About
Elisabeth Nicula is an artist and writer from Norfolk, Virginia. She is interested in seeing and being seen by the non-human world, abstracted scales of space and time, poetics, and memory. Smooth Friend is her publishing project. The San Francisco Review of Whatever is another project, coming in 2024.
Contact
Send inquiries to hi@elisabethnicula.com.
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Selected Activities
Writing
"A Body That's All Surface," The Back Room, 2024
"We're Alive, Pablo is Dead," Momus, 2023
"In the Clear Stream of All of It," Screen Slate, 2023
"Bad Reviews," Momus, 2023
"The Artist Is the Void," Momus, 2022
Poems in As of Late IV, 2022
"A Figure That Decomposes," "Ghost Story," and "Notes From Our Last Meeting," a three-part residency for SFMOMA's Open Space, 2021
"The Dart," Facility Magazine, 2021
"Frank's Corpus," SFMOMA's Open Space, 2021
"Culture Diary: Elisabeth Nicula," niͥghͪᴛⷮliͥfeͤ, 2020
"Under the Road," Silica Magazine, 2020
"March 27, 2020," in Urgency Reader 2, and reprinted in 25 From Urgency Reader 2 for the Brooklyn Art Book Fair, Queer.Archive.Work, 2020
Living Room Light Exchange Season 6 Survey, in Rare Earth: The Ground is Not Digital, 2020
"Have You Seen This Bird," New Life Quarterly, 2019
"Dioramas," SFMOMA's Open Space, 2017
"California," Silica Magazine, 2017
"NATUREGIFMANIFESTO," Living Room Light Exchange Issue 02, State Change, 2017
"Artist Elisabeth Nicula's New Collection on 'Climate Anxiety'," PAPER Magazine, 2016
"Aspects of Geological Time," instructions for assembling a paper GIF, Living Room Light Exchange Issue 01, 2016
Exhibitions and Web-based Artworks
WWWWEB.SITE, 2023–
frank.fan, in progress
Still Life with Void and Observer, for the je délire/i rave pavilion in the Wrong Biennale, curated by Andres Manniste, Joyce Yahouda, and Laurent Bouchard, 2023
Pyramid Scheme, Bass & Reiner, San Francisco, CA, 2023
Cultivation, for the Art was only a substitute for the internet pavilion in the Wrong Biennale, curated by Andres Manniste, 2021–2022
Miss You, for the Peregrination pavilion in the Wrong Biennale, curated by Andres Manniste, 2019–2020
Elisabeth Nicula: Already Underwater, Black & White Projects, San Francisco, CA, 2019
dioramas.space, supported by a grant from Rhizome, 2018–2020
New Work: A Retrospective, Black & White Projects, San Francisco, CA, 2018
Dioramas solo show and residency, Black & White Projects, San Francisco, CA, 2017
Bring Your Own Beamer, R/SF Projects, San Francisco, CA, 2017
geologicaltime.net, exhibited at Internet! A Retrospective, SPUR, San Francisco, CA, 2016
Aspects of Geological Time (fig. 8–13), digital commission for Electric Objects, 2016
Aspects of Geological Time (fig. 3), for Relaxation Machine: New Hive + Print Screen Net.Art Show, Print Screen Festival, Holon, Israel (Jurors Liat Berdugo, Melissa Broder, Lior Zalmanson), 2016
Substrates: Elisabeth Nicula, Anthony Ryan, and Clare Szydlowski, City Arts Gallery at CCSF, San Francisco, CA, 2016
Hybrid Series #1, Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland, CA, 2016
Predictions, digital commission for Electric Objects, and an interview, 2016
Follow for Unfollow, The Galallery, San Francisco, CA, 2016
San Francisco Zine Fest, 2016
Prints: California Society of Printmakers, Isabelle Percy West Gallery, Oakland, CA, 2016
Artspan Group Exhibition, stARTup Art Fair, San Francisco, CA, 2016
Newhive #futureart at Fusion's Real Future Fair, San Francisco, CA, 2015
Winterfest Art Show benefiting the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition, San Francisco, CA, 2015
2 Blocks of Art, 66 Sixth, San Francisco, CA, 2015
Where solo show, Graphic Arts Workshop Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2015
Print Exchange: Just a Second, Ground Floor Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 2015
Pressed, Pacific Art League Main Gallery, Palo Alto, CA, 2015
ArtSpan Juried Art Auction, SOMArts Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA, 2015
Fragments of Moments, Curated State pop-up show, San Francisco, CA, 2014
Where, solo installation, Window Treat Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2014
ArtLaunch, SOMArts Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA, 2014
Let This Be a Sign, 7 Dunham Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 2014
New Members Show, Graphic Arts Workshop, San Francisco, CA, 2014
Prints from the Graphic Arts Workshop, Southern Graphics Council International, Alley Cat Books Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2014
Sketchbook Project, Brooklyn Art Library, Brooklyn, NY, 2014
Rethink Ink: 25 years at the Mixit Print Studio, Cantor Art Gallery, Worcester, MA, 2013
Peer-Reviewed Submissions, Nave Gallery Annex, Somerville, MA, 2013
16th Annual National Small Works Exhibition, Washington Printmakers Gallery, Silver Spring, MD, 2013
Salon 21, Nave Gallery, Somerville, MA, 2013
Black Ink, Nave Gallery Annex, Somerville, MA, 2013
Prints, Plates, and Blocks, Stafford Arts Center, Greensboro, NC, 2013
Rethink Ink: 25 years at the Mixit Print Studio, Boston Public Library, Boston, MA, 2012
Printmania, Arts Union, Somerville, MA, 2012
Lectures and Talks
Guest lecture, Art and Architecture Colloquium, University of San Francisco, CA, 2022
Guest speaker, The Virtual Void: An Open Conversation, with Erica Molesworth and Fred Scharmen, in Judit Navratil's VR Art Camp, 2022 (video)
Guest speaker, Information Maintainers, 2022 (video)
Reading "Have You Seen This Bird," and discussion with Jordan Karnes, Wolfman New Life Quarterly Issue 6 release party, Beauty Supply Arts, Oakland, CA, 2020
Visual lecture, Tidewater, PLACE TALKS, Prelinger Library, San Francisco, CA, 2019
Guest lecture, Liat Berdugo's Copy Culture class, University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, 2019
Guest speaker, Living Room Light Exchange, with Sanaz Mazinani, Beth Stephens, and Annie Sprinkle, Oakland, CA, 2018
Readings and Art for the Human and Non-human Worlds, with Kate Schapira, Javier Arbona, and Maya Weeks, E. M. Wolfman, Oakland, CA, 2017
Reading "NATUREGIFMANIFESTO," Living Room Light Exchange Issue 02, State Change release party, with Rick Prelinger, Blinkpopshift, and Joe Veix, The Thing Quarterly, San Francisco, CA, 2017