About
Elisabeth Nicula is an artist and writer in San Francisco. Her essays have appeared in Momus, Small Press Traffic’s The Back Room, SFMOMA’s Open Space, New Life Quarterly Magazine, PAPER Magazine, and elsewhere. Smooth Friend is her small press for publishing new short fiction and poetry online and in pamphlet-style books. Her latest publication, San Francisco Review of Whatever, is a print magazine for critical writing on art and other subjects. She amassed over 100,000 photographs of two California scrub jays during a five-year period of deep observation and friendship.
Contact
Send inquiries to hi@elisabethnicula.com.
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Selected Projects
Publishing
San Francisco Review of Whatever, 2025–
Smooth Friend, 2021–
Writing
"Love Is An Ambivalence That Knows No Bounds," Angel Food, 2025
"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
"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
Web-based Artworks
WWWWEB.SITE, 2023–
Still Life with Void and Observer, for the je délire pavilion in the Wrong Biennale, curated by Andres Manniste, Joyce Yahouda, and Laurent Bouchard, 2023
Cultivation, for the Art was only a substitute for the internet pavilion in the Wrong Biennale, curated by Andres Manniste, 2021–2022
"Under the Road," Silica Magazine, 2020
abjectsubli.me, 2019–
frank.fan, 2019–
Miss You, for the Peregrination pavilion in the Wrong Biennale, curated by Andres Manniste, 2019–2020
dioramas.space, supported by a grant from Rhizome, 2018–2020
"Dioramas," SFMOMA's Open Space, 2017
"California," Silica Magazine, 2017
Aspects of Geological Time (multi-part project), 2016–2017
geologicaltime.net, for Internet! A Retrospective, San Francisco, CA, 2016
Predictions, for Electric Objects, 2016
Works on Newhive (archived), 2013–2017