Zoe Nelson

Zoe Nelson received an MFA from Columbia University and a BA from Barnard College. They have mounted solo exhibitions at The Lighthouse Works Gallery, Fishers Island, NY (2017); Cleve Carney Art Gallery, Glen Ellyn, IL (2015); Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL (2014); and a recent two-person exhibition with Judy Ledgerwood at Practise, Oak Park, IL (2017). Nelson’s work has been included in group exhibitions at Greenpoint Terminal Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; Durden and Ray, Los Angeles, CA; and numerous Chicago-based galleries including South of the Tracks Projects, LVL3 Gallery, ACRE, Fernwey, and O’Connor Art Gallery at Dominican University, among others.

Nelson has received press in ARTFORUM, Huffington Post, Bad at Sports, Newcity, and New American Paintings. They have participated in funded residences through OxBow (MI), ACRE (WI), Pont-Aven School of Contemporary Art (France), and Yale University Norfolk Summer Program (CT). Nelson has been a Visiting Artist at schools including the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, and Northwestern University, and was formerly Adjunct Faculty at DePaul University. They currently hold an Adjunct Assistant Professor position at Columbia University.