Artist Registry
The White Columns Curated Artist Registry is an online platform for emerging and under-recognized artists to share images and information about their respective practices. The Registry seeks to create a context for artists who have yet to benefit from wider critical, curatorial or commercial support. To be eligible, artists cannot be affiliated with a commercial gallery in New York City.
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RESUME
Nicholas Wisniewski (b.1982, Essex, Maryland) is an artist and builder working in Baltimore City. Through physical and social sculpture, he has pursued career-long questions of how we inhabit space, how we construct the city, and the economic, political, and practical stakes of both. Whether carving into drywall or erecting it, Wisniewski uses the materials and mechanisms of the built environment to challenge forces of neglect and to nurture a cautious optimism about the possibilities of repair.
After studying painting at the Maryland Institute College of Art (BFA, 2004), Wisnewski and early collaborators with a shared interest in social practice founded Camp Baltimore and later the Baltimore Development Cooperative (BDC). These collectives were vehicles for interventionist actions that eventually—in the form of Participation Park, a squatted community garden and social space in East Baltimore’s Johnston Square—grew into longer term occupations. As part of BDC, Wisniewski was awarded the Sondheim Prize in 2009. He has presented work at the Contemporary, the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Creative Time Summit (2009), the Venice Biennale (2012), and Documenta 13; his work has been written about in the Baltimore Sun, Bmore Art, the City Paper, Art in America, and UCLA’s Critical Planning Journal.
In 2010, along with artist-collaborators, Wisniewski founded the Compound in East Baltimore Midway. Through many iterations, the Compound remains a space for genre-straying cultural production and experimentation.
https://nicholasfwisniewski.com/about/