NICO WHEADON is a London-based artist, curator, producer + writer. Her extensive practice—which employs both critical and experimental methodologies—surveys the cultural roles of creative production and authors new paradigms for discussing the potential for social innovation, cultural preservation and urban regeneration through the arts.
Her site-responsive curatorial projects combat the mounting ephemerality of Contemporary production practices and promote innovative exhibition strategy as the primary vehicle through which the broadest cultural heritage may be delivered, consumed, and preserved.
Wheadon has served as the Curatorial Director at Rush Arts Gallery [New York] and Curatorial Assistant at The Studio Museum in Harlem [New York] and has guest curated and consulted for a diverse roster of international exhibition spaces including: ]performance s p a c e[ [London]; P.P.O.W. [New York]; Verge Emerging Art Fair [Miami/New York]; Talman + Monroe Gallery [Brooklyn]; The Roger Smith Hotel [New York]; and SCOPE International Art Fair [Miami/New York].
In her original works, Wheadon namely employs new media, experimental writing and found objects to document her research into the fields of human geography and comparative mythology. Wheadon’s artwork has been exhibited in Rome, Santa Fe, New York, Newark, and Providence and she has written for publications including NuktaArt [Pakistan] and Studio Magazine [New York].
Wheadon is an honours graduate of Goldsmiths, University of London in Creative + Cultural Entrepreneurship; Brown University in both Art Semiotics and Literary Arts; and the Film and Television School of the Academy of Performing Arts [Prague CZ] in Film Production.
Her site-responsive curatorial projects combat the mounting ephemerality of Contemporary production practices and promote innovative exhibition strategy as the primary vehicle through which the broadest cultural heritage may be delivered, consumed, and preserved.
Wheadon has served as the Curatorial Director at Rush Arts Gallery [New York] and Curatorial Assistant at The Studio Museum in Harlem [New York] and has guest curated and consulted for a diverse roster of international exhibition spaces including: ]performance s p a c e[ [London]; P.P.O.W. [New York]; Verge Emerging Art Fair [Miami/New York]; Talman + Monroe Gallery [Brooklyn]; The Roger Smith Hotel [New York]; and SCOPE International Art Fair [Miami/New York].
In her original works, Wheadon namely employs new media, experimental writing and found objects to document her research into the fields of human geography and comparative mythology. Wheadon’s artwork has been exhibited in Rome, Santa Fe, New York, Newark, and Providence and she has written for publications including NuktaArt [Pakistan] and Studio Magazine [New York].
Wheadon is an honours graduate of Goldsmiths, University of London in Creative + Cultural Entrepreneurship; Brown University in both Art Semiotics and Literary Arts; and the Film and Television School of the Academy of Performing Arts [Prague CZ] in Film Production.
