Nicholas Norris
Nicholas Norris (b.1991 Phoenix, Arizona USA) lives and works in Berlin, Germany. Norris’ paintings create new spaces of connection and joy. Partially observed and partially imagined, the works are based on drawings made in and around the homes
of friends and family. Although devoid of people, the contents of these spaces behave like people. Exuberant and at times off-kilter, they channel the eagerness and anxiety we feel in coming together. This sense of connectedness is paired with a charming imbalance and spatial ambiguity, as if to say that connection is not possible without being in motion.
Certain patterns repeat in Norris’ paintings like a secret visual code. Looped and scalloped lines, daubs, dashes and swirls, then freeform areas resembling the fluid lines of water or wood grain. This is the tool box of glyphic language from which the
drawings and paintings are constructed. When inside a room, the glyphs look like patterns adorning the space, but outside, they resemble minerals or atmospheric particles.
Norris adds layers of saturated color to his compositions, exploring color combinations that are deeply subjective. Bright hues vibrate against one another, imbuing each work with a frenetic energy. Everything in Norris’ world seems to be
under the same spell, exciting and uncontrollable, hinting to a latent pulsation under all things.
-David Whelan-
Born 1991 in Arizona, USA, currently living and working in Berlin, Germany.
Education
- 2021 MFA in Painting at Hunter College, New York, NY
- 2014 BFA in Painting, Maine College of Art, Portland, ME
- 2012 Yale Summer Studies, Auvillar, FRANCE (Summer Session)
Solo Shows
- 2023 blooms, EKELY, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Turf Paradise, Thierry Goldberg Gallery, New York, NY
- 2022 look at that water, Thierry Goldberg Gallery, New York, NY
- 2015 Jumpin’ Off, Platform-Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- 2013 Light Smack Paintings: Nicholas Norris, Peloton Labs, Portland, ME USA
Group Shows
2024 Aphelion, Galerie PJ, Metz, France
2023 Winter Salo(o)n, Haverkampf Leistenschneider, Berlin, Germany
Friends & Family, Thierry Goldberg Gallery, New York, NY
2022 ART021 Shanghai, Thierry Goldberg Gallery New York, NY (fair)
when i consider everything that grows, Quorum Quorum, Los Angeles, CA
2021 MFA Thesis Show, Hunter College, New York, NY
2019 #11 curated by Brent Birnbaum, Shows in Spaces, Rockaway Beach, NY USA
Tal R, Anna Bjerger and Nicholas Norris, EKELY, Copenhagen, Denmark
2017 Daydreamers curated by Elisa Rusca & Stephen Kent, Ferienpark Templin, Germany
YUCCA MOTEL, Haus am Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin, Germany
2016 Dansinit, Hasenheide 9, Berlin, Germany
Spring Exhibition, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark
2015 Turbo Pascal, 145 Karl Marx, Berlin, Germany
2014 in habit Thesis Exhibition, Maine College of Art, Portland, ME USA
Free For All, SPACE Gallery, Portland, ME USA
2013 New Work: Nicholas Norris, Friedman Gallery, Portland, ME USA
2012 New Work: Nicholas Norris, Friedman Gallery, Portland, ME USA
YSS @ ISS Auvillar Work, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT. USA
Residencies
- 2018 Atlantic Center for the Arts Masters Artist Residency with
- Jules De Balincourt. New Smyrna, Florida USA
- 2014 Kunstnarhuset Messen Residency, Alvik, NORWAY
Awards
- 2014 Professional Development Grant Recipient, Portland, ME
- 2013 Yale Norfolk Nominee by Maine College of Art
- 2012 Fellow at Yale Summer Sessions, Auvillar, FRANCE
Address
10 rue des jardins, 57000 Metz, France
Hours
Wednesday-Saturday 11.00am-6.00pm
Contact us
+33 3 87 68 52 40