Current
Objects of the Mind
Opens May 2, 2009
Mineral, Tacoma, WA
About the show in The News Tribune
<Rope of 8 Paintings from the show
at left.

PDX+Pulliam
Opening June 4
Pulliam Gallery, Portland, OR

2009
Expo
May 7-30
SOIL, Seattle, WA

Nowhere, Anywhere, Everywhere
March 21-May 2, 2009
OHGE Ltd., Seattle
Click here to read a review in the Stranger
 
The Telephone Room, Tacoma
 
2008
SOIL@SOIL
October 1-November 1, 2008
SOIL, Seattle, WA
Painting Pink Pajamas
November 8-January 2, 2008
Contemporary Art Center, Peoria, IL
Nicholas Nyland: Ceramics
August 6-30, 2008
SOIL <backspace, Seattle, WA
The Terrible Twos: A Lawrimore Project Biennial
June 27-July 12, 2008, Lawrimore Project, Seattle, WA
35th Anniversary Celebration, SAM Gallery, Seattle, WA
The Prom, Lawrimore Project, Seattle, WA
Click here to read a review in the Seattle P-I
This Is a Time Machine, The Helm, Tacoma, WA
Click here to read a review in the Tacoma News Tribune
 
2007
9 to 5, Gallery Madera, Tacoma, WA
Nicholas Nyland, Mineral, Tacoma, WA
8th Northwest Biennial, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA (catalogue)
We Are Nature, Lakewold Gardens, Lakewood, WA
2006
SOIL at Aqua Art Miami, Miami Beach, FL (catalogue)
Mirage, SOIL, Seattle, WA
Drawings, Dessins, Zeichnungen, Basil Halward Gallery, Portland, OR
Exploded View, SOIL, Seattle, WA
2005
Surge, Tacoma Contemporary Urban Art Installations in the Woolworth Building Windows, Tacoma, WA
BIO
b.1976, Lakewood, WA
EDUCATION
>M.F.A. 2002, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
>B.F.A. 1999 University of Washington, Seattle
GALLERIES AND PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
Member, SOIL Artist Collective, Seattle, WA
AWARDS AND HONORS
>Kamiyama Artist-in-Residence Program, Japan, 2005
>City of Enumclaw/Puget Sound Energy Purchase Award, 2005
>Royal College of Art Exchange Program, London, 2001
>University of Washington Studio Art Program in Rome, Italy, 1997
BIBLIOGRAPHY
>ArtLtd.,"15 under 35", April 2008
>Ponnekanti, Rosemary, "Lakewood artist adds dimension to already wild world", Tacoma News Tribune, p. E2, 8/4/07
>8th Northwest Biennial, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, 2007
Plus Five, PennDesign, Philadelphia, 2007
>SOIL 2006, SOIL Publications, Seattle, 2006
>SOIL Artist-Run Gallery 1995-2005, SOIL Publications, Seattle, 2005

Contact: nicholasnyland@comcast.net
Companion, 2008
paper mache, acrylic, tacks, wire, metal foil, aluminum chain
27"h x 15" w x 8.25"d
Untitled, 2007
oil on canvas, 20 x 16in.
Time Machine, 2008
Collaboration with Ellen Ito
paint, cardboard, wood, party light string, (inside: afghan ottomans, vintage light fixture), appox. 10 x 16 x 8ft.
[roll-over with cursor to see interior view]
Rope of Eight Paintings, 2009
acrylic on paper, grommets, rope, variable dimensions/approx 8ft. long.