Nicholas Cueva
Born in Dana Point, California, Nicholas Cueva worked as an artist in the central coast before going to Chicago for more academic training, eventually leading him to his current practice in Brooklyn, New York, where his diverse and interrelated bodies of work have found a home.
Exhibition Record:
Solo:
2023 "Estate Sale" Home Gallery, NYC
2022 "Perudox" gramplay on Instagram
2021 "Werehouse" One River School, Larchmont, NY
2019 “Sex Wax”, Freight+Volume, New York, NY
2018 “Nicholas Cueva”, M.E.N gallery, New York, NY
2017 “The People Games Play”, Five Myles, Brooklyn, NY
2016 “American Spring” Fastnet, Brooklyn, NY
2016 “Self Deception” Zrobili, Terra Firma, Brooklyn, NY
2015 “Cultural Packet” This Friday or Next Friday, Brooklyn, NY
2015 “Persona Non-Grotto” Dreamboat, Chicago IL
2015 “Untittled”, MPSTN, Chicago, IL
2015 “Friday the 13th Edition”, LRS, Brooklyn, NY
2011 “Legend and Map for Items: 120A, 121A, 121B, 132A” Autumn Space, Chicago, IL
2010 "Natural Section", Manifest Exhibitions, Chicago, IL
Group:
2023 "Friend of the Artist" A.I.R. gallery
2022 "Just about in the Round" KAJE
2022 "Dandelion Fork" Olivia Swider, Spring Break
2022 "Double-Up" My Pet Ram, Santa Barbara, CA
2022 "America Now" 185 Varick
2021 "BORDERWALLS IV" Border Project Space
2021 "Slime Friends Vol II", 3754 North Mission Blvd, Los Angeles
2021 "Invoking the Amphibian" ZXY Gallery, NYC
2021 "Ludibria" Spring Break, NYC
2021 "Hang Ten" The Catskills Gallery, Rockaways, NYC
2021 "Salon" The Chelsea Manna Gallery, NYC
2020 "Seasonal Repression" Field Projects, New York, NY
2020 "Uniforms for the End of Time" multiple locations, NYC
2020 "Pungent Dystopia", Freight+Volume Gallery, New York, NY
2019 “Caffine” Living Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2019 “Chromatic Reveries”, NARS, Brooklyn, NY
2018 “Actually Weird” Underdonk, Brooklyn, NY
2017 “Riot Act”, Gangway Projects, Newport, RI
2017 “Not Right”, SLPC Benefit, Brooklyn, NY
2017 “Suicide Squeeze”, Yo Mama Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2017 “Along a River of Sapphire Pools”, Mountain Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2017 “Group Portrait” UNISEX, Brooklyn, NY
2017 “Piano Men” 68 Jay St. Brooklyn, NY
2017 “Soft Reboot”, Proto, Hoboken, NJ
2017 “Fractured Union”, Brooklyn Fireproof, Brooklyn, NY
2017 “Show Me Yours”, Underdonk, Brooklyn, NY
2017 “A bad situation just got worse”, Fastnet, Brooklyn, NY
2016 “Cracking Up, Breaking Down”, The Parlour Bushwick, Brooklyn NY
2016 “Future Histories”, Mountain Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2016 “New Barracuda”, Proto, Hoboken, NJ
2016 “Alchemy” Elijah Wheat Showroom, Brooklyn, NY
2016 NADA NY, 247365, New York, NY
2016 “Object Trap” Spring Break, curated by Alex Sewell, New York, NY
2016 “Fort” Ess Ef Eff, Brooklyn, NY
2015 “Fresh Catch” Fastnet, Brooklyn, NY
2015 “Into the woods” Warren-Morris, New York, NY
2015 “Underdonk and friends”, Underdonk, Brooklyn, NY
2015 “Tread” Ess Ef Eff, Brooklyn, NY
2015 “Balustrade”, Public Address, Brooklyn, NY
2015 “Slo Jams”, Brooklyn, NY
2014 “MAS Art”, Torrence Museum of Art, Torrance, CA
2014 “Erdos Bacon”, BFP, Brooklyn, NY
2014 “WHBII”, Julius Caesar, Chicago, IL
2013 “A Long Line”, PEREGRINE PROGRAM, Chicago, IL
2013 “Get off the Lawn”, Parade Ground, Manhattan, NY
2013 “Black and White”, Parade Ground, Manhattan, NY
2012 “LIVE FREE AND DIE”, Parade Ground, Manhattan, NY
2012 Brucennial, BHQ, New York, NY
2012 “Taste”, Small Black Door, Brooklyn, NY,
2011 “Gaylen Gerber”, Renwick Gallery, New York, NY.
2011 “WISHYOUWEREHERE” Adds Donna, Chicago, IL
2011 “Faux Cult”, No Globe, Brooklyn, NY.
2011 “Instruction Sets”, Autumn Space, Chicago, IL.
2011 MFA Thesis Show “Rout”, Sullivan Center, SAIC, Chicago, IL.
2011 “40 Hours”, Autumn Space, Chicago, IL.
2010 “You're not making art”, Zrobili, Chicago, IL.
2010 “Get Your Fix”, Zrobili, Chicago, IL.
2010 “Fest Fest”, Julius Caesar, Chicago, IL
Education:
M.F.A. 2011 Painting/Drawing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
B.F.A 2008 Studio Art from California Polytechnic State University, SLO
Grants:
2008-2011 School of the Art Institute of Chicago Grant
Featured writing:
Ocampo, “Art Crush: Issue 4, ‘Nicholas Cueva’, November 13
Composite #4 Doppelganger, Composite Arts Magazine, Summer 2011
“Orchids 1-147”, Healthy MGMT, 2011
Tremblay, “Artist Spotlight: Nicholas Cueva”, April 2011, Curatorial Fellow Interviews
Wyche, "An Adaptation of Adorno’s Aesthetic Theory to the Public Exhibition Nick Cueva: Natural Section", December 2010
Camplin, "Nicholas Cueva" June 2010
Curation:
Underdonk, Independent Curatorial Space 2012-2016, Co-Owner, Ridgewood, NY
Zrobili, Independent art space and school 2009-2016, Owner/Curator, Chicago, IL and Brooklyn NY
MURDERTOWN, Independent art space and school 2011 Owner/Co-curator, Chicago, IL
TMWK: Teamwork, Artist collective 2002-2006
Assistantship:
Studio Manager for Bjarne Melgaard 2011-current
Assistant for Joe Scanlan 2012
Assistant for Sverre Burtness 2012-2013