UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS

5-50 Gallery, LIC, NYC, June, 2024

WICK, Minneapolis, MN, June 22, 2024

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BIO

Guy Nelson is an artist who explores the natural world and its relationship with human needs and challenges. His work focuses on the shared environment of plants and humans and emphasizes the importance of balance and preservation. Nelson uses acrylic on canvas and linen as his preferred mediums, and he also incorporates acrylic spray paint to create a surface that emulates the outdoors, which he finds atmospheric and mysterious. When he's not in the studio, Nelson is involved in conservation and land stewardship, planting trees, managing a deciduous forest, and maintaining over 100 acres of native grasses.

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Education

2016, MFA, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn NY (with Honors)

Awards

2005 Minnesota Artist Initiative Fellowship

Solo Exhibitions

2021 Phantom Landscapes, ChaShaMa, NY, NY

2017 Run For Your Life, Transmitter Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2016 MFA Thesis Exhibition: wood lookers, DeKalb Galleries, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY

2013 Understory, Fore and Aft Projects, Georgetown, ME

2011 Individuals and Collectivists, UICA, Grand Rapids, MI

2005 Looking is Stealing, Soo Visual Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN

Selected Group Exhibitions

2023 A Lack of Discourse; Visual Lamentations, A-Mill Gallery, Minneapolis, MN

2019 Benevolent Light, Benevolent Life? Curated by Lauren Hirshfield, Field Projects, NY

2018 Bite Me, Brunette Gallery, Woodstock, NY

2017 Fine Arts Alumni Exhibition, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY

2016 Locus of Control, Metropolitan Structures at The Java Project, Brooklyn, NY

2015 alive tonight, Pratt Institute, Dekalb Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

Reclaim Reboot Renew, The Royal, Brooklyn, NY

Middle States and NASAD 10-Year Accreditation Exhibition, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY

2014 Matter to Scale, Peninsula Art Space, Brooklyn, NY

Le Show Des Amis, Show Room, Brooklyn, NY

2013 Post Cataclysm, Vera & Melchor, NY, NY

You Don’t Owe Me A Thing, Small Black Door, Queens, NY

Rock Street 2013, Rock Street, Brooklyn, NY

2012 The New Brutalists, Parallel Art Space, Queens, NY

Place, Angle, Position, Heskin Contemporary, New York, NY

Return to Clonmacnoise, Rourke Art Gallery, Moorhead, MN

2011. Feed 2011, A Biennial, 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA

Beast, Brooklyn Artist Gym, Brooklyn, NY

Let them Eat Cake, Rourke Gallery, Moorhead, MN

2009 Mimics and Mutualists, Soapbox gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2008. 22nd Annual International, Visual Art Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ

Remembering Dakota, North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND

2007 SlideLuck PotShow, Soo Visual Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN

Glamour Shots, First Amendment Arts, Minneapolis, MN

2006 After Nature, Bethel University - 9th Street Gallery, Saint Paul, MN

2005 A-List, Soo Visual Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN