Bio
Gary
Nickard
Clinical Associate Professor
Bio
Gary Nickard is a conceptual artist committed to exploring the interstices between visual art and literature while engaging such diverse topics as science, philosophy, psychoanalysis and various historical knowledge systems. He works in photography, installation and various time-based media as well as electronic music. He joined the UB Art Department in 1995.
Gary Nickard was born in Toronto, Canada and emigrated to the United States over three decades ago. He received a Bachelor of Arts (78), Master of Arts Humanities (82), and a Master of Fine Arts (86) all from the University at Buffalo. He is currently enrolled in part-time postgraduate studies in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University at Buffalo.
Gary Nickard’s prior professional experience includes stints as Executive Director / Curator of CEPA Gallery Buffalo, NY (81-88), Associate Curator, Alternative Museum, New York, NY (88-90), Director, Burden Gallery Aperture Foundation, New York, NY (90-91) and Director of Programs / Curator, Artists Space, New York, NY (92-94). He has lectured widely across the United States and has published a number of critical essays in Afterimage, Exposure and Border Crossings Magazines (among others) and has done editorial work for Aperture Magazine.
Gary Nickard has exhibited at The Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Anderson
Gallery, Big Orbit Gallery, The Burchfield-Penney Art Center, CEPA
Gallery, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center and The University at Buffalo
Art
Gallery, all located in Buffalo, NY. He has also exhibited at The Alternative
Museum, Entropy Gallery and The Puffin Room Gallery, all located in
New York, NY. In addition he has exhibited at The Castellani Art Museum,
Lewiston, NY, The Fine Arts Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton,
NY,
Spaces Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio and YYZ Gallery in Toronto, Canada.
He has been Artist-in-residence at The George Eastman House, International
Museum of Photography, Rochester, NY and at Light Work, Syracuse University,
Syracuse, NY. Numerous exhibition catalogs of his work have been published
and reviews of his work can be found in Artforum and Arts magazines
(among
others). He is the recipient of numerous awards and grants and his
work is included in a number of public collections.
