Exhibitions

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Solo Exhibitions

2025Nils Karsten – Out of Nowhere, Ubu Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2024Uncarving History, Atlantic Highlands Arts Council, NJ
2023The Keeper, Marathon Gallery, Ellenville, NY
2020Holidays in the Sun... Be Back Never!, Ubu Gallery, New York, NY
2020Carving History – Album Cover Prints by Nils Karsten, SVA, New York, NY
2017Here Are the Keys II, Miyako Yoshinaga Gallery, New York, NY
2017The Wall, Scholes Street Studio, Brooklyn, NY
2016Beneath the Dark Wide Sky, Second Story Art Gallery, Atlantic Highlands, NJ
2016Here Are the Keys, OzasaHayashi, Kyoto, Japan
2015Cutting Room, Pearl Lam Galleries, Hong Kong
2012Suburbia Hamburg, 1983, Churner and Churner, New York, NY
20111969, 1970, 1971, The Bogart Salon, Brooklyn, NY
2011Nils Karsten, Ubu Gallery, New York, NY
2011Can’t Find my Way Home, Illuminated Metropolis, New York, NY
2010Collagen & Zeichnungen, Anke Richter Galerie, Friedrichstadt, Germany
2007dunkel, dunkel, hell, hell, Marvelli Gallery, New York, NY
2006Heaven Has No Happy Ending, Marvelli Gallery, New York, NY
200560 Seconds in Heaven, Marvelli Gallery, New York, NY

Selected Group Exhibitions

2026The World Is The Work, benefit auction and exhibition, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
2026DRAW: Language of the Hand / Broken Links, Blue Galleries, Boise State University, Boise, ID — participating artist; co-curator of Broken Links
2026still utopia: broken links, curated by Aga Ousseinov, Simonetta Moro, Brian Novatny, Nils Karsten, Held Line Space with Gallery MC, New York, NY
2025Free Style, curated by Brett DePalma, Garner Arts Center, Garnerville, NY
2023DRAW – Point to Point, Frost Art Museum, Miami, FL
2022unSEEN: The Unpredictable Forms of Drawing, Dots Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia
2022DRAW – What Is Contemporary Drawing and What Can It All Be?, Museum of Fine Arts, Split, Croatia
2020Still Utopia: Islands, Gallery MC, New York, NY
2019Under Construction: Collage from the Mint Museum, The Mint, Charlotte, NC
2019Distance, Works on Paper by Skowhegan Alumni, Dorsky Gallery, LIC, NY
2018Tribute to Viborg, The Museum of Contemporary Collage Art, Viborg, Denmark
2017Nils Karsten + Takashi Kunitani, mhPROJECTnyc, New York, NY
2015RE(a)D, Nathalie Karg Gallery, New York, NY
2015OzasaHayashi Gallery, Kyoto, Japan
2015What Does Art Add?, City Without Walls, Newark, NJ
2015Drawing Show: Crossing the Lines, Garrison Art Center, Garrison, NY
2014The Last Picture Show, Churner and Churner, New York, NY
2014Somewheres & Nowheres, IPCNY, New York, NY
2014Hrönir: Un-Lost Things, Brooklyn Fire Proof, Brooklyn, NY
2014Dieu Donné Benefit, Dieu Donné Gallery, New York, NY
2014The Age of Collage, Feinkunst Krüger, Hamburg, Germany
2013Incubarte, Museo Valenciano de la Ilustración y la Modernidad, Valencia, Spain
2013The Age of Collage, Gestalten Space, Berlin, Germany
2013Come Together: Surviving Sandy, Dedalus Foundation, New York, NY
2013Selections from the Gallery Collection, Ubu Gallery, New York, NY
2012Utopia/Dystopia, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX
2011Jam Session, Islip Art Museum, Long Island, NY
2011Till All Is Green, Miyako Yoshinaga art prospects, New York, NY
201185th Annual International Competition, The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA
2011Prints, Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts and Science, Loveladies, NJ
2010Tenth Anniversary Event, IPCNY, New York, NY
2010Untitled (plate tectonics), LMAKprojects, New York, NY
2010Momenta Benefit 2010, Momenta Art Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2010New Prints 2010/Winter, IPCNY, New York, NY
2009Octet, Pera Museum, Istanbul, Turkey
2009Octet: Codes and Contexts in Recent Art, SVA Gallery, New York, NY
2007Pricked: Extreme Embroidery, Museum of Arts & Design, New York, NY
2007Crossovers, Contrasts Gallery, Shanghai, China
2007Nightmares of Summer, Marvelli Gallery, New York, NY
2005Paradise Lost, Marvelli Gallery, New York, NY
2005Benaddiction, Goliath Visual Space, Brooklyn, NY
2004Beginning Here: 101 Ways, Visual Arts Gallery, New York, NY
2004Pickup Lines, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
2004Figure Out, Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA
2004superSalon, Samson Projects, Boston, MA
2004Out of Heaven, Voxpopuli, Philadelphia, PA
2004Raising the Brow, Earl McGrath Gallery, New York, NY
2004Raising the Brow, Earl McGrath Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2003Works on Paper, Marvelli Gallery, New York, NY
2003Star67, Brooklyn, NY
2003Goethe-Institut, New York, NY
2003Were you alright yesterday?, White Columns, New York, NY
2002Benaddiction, Goliath Visual Space, Brooklyn, NY
2002Band of Outsiders, HallSpace, Boston, MA
2001The worst of Gordon Pym continued..., Printed Matter Inc., New York, NY
2001Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2001Flatfiles, Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY
2001Dirty Drawings, Tobey Fine Arts, New York, NY
1999Traveling Goliath, Hamburg, Germany
1998Visual Arts Gallery, New York, NY

Curatorial Projects

2026Broken Links, co-curator, Blue Galleries, Boise State University, Boise, ID
2026still utopia: broken links, co-curator, Gallery MC / Held Line Space, New York, NY
1998–2004Goliath Visual Space, nonprofit artist-run space, Brooklyn, NY — co-founder / organizer

Lectures, Workshops & Professional Activities

2024Taiwan International Print Biennial, Head of Jury Committee / Juror and invited lecture, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
2024Pratt Institute, Visiting Artist Lecture, Brooklyn, NY
2020–2026School of Visual Arts, Senior Studio Visit Advisor, New York, NY
2020Vermont College of Fine Arts, Visiting Artist Lecture
2018Taipei National University of the Arts, Department of Fine Arts, Visiting Artist Lecture and Printmaking Workshop, Taipei, Taiwan
2013Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), Visiting Artist Lecture and student studio visits, Philadelphia, PA
2008–2020Vermont College of Fine Arts, Graduate Mentor, MFA program

Public Collections

Frost Art Museum, Miami, FL
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
The Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC
Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan

Selected Bibliography

2025Out of Nowhere, monograph, Snap Collective, Germany; essays by Thomas Micchelli, Steve Locke, and Don Eddy
2015Pang, Nils Karsten Solo Exhibition, East Touch Magazine, December
2014Nicola López, essay for exhibition brochure, Somewheres & Nowheres, November
2014The New Yorker, The Last Picture Show, November
2013Rob Shuster, Best in Show: Gone Vicious, The Village Voice, January
2011Don Eddy, Exhibition essay on album cover woodblock prints, April
2007McFadden, D., essay for exhibition catalogue, Pricked: Extreme Embroidery, November
2006Cohen, David, Nightmares of Summer, The New York Sun, June
2005Micchelli, Thomas, Heaven Has no Happy Ending, The Brooklyn Rail, December
2005Baker, R.C., Heaven Has no Happy Ending, The Village Voice, November
2005Eddy, Don, essay for exhibition catalogue, Heaven Has no Happy Ending, October
2005Myers, Holly, Deliberate Irreverence, Los Angeles Times, January
2004Fallon, Roberta, Figure Out, Philadelphia Weekly, May
2004Fujimori, Manami, Out of Heaven, Figaro japon, May
2004Rudick, Nicole, 60 Seconds in Heaven, Artforum, March
2004Myers, Holly, Deliberate Irreverence, Los Angeles Times, January
2003Johnson, Ken, Were you alright yesterday?, The New York Times, February
2003Goddard, Donald, NY Art World, March
2002McQuaid, Cate, Band of Outsiders, The Boston Globe, March
2002Hill, Shawn, Art New England, April

Education

2003Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpelier, Vermont – Master of Fine Arts, painting
2002The Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine
1999School of Visual Arts, New York, NY – Bachelor of Fine Arts with honors, painting
1995Journeyman Certificate in Cabinetmaking, Berlin, Germany