Working on the Bubble Drawings at La Mascina di San Cresci Artist Residency Italy, July 2009.
Biography
Nikki Renee Anderson creates ceramic sculptures and installations that explore the feminine experience based on her personal history.
Anderson has exhibited extensively including a solo show at the Elmhurst Art Museum in 2010. Her
work has also been shown at the 56th Premio Faenza Competition at the International Museum of Ceramics in Faenza, Italy; the 2009 NCECA Biennial at the Arizona State University Museum Ceramics Research Center, Tempe, AZ; The 18th San Angelo National Ceramic Competition at the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, San Angelo, TX; The Koehnline Museum of Art, Oakton Community College, Skokie, IL; Visualizing TRANS at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Visual Culture Conference; Chicago Sculpture International Biennale at FLATFILE Galleries; SOFA Chicago 2004 with Dubhe Carreno Gallery; The Hillwood Art Museum, Long Island University, Brookville, NY; Art Chicago 2003, Special Project Space, Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL; Istanbul Museum of Contemporary Art (online exhibition), Istanbul, Turkey; and The Painted Bride Art Center, Philadelphia, PA.
She has been an artist-in-residence at La Macina di San Cresci in Italy, A.I.R. Vallauris in France and Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, VT. She has an upcoming residency at the Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts in Newcastle, ME in the summer of 2010.
Anderson's work has been reviewed by Helen Harrison in the New York Times and by Lauren Viera in the Chicago Tribune. Her work has also been included in American Craft Magazine, Ceramics Monthly, Time Out Chicago, Chicago Artists’ News and the Chicago Sun-Times.
Her awards include an International Arts Exchange Grant from the Illinois Arts Council, three CAAP grants from the City of Chicago, full funding to the Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, a full fellowship to the Vermont Studio Center; Best Faculty Presentation, Voices, Visions and Visionaries Gender Conference, College of Lake County; and the Maurice Goldberger Graduate Fellowship, Stony Brook University.
She regularly lectures about her work and has presented at the Elmhurst Art Museum in Elmhurst, IL; the International Museum of Ceramic Arts in Faenza, Italy; La Macina di San Cresci Artist Residency in Greve, Italy; the 2007 College Art Association Conference in New York, NY, New School University in New York, NY and Long Island University in Brookville, NY.
She received an MFA from Stony Brook University and a BFA from Drake University. She has taught courses in Ceramics, Sculpture, Installation and Drawing at Stony Brook University, Columbia College Chicago, Harper College, Moraine Valley Community College and College of Lake County. Anderson lives and works in Chicago.
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