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    Nicky Enright is a multimedia artist, educator, DJ, and writer.

    Working with audio and visual media, his work explores global issues, including the
    construction of identity and nationhood, the theory and practice of borders, currency,
    and language.

    He earned a BFA from The Cooper Union and an MFA from Hunter College (both NYC).

    He has received numerous grants, residencies, and fellowships, and his art is exhibited     internationally. Born in Guayaquil, Ecuador, he lives and works in the Bronx, NY.

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nicky enright

EDUCATION

-Hunter College, NYC, MFA, 2008
-The Cooper Union, NYC, BFA, 1996


SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

-Human Impacts Institute, NYC, "Creative Climate Awards," 2023
-Bronx Artspace, NYC, "What on Earth Have You Done," 2023
-Bethany Arts Community, Ossining, NY, "Impact 2022: Art That Bears Witness," 2022
-NYBG, NYC, "Around the Table," 2022
-Lehman College Art Gallery, NYC, "Eco-Urgency: Now OR NEVER," 2021-2022
-Wave Hill, NYC, "Eco-Urgency: NOW or Never," 2021
-Former San Nicolò Convent of Venice Lido, Venice, Italy, "Venice Masked," 2021
-BronxArtSpace, NYC, "Giving Light," 2021
-Hunter East Harlem Gallery, NYC, "Sense Us 2020," 2020-2021
-Eastern Connecticut State University Gallery, "Racism: The Other American Pandemic," 2020
-Pelham Art Center, NYC, "IN/FLUX," 2019
-Longwood Arts Gallery, NYC, "Foreign/Familiar," 2019
-Latchkey Gallery, NYC, 100 Works, 2018 - 2019
-Areté, NYC, "The Art of Protest," 2018
-Smack Mellon, NYC, "Uproot," 2017
-Andrew Freedman Home, NYC, "State Property," 2017
-Longwood Arts Gallery, NYC, "Bronx:Africa," 2016
-School of Visual Arts, CP Projects Space, NYC, "Crushing Debt," 2016
-Bronx Artspace, NYC, "Speak Out," 2016
-Rush Arts Gallery, NYC, "The Art of Revolution," 2015
-Scope Art Fair, NYC, "The Time is Now," 2015
-Smack Mellon, NYC, "Respond," 2015
-Art in Odd Places, NYC, "Free," 2014
-Emerson Gallery Berlin, Berlin, Germany, "Ecuador trifft Berlin," 2014
-Bronx Museum, NYC, Armory Arts Week 2014
-Select Art Fair, Rush Arts Gallery, Art Basel, Miami, FL, 2013
-Westwood Gallery, NYC, "NYC 25," (with Curate NYC), 2013
-Bronx River Art Center, NYC, "MAPnificent," 2013
-ABC No Rio, NYC, "I'll Show You Mine...," 2013
-Proyector, Festival Internacional de Videoarte, Spain, France, Portugal, Mexico, 2013
-NURTUREart, NYC, "Cashing Out," 2013
-Rush Arts Gallery, NYC, "Dimensions Variable: Multiracial Identity," 2013
-No Longer Empty, NYC, "How Much Do I Owe You?," 2012-13
-University of Maryland UMUC Gallery, College Park, MD, "Vista," 2012
-The World Bank, Washington D.C., "About Change," 2012
-No Longer Empty, NYC, "This Side of Paradise," 2012
-Art Museum of the Americas, Washington D.C., "Ñew York," 2012
-Region 0, Latino Film Festival, NYC, then traveled to Spain, Mexico, Cuba, & Argentina, 2011-12
-Bronx Museum, NYC, "The First AIM Biennial," 2011
-Taller Boricua, NYC, "See What I Mean," 2010 - 2011
-Third Streaming, NYC, "Bite: Street-Inspired Art & Fashion," 2010
-Exit Art, NYC, "Global/National," 2010
-41 Cooper Square Gallery, The Cooper Union, NYC, "Rites of Passage," 2010
-Rush Arts Gallery, NYC, "Borderlines," 2009 - 2010
-Longwood Art Gallery, NYC, "Anthem," 2010
-Exit Underground, NYC, "America for Sale," 2009
-The Ice Box, Crane Arts, Philadelphia, PA, "Diálogo 365," 2009
-Times Square Gallery, Hunter College, "MFA Thesis Exhibition" 2008 - 2009
-Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, "Digital Art Expo," Los Angeles, CA, 2008
-Times Square Gallery, Hunter College, NYC, "MAs Select MFAs", 2007
-The Lab, NYC, "Macromix," audio-visual performances, various dates between May - September, 2007
-Lehman College Art Gallery, NYC, “Bronx Bound,” 2006
-Artists Space, NYC, group show, "Abaca Public Art Projects," 2001


SELECTED PUBLIC COMMISSIONS

-Lincoln Center & BK Public Library, "Anthem to US," 2024
-NY Botanical Garden, NYC, "Around the Table," 2022
-Kennedy Center Millennium Stage, Washington D.C., "Silk Road Remixed," Washington Performing Arts, 2015
-Performa 2009 at El Museo del Barrio, NYC
-The Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., 2008 Folklife Festival Commission in conjunction with NASA
-MTA Arts & Design, NYC, 2007, permanent faceted-glass installation for 225th street station
-NASA, Washington D.C., 2000


SELECTED AWARDS


-Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Residency Fellowship, Sweet Briar, VA, 2022
-Academy for Teachers, NYC, "Don Quixote Fellowship," Drawing for German (Berlin, Germany), 2022
-NY Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), Dept. of Cultural Affairs, NYC, City Artist Corps Grant, 2021
-A Blade of Grass Foundation, NYC, Fellow, 2013
-apexart, NYC, International Fellow, 2010
-AIM Fellow, Bronx Museum, NYC, 2010
-Bronx Council on the Arts, BRIO Award & Grant, NYC, 2009
-Atlantic Center for the Arts, Artist’s Residency & Fellowship, New Smyrna Beach, FL, 2001
-Longwood Arts Project, NYC, Studio Residency, 1999
-L’École Nationale Supérieure Des Arts Décoratifs, Full Scholarship, Paris, France, 1994-95


SELECTED PRESS & BOOKS

-The Nation, "You Know the Drill," 07/03/23
-NBC News, Using art to honor gun violence victims, 06/05/23
-Hunts Point Express, "Giant Climate Murals at BronxArtSpace," S. Nagpaul, 02/21/23
-Berliner Woche (1), Germany, "Aus Ecuador via New York," 09/09/22
-Berliner Woche (2), Germany, "Kunst im Lietzenseepark," 09/09/22
-The Riverdale Press, "It's 'Now or Never' for Lehman Gallery Art Show," Ethan Stark-Miller, 02/14/22
-The Riverdale Press, "Enright commands ocean of talent," Ethan Stark-Miller, 08/08/21
-CNN Español, "¡Que llegue a los oídos de los políticos!" 09/24/21
-Local Art Mix, "Giving Light: An Art Antidote to Gun Violence," March 16, 2021
-CoinDesk, "Money Reimagined; Money is a Meme," Michael Casey & Sheila Warren, 9/25/20
-25 Great Sentences and How They Got That Way, Geraldine Woods, Norton & Company Book, 2020
-Hartford Courant, "Racism: The Other American Pandemic," Susan Dunne, 07/31/2020
-Ante Mag
, In/Flux Review (cover image), September 29, 2019
-The Nation, "OppArt - In Drugs We Trust" June 7, 2019
-Contested City, Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani, University Of Iowa Press Book, 2019
-Magnetic City, Justin Davidson, Spiegel & Grau - Penguin Random House Book, 2017
-The apexart Fellowship: An Experiment in Vertical Cultural Integration, apexart book, 2017
-ASAP Journal, Review of Art in Odd Places 2016: RACE, Corey Dzenko, March 2, 2017
-Unfinished Memories / 30 Years of Exit Art, Steidl Books, 2016
-MarketWatch, "When Art Imitates Life," J. Berman, 2/5/16
-NY Daily News, "Longwood Arts Project celebrates Africa in Bronx," J. Mccallister, 1/24/16
-The Riverdale Press, "Show explores borough's ties to Africa," W. Speros, 1/28/16
-Hyperallergic, "A Virtual Quilt of Remembrance...," L. Mallonee, 4/27/15
-The New York Times, "Raging at Racism, From Streets to Galleries," Holland Cotter, 1/22/15
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The Wall Street Journal (article), "A New York Artist Who Makes Money - Literally," M. Casey, 11/11/14
-The Wall Street Journal (video), "What Is Money? An Artist’s Make and Take," 11/11/14
-New York's Underground Art Museum, MTA Arts & Design, Monacelli Press Book, 2014
-Artist Files, A Blade of Grass Book, 2013
-Whitehot Magazine,
"No Longer Empty at The Andrew Freedman Home," Rebecca Rothberg, May 2012
-Art Practical,
"From the Bronx: This Side of Paradise," Christine Wong Yap, Spring 2012
-The Riverdale Press,
"The case of the missing Globos," Kate Pastor, 5/30/12
-Hyperallergic, "The Bronx's Favorite Abandoned Mansion Becomes a Home for Art," Howard Hurst, 5/3/12
-arts.observer,
"Key Component: Pianos are Making a Play in the Visual Art World," 4/26/12
-arts.observer,
"This Side of Paradise," 4/10/12
-Huffington Post,
"The Cultural Landscape Architects: Yona Backer," Julie Chae, 3/29/12
-New York Times, "Uptown Palazzo Project," Randy Kennedy, 3/19/12
-Washingtonian Magazine,
Art Review: “Ñew York” at the Art Museum of the Americas, Beth Shook, 3/9/12
-Performa 09: Back to Futurism
, by Roselee Goldberg, Performa Book, 2011
-HyperAllergic, "Bronx Calling: The First AIM Biennial," Allison Meier7/18/11
-Forbes Magazine, “Selling An America No One Wants To Buy,” by Sarah Wolff, 10/23/09
-NASA/ART: 50 Years of Exploration, Abrams Art Book, 2008
-Along The Way: MTA Arts for Transit, Sandra Bloodworth, Monacelli Press Book, 2006
-New York Post, "Hot Picks: The Art of Protest," 12/01/04
-The New York Times, "Artist Visual Sampling," The City, 12/19/99
-The New York Times, "Way Up in the Bronx A Hardy Spirit Blooms," Holland Cotter, 5/7/99


SELECTED TEACHING

-Riverdale Country School, NYC, Projects in Contemporary Art, Life Drawing, Studio Art, 2010 - Present
-Museum of Modern Art, NYC, The Art of Digital Culture, 2009
-Horace Mann School, NYC, initiated the Multimedia program, Drawing&Painting, 2001 - 03, & ‘04 – 08
-Hunter College, NYC, Advanced Drawing, T.A. with Prof. Andrea Blum, 2007
-Fieldston School, NYC, D&P, Printmaking, Life Drawing, Multimedia Art, 2003 – 2004
-The Cooper Union, NYC, Drawing, 2000
-Henry Street Settlement, NYC, Painting, 1997- ‘98
-The Cooper Union Saturday Program, NYC, Portfolio-Preparation, 1992 - ‘96
-The School for the Physical City (New Visions School), NYC, Studio Art, 1993 - ‘96

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