Art & Culture Talks (ACT) Program: Lecture by Bob Nickas

Bob Nickas is an independent critic and curator based in New York. He has organized more than eighty exhibitions since 1984, and served as curatorial adviser at PS1 Contemporary Art Center in New York from 2004 to 2007. Among his exhibitions at PS1 are Lee Lozano: Drawn From Life—1961–1971; William Gedney—Christopher Wool: Into the Night; Stephen Shore: American Surfaces;
Wolfgang Tillmans: Freedom from the Known; and The Painted World. He collaborated with Cady Noland on her installation for Documenta IX in 1992; contributed a section to Aperto at the 1993 Venice Biennale; and served on the curatorial teams that organized the 2003 Biennale de Lyon in Lyon, France and Greater New York 2005 at PS1/MoMA in New York. His books include Painting Abstraction: New Elements In Abstract Painting (Phaidon, 2009) and Catalogue of the Exhibition (2nd Cannons Publications, 2011), a retrospective survey of his shows.