DAVID NYZIO
Born in 1958
Lives and works in New York
EDUCATION
1983–1986 MFA, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY.
1982–1983 Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA
1979–1982 BFA, Southeastern Massachusetts University, North Dartmouth, MA
1977–1978 University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018 540W28+ART, New York
2017 540W28+ART, New York
2016 540W28+ART, New York
2015 540W28+ART, New York
2011 “Smoke and Mirrors” Postmasters Gallery, New York
1999 Postmasters Gallery, New York
1995 Asbaek Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
1994 Postmasters Gallery, New York
1992 “Observation Platform,” Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh
Juriaan van Kranendonk, den Haag, Netherlands
1991 Postmasters Gallery, New York (December)
Postmasters Gallery, New York (May)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019 “Madness in Vegetables”, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, State University of NY at New Paltz
2019 “Fact and Fiction”, Spring/Break Art Show,
UN Plaza, NYC
2019 “To Know the Light”, Wired Gallery, High Falls, NY
2018 “Untouchable”, Newburgh NY
2018 “21 ST Annual North Bennington Out door Sculpture Show” North Bennington, VT.
2017 “Wilderstein Sculpture Biennial” Wilderstein Historic Site, Rhinebeck, NY
2016 “Shimmering Substance: Selections from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation
Grantees of the Hudson Valley
Kleinerd/James Center for the Arts, Woodstock, NY
2016 “Swimming With Narcissus”, Bailey Contemporary Arts, Pompano Beach, Fl.
2001 “FreshKILLS: Artists Respond to the closure of the Staten Island Landfill”, Snug Harbor Cultural
Center, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, New York
2000 “Particle Accelerators: at the Intersection of Photography, Science, and Technology”, curated
By Jane D. Marsching, Photographic Resource Center at Boston University, 2000
1999 “Lab Works,” Islip Art Museum, East Islip, New York
1996 “Shit,” Baron/Boisanté Gallery, New York
1995 “Invented Realities,” The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI
“Natural Spectacles”, curated by Deborah Balken, David Winton Bell Gallery/Brown
University, Providence, RI
Postmasters Gallery, New York
1995 “Veered Science,” Huntington Beach Art Center, California
“A vital Matrix,” curated by Jane Hart, Domestic Setting, 1995, Los Angeles, California
1994
“Allocations 1992,” Floriade den Haag, The Netherlands [catalog]
“Blast Art Benefit,” Blast/The X-Art Foundation, 1992, New York, [catalog]
1991 Postmasters Gallery, New York
1990 “Working in Brooklyn/Installations,” The Brooklyn Museum, NY
“Stendhal Syndrome: The Cure,” Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York [catalog]
Summer Group Show, Postmasters Gallery, New York
“The (Un) Making of Nature,” Whitney Museum Downtown, New York
“Jim Hodges, David Nyzio, Vincent Shine,” Postmasters Gallery, New York
1990 “About Nature; a Romantic Impulse,” Barbara Toll Gallery, New York
“Strange Attractors: Signs of Chaos,” New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (catalog)
“Stendhal Syndrome: The Cure,” Andrea Rosen Gallery, 1990 [catalog]
“The (Un) Making of Nature,” Whitney Museum Of American Art, 1990
1989 “Art in the Anchorage,” Brooklyn, NY
Postmasters Gallery, New York
“The Drowned World: Waterworks,” P.S.1 Museum, Long Island City, NY (catalog)
University Art Galleries/Wright State University, Dayton, OH
1988 “Politics and Election,” DIA Foundation, New York
“Three in Sculpture,” Total Museum, South Korea
1984 “Three in Sculpture,” Korean Cultural Service, New York
1982 Penn State Zollar Gallery, State College,
Selected Bibliography
Roberta Smith, “Sculpture in High Relief,”The New York Times, May 19, 2011
Fred Bendheim, “The Art And Science of David Nyzio”, The Lancet, vol 356. October 21, 2000.
“Environmentally concerned,” curated by Karen E.Jones, Die Donne Papermill, New York, 2000
[Catalog].
William Corbett, “Particle Accelerators,” Arts MEDIA, Feb 15-March 15, 2000, pg 25-26.
David Wildman, “New Project Blends Art And Science,” The Boston Sunday Globe, January 2,
2000.
Cathy Lebowitz, “David Nyzio” Review, Art in America, September 1999
Helen A.Harrison, “On Islip, Experimentation And Installation,” The New York Times Sunday, August
29, 1999.
Edith Newhall, “Home Grown,” review, New York Magazine March 1, 1999
Jim Knipfel, “Bacteriart,” New York City, March 17-23, 1999.
Karen Emenhiser, “Imaginary Gardens and Real
Toads,” Catalog Essay, University of Buffalo Art
Gallery, March 1996.
Debora Balken, “David Nyzio,” review, Art in America, March 1995.
The New Yorker, Goings On About Town, Art, November 14, 1994.
Allocations 1992, catalog, Floriade, den Haag, April 1992.
Gretchen Faust, “David Nyzio,” review, Arts, February 1992.
Jan Avgikos, “Green Piece,” Artforum, April 1991.
Muffet Jones, “Fetish, Process, and the Waste–Stream: Artists’ Anxieties and Contemporary Art,” New
Observations #81, Spring 1991.
Michele Cone, “Baroque Nature,” Arts, March 1991.
Jeanne Greenberg, "David Nyzio", Working in Brooklyn, (catalog essay), Brooklyn Museum, New
York, September 1990.
Edward Ball, "The Greening of Art", The Village Voice, July 31, 1990.
Elizabeth Finch, "Fantasy and Fetishism in Contemporary Representations of Nature", catalog essay,
The (Un) Making of Nature, Whitney Museum Downtown, 1990.
Laura Cottingham, "David Nyzio", Flash Art, May/June 1990.
Eleanor Heartney, "Eco–Logic", Sculpture, March/April 1990.
Robert Mahoney, "David Nyzio", Arts, January 1990.
Robert Mahoney, "Art in the Anchorage", Arts, November 1989.
Michael Kimmelman, "David Nyzio", New York Times, October 27, 1989.
Laura Trippi, Strange Attractors: Signs of Chaos, catalog, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New
York, September 1989.
Catherine Liu, “Jack Rinsley, David Nyzio,” Artforum, April n3 `63, 1989
GRANTS
2018 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
2014 The Shifting Foundation Grant
2013 The Shifting Foundation Grant
2007 Alpert Awards In the Arts - Nomination
1992 Commission for outdoor sculpture at the Floriade in the Netherlands
1992 Mattress Factory residency invitation
1990 Art Matters Grant at the Brooklyn Museum of Art
1990 Art matters Grant for Instillation at Brooklyn Bridge Anchorage
1990 The Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant
Visiting Artist
2016 Broward College, Ft Lauderdale, Fl
2016 Byrdcliffe Guild, Woodstock, NY
2011 Bennington Collage, Bennington, Vt
2011 Hampshire collage, Amherst, Ma
1992 Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia
1990 NYU, NYC
1990 University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
Website: davidnyzio.com