artist Talk
2023
Cranbrook Academy of Art - Visiting Artist
2022
California State University, Long Beach - Artist Talk
2021
University of Colorado, Boulder - Visiting Artist
2020
Rhode Island School of Design - Artist Talk
2019
”But What Can Trans Do?: Discursive Art Making and Transdisciplinarity. Stanford University Feminist/Queer Colloquium - Lecture
Wiesenfeld Art Practice Lecture Series, UC Berkeley - Artist talk
2018
Queering the Archive. Denison University - Artist talk
SOFT BRICK. College Art Association, Critical Craft Forum: Voice of the Object - Lecture.
UC Santa Cruz - Artist Talk
Art and The Archive. The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life. Berkeley CA. - Panel
Jewish Queer Ritual Objects with Nicki Green and Merissa Nathan Gerson. The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco - Lecture
2016
Jewish Community Center East Bay - Contemporary Art and Jewish Themes - Artist talk
UC Berkeley - Contemporary American Art & Identity - Artist talk
2015
UC Berkeley - Advanced Ceramics: Deep Time of Ceramic Technology. Artist talk

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Victoria and Albert Museum, London, EN
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles CA
The Rose Museum of Art, Brandeis University, Waltham MA
John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan WI
Kohler Company, Kohler WI
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley CA
Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, Berkeley CA

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
2023-Present Assistant Professor of Ceramic Art, Alfred University
2020-2023 Adjunct Professor, California State University, Long Beach
2021-2022 Visiting Artist, Claremont College
2016-2020  Adjunct Professor & Graduate Student Instructor, University of California, Berkeley