KELLY NIPPER
Born 1971, Minneapolis, MN
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA
EDUCATION
1995
MFA, Art, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
1993
BFA, Media Arts, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, MN
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS & PERFORMANCE COMMISSIONS
2017
Terre Mecanique, Performa 17 Commission, New York, NY
2013-2014
Tessa Pattern Takes a Picture, The Museum of Modern Art, New York;
Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland; South
London Gallery, UK
2013
Circle Circle, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY *
2012-2014
Black Forest, Tramway, Glasgow; Kunsthaus Zurich, Switzerland; Hammer
Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2011
Weather Center, Kaufmann Repetto, Milan, Italy
2007
Floyd on the Floor, Performa 07 Commission, New York, NY *
2004
Bending Water into a Heart Shape, Kaufmann Repetto, Milan, Italy
2002
Timing Exercises, Kaufmann Repetto, Milan, Italy
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS & SCREENINGS
2024
Motion Capture: Recent Acquisitions in Media and Performance, Walker Art
Center, Minneapolis, MN
2023
Movement and Momentum: A Dance for the Camera, Nottingham
Contemporary, UK
2021
Global Groove: Art, Dance, Performance & Protest, Museum Folkwang,
Essen, Germany *
2016
Art - Music - Dance, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Austria
2011
Danser Sa Vie, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France *
2010
While Bodies Get Mirrored - An Exhibition about Movement, Formalism and
Space, Migros Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland*
2010: Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY *
2009
Dance with Camera, Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia, PA;
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, TX; Scottsdale Museum of
Contemporary Art, AZ *
2003
Girls' Night Out, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA;
Contemporary Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO; Blaffer Art Museum, University
of Houston, TX; Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO; Addison Gallery of
American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA*
2000
Guarene Arte, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy *
Sharon Lockhart+ Kelly Nipper: 2 Artists in 3 Takes, The Walter and
McBean Galleries, San Francisco Art Institute, CA*
SELECTED PRESS
2022
Saunders, Matt and Nipper, Kelly. ROSE MADDER MIRROR TIME MARKER.
Artist book. Los Angeles, CA.
2016
Goldstein, Jennie. "Dance History in Contemporary Visual Art Practice: Kelly
Nipper's Weather Center." TDR: The Drama Review. Summer 2016: 103-21.
2013
Ritson, Alicia. Squaring the Circle. Kelly Nipper: Circle Circle. Brochure.
Annandale-on-Hudson, NY: Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College.
2010
Fiduccia, Joanna. "Kelly Nipper: Composing Movements." MAP - Journeys
in Contemporary Art, #23. Autumn 2010: 68-73.
Velasco, David. "1000 Words: Kelly Nipper." Artforum, March: 198-203.
Mead, Fionn. 2010: Whitney Biennial. Exh. cat. New York, NY: Whitney
Museum of American Art.
2009
Goldberg, Roselee. Everywhere and All at Once: An Anthology of Writings
on Performa 07. Zurich, Switzerland: JRP Ringier.
Porter, Jenelle. Dance with Camera. Exh. cat. Philadelphia, PA: Institute of
Contemporary Art.
2007
La Rocca, Claudia. "Love Takes a Tumble Amid a Brewing Storm." New York
Times, 17 November, 813.
2003
Hofmann, Irene. Girls' Night Out. Exh. cat. Newport Beach, CA: Orange
County Museum of Art.
2000
Helfand, Glen. "Tweeners: Sharon Lockhart and Kelly Nipper Blur
Distinctions Between Art, Film, and Everything Else." San Francisco Bay
Guardian, 12 April.
Moss, Karen. "Kelly Nipper/interval." Guarene Arte 2000. Exh. cat. Turin,
Italy: Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo.
Moss, Karen. Sharon Lockhart + Kelly Nipper: 2 Artists in 3 Takes. Exh. cat.
San Francisco: The Walter and McBean Galleries, San Francisco Art
Institute.
AWARDS & RESIDENCIES
2023 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
2017 Brown Arts Initiative, Brown University, Providence, RI
2013 A-I-R Laboratory, Residency, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski
Castle, Warsaw, Poland
Artist Residency Program, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2007 Tiffany Award, The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, New York, NY
SELECTED
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Migros Museum tor Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland
Sammlung Hauser & Wirth, St. Gallen, Switzerland
Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Turin, Italy
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
TEACHING APPOINTMENTS
2018 2017 2014-2016 2008-2010
2018
Lecturer, Department of Art, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
2017
Visiting Critic, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
2016-2014
Lecturer, School of Architecture and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, Cambridge, MA
2010-2008
Lecturer, Department of Art, California State University, Long Beach, CA