Nico Wheadon is an independent curator, writer, artist and creative consultant. Her practice surveys the cultural roles of visual production and translation to stage alternate traditions for viewership and authorship. She currently lives and works between New York and London.
Prior to pursuing an MA in Creative + Cultural Entrepreneurship from Goldsmiths, Wheadon served as the Curatorial Director at Rush Arts Gallery + Resource Center and Curatorial Assistant at the Studio Museum in Harlem. She has guest curated at P.P.O.W. Gallery, New York; Verge Emerging Art Fair, Miami and New York; Talman + Monroe Gallery, Brooklyn; The Roger Smith Hotel, New York; and SCOPE International Art Fair, Miami and New York. Her work has been exhibited in Rome, New York, Newark, and Providence and she has written for NuktArt, Karachi, Pakistan; Studio Magazine, New York; and Real Art Ways, Hartford. She is an honors graduate of Brown University’s Art Semiotics and Literary Arts departments and the Film and Television School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, CZ.
2010 PROJECTS
Exhibiting Artist, DRIFT, Little Wing Performance Space, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Co-curated by Eileen Olivieri Torpey and Jamie Powell.
Curator, Model Home, The Roger Smith Hotel Gallery, New York, NY
Lecturer, Commodity Fetishism and the Price of Representation, 21st Annual James A. Porter Colloquium, Howard University, Washington, D.C.
Guest Writer, Leslie Hewitt, Untitled (Epiphany of Circumstance), Studio Museum in Harlem Collection Book Project, New York, NY
Curator, Shallow Graves, Rush Arts Gallery, New York, NY
Curator, Carlos Sandoval de Leon, Rush Arts Gallery Project Space, New York, NY
Curator and Host, 2nd Annual Gold Rush Awards, Red Bull Space, New York, NY
Curator, Zachary Fabri, Verge Art Fair, Dylan Hotel, New York, NY
Curator, Lynn Palewicz, selves, Rush Arts Gallery Project Space, New York, NY
Curator, Leor Grady, Untitled (Cabinet) 2009, Rush Arts Gallery Display Case, New York, NY
Curator, Borderline, Rush Arts Gallery, New York, NY
Curator, Jennie Baptiste, Accompong Maroons, Rush Arts Gallery Project Space, New York, NY
Curator, Breanne Trammell + Peter Segerstrom, Rush Arts Gallery Display Case, New York, NY
Prior to pursuing an MA in Creative + Cultural Entrepreneurship from Goldsmiths, Wheadon served as the Curatorial Director at Rush Arts Gallery + Resource Center and Curatorial Assistant at the Studio Museum in Harlem. She has guest curated at P.P.O.W. Gallery, New York; Verge Emerging Art Fair, Miami and New York; Talman + Monroe Gallery, Brooklyn; The Roger Smith Hotel, New York; and SCOPE International Art Fair, Miami and New York. Her work has been exhibited in Rome, New York, Newark, and Providence and she has written for NuktArt, Karachi, Pakistan; Studio Magazine, New York; and Real Art Ways, Hartford. She is an honors graduate of Brown University’s Art Semiotics and Literary Arts departments and the Film and Television School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, CZ.
2010 PROJECTS
Exhibiting Artist, DRIFT, Little Wing Performance Space, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Co-curated by Eileen Olivieri Torpey and Jamie Powell.
Curator, Model Home, The Roger Smith Hotel Gallery, New York, NY
Lecturer, Commodity Fetishism and the Price of Representation, 21st Annual James A. Porter Colloquium, Howard University, Washington, D.C.
Guest Writer, Leslie Hewitt, Untitled (Epiphany of Circumstance), Studio Museum in Harlem Collection Book Project, New York, NY
Curator, Shallow Graves, Rush Arts Gallery, New York, NY
Curator, Carlos Sandoval de Leon, Rush Arts Gallery Project Space, New York, NY
Curator and Host, 2nd Annual Gold Rush Awards, Red Bull Space, New York, NY
Curator, Zachary Fabri, Verge Art Fair, Dylan Hotel, New York, NY
Curator, Lynn Palewicz, selves, Rush Arts Gallery Project Space, New York, NY
Curator, Leor Grady, Untitled (Cabinet) 2009, Rush Arts Gallery Display Case, New York, NY
Curator, Borderline, Rush Arts Gallery, New York, NY
Curator, Jennie Baptiste, Accompong Maroons, Rush Arts Gallery Project Space, New York, NY
Curator, Breanne Trammell + Peter Segerstrom, Rush Arts Gallery Display Case, New York, NY
