Born in NYC on December 9th, 1974, I have been painting in oils for over twenty-five years. In 1998, my senior year at SVA, I was smooshed by a taxi and lost the use of my painting hand. Although I muddled through to finish my BFA in 2000 and dabbled a bit afterwards, I had given up hope of making a proper "go" at the art-world. But I couldn't change my spots and in 2006, as a senior MA candidate in Arts Administration at Teachers College, I took "introduction to painting" as a coast-class while I finished my thesis. I haven't left the studio since.
| 2014 | Venn, solo, Tompkins Square, NYPL, NYC – October |
| 2013 | The Crest Hardware Art Show, Crest Hardware, Brooklyn, NY June 8 - August 31 |
| 2013 | Source, Bernard Klevickas & CJ Nye, The Second Avenue Firehouse Gallery and Performance Space, Bay Shore, NY May 1 - April 15 |
| 2011 | Eponymous solo, The George Bruce, NYPL, NYC |
| 2010 | Shave & a Diptych - Two Bits, solo, Barber Bart, NYC |
| 2001 | Eponymous solo, Earth 2 Mars, NYC |
| 2012 | Joie de Vivre, the Hullaballoo Collective at PS Project Space, NYC |
| 2012 | It’s a Small, Small, World, c: Jayson Musson, Family Business, NYC |
| 2011 | Occupy the Walls: A Poster Show, AC Institute, NYC |
| 2011 | The Salon at 904, Brooklyn, NY |
| 2010 | Culture Fix, Emerging Market!, Culture Fix, NYC |
| 2010 | The Unaffordable Art Fair, New York Studio Gallery, NYC |
| 2010 | Power to the People, Feature Inc., NYC |
| 2010 | B.Y.O.A., X Initiative, NYC |
| 2000 | Plural Dimensions, c: Jack Whitten, SVA Gallery Soho, NYC |
| 2013 | Finding Art off the Beaten Path, Deconstruction / Art Contemplations, William Evertson, 5 May |
| 2013 | CJ Nye, Independent Artist, Artist Chat, ArtBookGuy, January |
| 2012 | My Styley Friend: Caroline J. Nye, The Styley |
| 2012 | Catapult Art Mag, 1112.v15, pp. 24-27 |
| 2012 | Artist Profile: CJ Nye, Art in New York City |
| 2012 | A View from the Easel: Part 8, Hyperallergic |
| 2012 | Art Word: CJ Nye, Cincinnati Art Snob |
| 2011 | Portrait of the Artist as a New Yorker: Artist #334, Marc Landas |
| 2011 | Eros, Glasschord, vol. 1:4 |
| 2013 | The Hullaballoo Collective at Fountain Art Fair, NYC – March 8-10 |
| 2013 | Postcards from the Edge, Benefit for Visual AIDS at Sikkema Jenkins & Co., NYC |
| 2012 | The Hullaballoo Collective at Fountain Art Fair, NYC |
| 2012 | Postcards from the Edge, Benefit for Visual AIDS at Cheim & Read, NYC |
| 2011 | Artists and the Economy - Postcard protest to the White House, initiated |
| 2011 | The Billboard Art Project, Savannah GA & Nashville TN |
| 2007 | Columbia University, MA Arts Administration |
| 2000 | School of Visual Arts, BFA |
To know my work, know that I know what I do. Every mark is there for a reason, exactly as it is.
I describe the world as I feel it and as I understand it rationally, in broad strokes.
To find the lexicon of my work, look through the filter of modern painting to the decorative arts: the fluidity of Art Nouveau, the sleekness of Deco, the geometry of the Wiener Werkstatte, the deliberate imperfection of Islamic art, and the graphic tempo of Japanese woodblock prints and screens. Ply that stylistic breadth with the liberty of materiality granted by the Abstract Expressionists.
Then take it further, take it off the picture plane.
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