NICO WHEADON is a London-based curator, culture writer and creative consultant. 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 exhibition practices and promote interventionism as the primary vehicle through which the broadest cultural heritage may be assessed, appreciated and then archived. Nico has served as the Curatorial Director at Rush Arts Gallery and Curatorial Assistant at The Studio Museum in Harlem and has guest curated and consulted for a diverse roster of international exhibition spaces and clients including: Aljira: A Center for Contemporary Art; The Design Bureau; Performance Space; Platform; P.P.O.W.; Verge Art Fair; Talman + Monroe; The Roger Smith Hotel; and SCOPE International Art Fair. She has also guest lectured at Howard University, Pratt Institute, and The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art and has served on artist selection juries at The Fashion Center BID, Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop and The Studio Museum in Harlem.
In her original works—which often fuse documentary photography with experimental writing—Nico presents her ongoing research within the fields of human geography, comparative mythology, and cultural studies. Her work has been exhibited in Rome, Santa Fe, New York, Newark, and Providence and she has written for numerous publications and exhibition catalogues including NuktaArt: Contemporary Art Magazine of Pakistan and Studio Magazine.
Nico is an honours graduate of Goldsmith's College, 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 in Prague.
Her site-responsive curatorial projects combat the mounting ephemerality of contemporary exhibition practices and promote interventionism as the primary vehicle through which the broadest cultural heritage may be assessed, appreciated and then archived. Nico has served as the Curatorial Director at Rush Arts Gallery and Curatorial Assistant at The Studio Museum in Harlem and has guest curated and consulted for a diverse roster of international exhibition spaces and clients including: Aljira: A Center for Contemporary Art; The Design Bureau; Performance Space; Platform; P.P.O.W.; Verge Art Fair; Talman + Monroe; The Roger Smith Hotel; and SCOPE International Art Fair. She has also guest lectured at Howard University, Pratt Institute, and The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art and has served on artist selection juries at The Fashion Center BID, Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop and The Studio Museum in Harlem.
In her original works—which often fuse documentary photography with experimental writing—Nico presents her ongoing research within the fields of human geography, comparative mythology, and cultural studies. Her work has been exhibited in Rome, Santa Fe, New York, Newark, and Providence and she has written for numerous publications and exhibition catalogues including NuktaArt: Contemporary Art Magazine of Pakistan and Studio Magazine.
Nico is an honours graduate of Goldsmith's College, 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 in Prague.
