Nick van Woert
Born 1979, Reno, NV (US)
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY (US)
Nick van Woert’s practice is rooted in his architectural background and reflects on modern day society, technology, and progress. Van Woert works with contemporary materials that are ubiquitous in the environment around us, investigating the extreme polarity materials can traverse. Fascinated by the material language of art and what things consist of, he dismantles and strips down objects to examine what remains.
Since his first solo exhibition in 2010, Van Woert has made typically large scale, mixed media sculptures, wall works, and paintings from quotidian materials. One can locate an approach to thinking and working in concern with the immediate environment, everyday materials, and considering his own contemporary urban landscape and the ubiquity of artificial objects. Those various components signify the comforts of modern life: wealth, leisure, vanity, vacation—yet they can be mixed or altered, and suddenly they turn violent. These materials, produced through modern technological advances and almost never spoil, subconsciously satisfy a human desire for immortality that may only become more extreme as technology and time progresses.
Nick van Woert (b. 1979 in Reno, NV, US) is a Brooklyn-based artist. He received his MFA from Parsons School of Art and Design, New York, NY (US) in 2007 and completed residencies at the Zabludowicz collection, in Sarvisalo (FI) and at The Edward Albee Foundation in Montauk, NY (US). His work has shown widely, including museum exhibitions at the Kunstmuseum,The Hague (NL); Margulies Collection at the Warehouse in Miami, FL (US); MAMbo, the Museum of Modern Art, Bologna (IT); SCAD Museum of Art in Savannah, GA (US); The Zabludowicz Collection, London (UK); The Philip & Muriel Berman Museum of Art in Collegeville, PA (US); Katonah Museum in Westchester County, NY (US); Nevada Museum of Art in Reno, NV (US), and at Sheppard Contemporary Gallery at the University of Nevada, Reno, NV (US). Van Woert’s work is included in the collections of Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna (MAMbo), Bologna (IT); AkzoNobel Art Foundation, Amsterdam (NL); EKARD collection and many private collections.
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54 White Street | Inaugural exhibition
GRIMM's new gallery in Tribeca 20 Mar - 17 Apr 2021 GRIMM 54 White St, New York, NY (US)Join us in March 2021 for the grand opening of GRIMM's new space in Tribeca at 54 White Street. For more further information, please email info@grimmgallery.comRead more -
Frieze New York
Group presentation 8 - 16 May 2020 GRIMM Van Baerlestraat 80, Amsterdam (NL)Frieze presentation at GRIMM's new Van Baerlestraat 80 location in Amsterdam.Read more -
Nick van Woert
Body Parts 4 Sep - 12 Oct 2019 GRIMM 202 Bowery, New York, NY (US) -
Nick van Woert
If I Wrote a Poem 1 Feb - 16 Mar 2019 GRIMM Keizersgracht 241, Amsterdam (NL) -
Pop-up GRIMM Brussels
Group Exhibition 18 Apr - 5 May 2018 Ravensteinstraat 44, Brussels (BE), Other locations -
Community Board
Group Exhibition 24 Nov 2017 - 20 Jan 2018 Frans Halsstraat 26, Amsterdam (NL), Other locations -
Nick van Woert
Organ Donor 2 Jun - 16 Jul 2017 GRIMM 202 Bowery, New York, NY (US) -
Nick van Woert
Hunky Dory Honky Tonk 18 Oct - 22 Nov 2014 Frans Halsstraat 26, Amsterdam (NL), Other locations -
Huidige Zaken
Group Exhibition 5 Jun - 1 Oct 2014 Frans Halsstraat 26, Amsterdam (NL), Other locations -
Nick van Woert
Improvised Munition 3 - 31 Mar 2012 Frans Halsstraat 26, Amsterdam (NL), Other locations -
Pewter Wings, Golden Horns, Stone Veils
Group Exhibition 3 - 31 Mar 2012 GRIMM Keizersgracht 241, Amsterdam (NL) -
Nick van Woert
She-Wolf 4 Sep - 23 Oct 2010 Keizersgracht 82, Other locations
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James Salomon visits INFINITE SEED at Bhumi Farms, East Hampton
James Salomon, Whitehot Magazine, June 22, 2020 -
Nick van Woert
Robert R. Shane, The Brooklyn Rail, October 1, 2019 -
Torso's vol dagelijkse dingen (in Dutch)
Sophia Zücher, Het Parool, February 22, 2019 -
GRIMM Gallery presents the politically charged exhibition 'Community Board'
Artdaily, January 1, 2018 -
Homocidal history and fossils of the future, as presented by Nick van Woert
Misha Kruijswijk, Metropolis M, August 31, 2016 -
Interview: Nick van Woert
Floor Kortman, Subbacultcha, December 3, 2015 -
Nick van Woert
Julie Boukobza, Flash Art, November 9, 2015 -
Habitat: Nick van Woert
Katherine McMahon, ARTnews, September 17, 2015 -
For the Former OHWOW Gallery's First Outing, a Provocative Show
Janelle Zara, T Magazine, September 2, 2015 -
Material world
Brad Bynum, News Review, January 29, 2015 -
Paris — Nick van Woert: "Haruspex" at Yvon Lambert Gallery through July 30th, 2013
A. Corrigan, Art Observed, July 11, 2013 -
All the Rage: This Year's Frieze New York Artists are Mad About Plants
Kevin McGarry, T Magazine, May 10, 2013 -
Studio Visit: Nick van Woert, Artist
Monica Khemsurov, Sight Unseen, March 29, 2013 -
AO Interview — Los Angeles: Nick van Woert "No Man's Land" at OHWOW
A. Berman, Art Observed, March 26, 2013 -
Now Showing | Nick van Woert’s ‘No Man’s Land’
Erica Bellman, T Magazine, February 21, 2013 -
All-Star Cast: Up-And-Comer Nick Van Woert’s Sculptures Get Inside Your Head
Dan Duray, Observer, September 25, 2012 -
Rotatable Classic Sculpture Questions Faith
Pinar Noorata, My Modern Met, August 21, 2012 -
Interview : Nick van Woert, 2011
artnet, July 30, 2012 -
Faux-Finished to the Core: Q&A with Nick van Woert
Brienne Walsh, Art in America, December 8, 2011 -
The Zabludowicz Clan Takes Times Square
Michael Slenske, Art in America, March 1, 2011 -
A View of the New York Art Scene
C. Penwarden, artpress, March 1, 2011 -
Nine to Watch
Daniel Kunitz, Modern Painters, December 1, 2010