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Nick Wilkinson lives and works in Los Osos, California. His work, seemingly improvisational, is informed by a vast mental library of images and objects, catalogued over years of voracious collecting. His paintings and drawings exist in a world between investment-grade abstraction and dirty doodles on the back of a notebook. Mutated versions of his young sons’ drawings make regular appearances. He studied painting and printmaking at San Diego State University and has shown work throughout the United States and internationally.

In addition to his painting practice, Wilkinson is the founder and director of Left Field, a gallery that exhibits a wide range of contemporary art not otherwise seen on California’s Central Coast. He also owns a nursery in Cambria called Grow, and a drought-tolerant landscape design firm called Botanica Nova.

Education

2003
B.A. Painting & Printmaking (with Honors), San Diego State University

Exhibitions

2021
Solo Presentation, NIAD, Richmond, CA. (Forthcoming -)

2020    
Winter Group Show, Guerrero Gallery, San Francisco, CA.

2019
Climate Therapy, Public Land, Sacramento, CA.
The Spring Exhibit, Blank Art Objects, San Francisco, CA. 
Tint, Gamut Gallery, Minneapolis, MN.

2018
Does It Make a Sound?, Ochi Gallery, Ketchum, Idaho
GIFC, Copenhagen, Denmark, Los Angeles, Etc.

2017
Body High (with John Mills & Rema Ghuloum), Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Los Angeles.
Solo Presentation, NIAD, Richmond, CA. 
Taco Shop Art Show, Rosarito Mexican Rest., Pasadena, CA. Curated by Ben Sanders
Hide and Go Chic, Rover Gallery, Chicago, Il.
Quiet Please, Ace 121, Glendale, Ca.
Zing Zam Blunder, Harbinger Projects, Reykjavík, Iceland, Curated by Brian Scott Campbell
GIFC, Art Athena, Athens, Greece; Copenhagen, Denmark, Los Angeles, Etc.
Ocotillo, Stella Elkins Gallery, Tyler School of Art, Phila., PA. Curated by Jonathan Dedecker

2016
Deal With It!, Woskob Family Gallery, Penn State Univ., St. College PA.,
9 grams, Fort Works Art, Fort Worth, TX. 
From Here, Flourescent Gallery, Knoxville, TN., Curated By Zach Searcy

2015
Corrective Unconscious, Basic, San Diego, CA. 
Inner Space, Teeter, San Diego, CA
Ducks, Minotaur Projects, L.A., CA., Curated by Ryan T. Christian 
Out of the Great Wide Open, Museum of Contemporary Art, Santa Barbara, CA. 

2014
Objects Objects!!, Helmuth Projects, San Diego, CA.
Ducks, Greenpoint Terminal Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.
Savages, Studios on the Park, Paso Robles, CA

2013
Thresholds, SLO Museum of Art, San Luis Obispo, CA.
Young Savages, Studios on the Park, Paso Robles, CA

2011
A Show of Hands, Compact Gallery, San Luis Obispo, CA
Eruptions, Deer Run, Cambria, CA (Solo Show)
Featured in First Gallery, SLO Museum of Art, San Luis Obispo, CA
AaAAD), SLO Museum of Art, San Luis Obispo, CA.

2010
Under our Feet, Deer Run, Cambria, CA (Solo Show)

2007
20x20, 111 Minna, San Francisco, CA

2006
Jump Over Me, 111 Minna, San Francisco, CA

Curatorial / Gallery

OWNER / DIRECTOR
Left Field Gallery
Est. San Luis Obispo, CA. (2015 - 2018),
Los Osos, CA.  (2018-present)

Bibliography

New American Paintings / Pacific Coast Issue #145 / Curated by Christine Y. Kim, Aug 2020
Maake Magazine / Issue Nine / Left Field Gallery Interview and Feature for Artist Run Spaces, 2019
Darren Jones, Art in America: The Critical Dustbowl, New Art Examiner, May 2019
Kate Mothes, YNGSPC, Interview April 2018
Maake Magazine / Issue Three /  Personal Interview and Feature, 2016
Steve Gibson, http://mockingbirdthoughtz.blogspot.com/ (November 15, 2014)
Anna Weltner, “Super Natural”, New Times, San Luis Obispo, Volume 28, Issue 12, October, 2013
Sarah Linn, “Crossing “Thresholds”: Contemporary Art on the Central Coast”, KCET Artbound, October 2013. http://www.kcet.org/arts/artbound/counties/san-luis-obispo/thresholds-san-luis-obispomuseum-of-art.html