Tucker Nichols

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Tucker Nichols (born May 14, 1970) is an American artist. His artwork includes drawings, paintings, sculptures, books, in-gallery cinema and performance spaces^[1] and large scale works on walls and storefront windows. He has a BA from Brown University and an MA from Yale University, both in the history of Chinese Painting. He lives near San Francisco.

Projects[edit]

Tucker Nichols' work has been featured at the Drawing Center in New York, Den Frie Museum in Copenhagen, The Denver Art Museum, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,^[2] the Contemporary Jewish Museum, and the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco.

Nichols' drawings have been published in McSweeney's, J&L Books, The Thing Quarterly, Nieves Books,^[3] and the op-ed pages of The New York Times.^[4] Crabtree, a children's book by Jon and Tucker Nichols, was published by McSweeney's in 2013.^[5] This Bridge Will Not Be Gray, a book by Dave Eggers and Tucker Nichols, was published by McSweeney's in 2015.^[6]

Stage Presence, Theatricality in Art and Media^[7] in 2012, a multimedia in-gallery cinema and performance space at the SF MOMA.

Flowers for Sick People, a multimedia project^[8] in 2021, in which he creates flowers and then mails them across the world is featured at the SF MOMA.

He is represented by Zieher Smith & Horton in New York and Gallery 16 in San Francisco.^[9][10]

Exhibitions[edit]

SFMOMA, San Francisco, Close to Home, Creativity in Crisis. 6 March - 5 September 2021.^[11]

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• Official website
• Anonymous Postcard