Toban Nichols

Biography

Toban Nichols is a deconstructivist artist living in San Francisco. His work has been seen in galleries such as, 291 Gallery in London, New Langton Arts in San Francisco, and The Seattle Art Museum. After earning a Bachelor's degree, he moved west. His career flourished in California where he recieved an MFA in Digital Media and Videography from the San Francisco Art Institute.

More recently, he was awarded a residency at the Experimental Television Center in New York and a Curatorial Internship with New Langton Arts in San Francisco.

 

 
   
    EDUCATION
2002   San Francisco Art Institute
Masters of Fine Art, New Genres
1996   Wichita State University, Wichita Kansas
Bachelor of Fine Arts- Painting
     
    COMMITTEES, AWARDS, EXPERIENCE
2005   Residency, Experimental Television Center, Newark Valley, NY
2002  

Curatorial Internship, New Langton Arts, San Francisco CA
Youth Arts Collaborative Project: Night Light- Ann Carlson & Mary Ellen Strom
Yerba Buena Arts Center

2001 - 2002  

Walter McBean Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, Gallery Assistant

2001 - 2002  

Teaching Assistant-Introduction to Digital Media as Fine Art II
San Francisco Art Institute

1997   Teaching Assistant- Intermediate Painting, Wichita State University
1996   Illustrator
Cul de Sac Cowboy
First Inline Creative, publisher
     

 

2008

 

 

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS


Monobandes, Les Territoires, Montreal, Canada (group)
Le:60, Lumen Eclipse, Harvard Square, Boston, MA (group)
BATTLESTATIONS!!, Video Project Room,00130Gallery,Helsinki, Finland (solo)
   

Videorevolutionaries.com, California Video, Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA (group)
The Future Was Then...So Now What 2, SCOPE Basel, Switzerland (group)

 

  The Future Was Then...So Now What, SCOPE New York, New York, NY (group)
100 Performances for the Hole, Garage Biennial, San Francisco, CA (group)
Blue Gunk, Public Installation- Mission Creek Park, San Francisco, CA (solo)

2007

 

Bay Area Currents, Oakland Art Gallery, Oakland, CA (group)
Premiere Screening, BronxMAP Project, New York, NY (group)
Systems and Transmutations, 3175 Gallery, San Francisco, CA (group)

2006   Spectacle, Rickshaw Stop, San Francisco, CA (group)
2005   Octopus Root Division, San Francisco, CA (group)
    Threshold Merced County Arts Council, Merced CA (group)
2004   Artist's Television Access benefit auction ATA, SanFrancisco, CA- (group)
    Burnoff Hespe Gallery, San Francisco, CA -performance & video (group)
2003   Night Moves, New Langton Arts 19th Annual Art Auction, San Francisco (group)
    Anthological Mash-Up, ATV (Artist's Television), San Franciso
Cable Access Channel 29 (solo)
    Ghost of Gatsby, Root Division benefit, San Francisco, CA (video curator)
    Take That You Bitches, & Other Intelligent Phrases, Artist's Television Access, San Francisco, CA (solo)
    Masters Thesis Exhibition, Herbst Pavilion, San Francisco, CA (group)
    Fuck You, C6 Anger Management System, 291 Gallery, London, UK (group)
2002   Idea Garden Exhibition, 300 California, San Francisco, CA (group)
    Lucite,Longitude & Joe Namath, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA (collaborative)
    MeWe, Video Installation, Justice League, San Francisco, CA (group)
    I/O series- Skin, Quotidian Gallery, San Francisco, CA (group)
    Japanamation Granma, ,Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)
    Slack Jaw, StudioZ, San Francisco, CA (group)