| Artist | Nick Pedersen | Resides | United States |
| Website | nick-pedersen.com | Medium | Digital Collage Photography |
| Print Shop | nick-pedersen.com/shop | contact@nick-pedersen.com | |
| Representing Gallery | Paradigm Gallery Philadelphia, PA USA | Themes | Climate Change Environmental Anthropocene Conservation Rewilding Nature |
| Follow the Artist | Instagram | Facebook | Behance | Press | nick-pedersen.com/about |
About the artist
Nick Pedersen’s work combines his own photography, digital collage, and printmaking techniques to create elaborate, photorealistic images focusing on environmental issues. A main theme in his work is “beautiful decay,” creating large-scale pieces that reveal a satirically, post-apocalyptic vision of the not-too-distant future.
Nick’s artwork has been shown in galleries across the country and internationally, including the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Paradigm Gallery, Antler Gallery, and UMOCA. He has published two artist books featuring his long-term personal projects Sumeru and Ultima, and many of his images have been recognized with awards from the International Photography Awards, the Fine Art Photography Awards, the Adobe Design Achievement Awards, and the Photoshop Guru Award. As an educator he teaches workshops on photomontage and digital collage, and has lectured at Pratt Institute, NYU Polytechnic Institute, and the University of Utah. Nick has also completed artist residencies at the Banff Center in Canada, the Gullkistan Creative Residency in Iceland, the Taft-Nicholson Center in Montana, and the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art to work on his environmental projects.
Artwork Themes & Subject Matter
Nick Pedersen’s work explores environmental issues of the Anthropocene, an age of human impact on the natural world. From climate change and more extreme weather events to loss of habitat, biodiversity, and species extinctions, our planet is quickly approaching a strange and unpredictable future. Through his work, Nick has created a series of artistic explorations into the scientific concept of the ‘environmental uncanny’. This is a term referring to the collective denial of humanity going about business as usual in the face of these slow moving processes and unalterable changes to the world. In response, his artwork plays off of older forms of beauty in art making, referencing sublime landscape paintings, animal studies and still lifes, fanciful wallpaper, and textiles. His images appropriate these picturesque styles and idealized nature imagery to create elaborate juxtapositions with subversive elements from modern civilization. Nick’s projects focus on concepts like the reclamation of nature and rewilding the modern world, creating a contemplative series of narrative imagery and art installations that question the legacy modern humanity will be handing down to future generations. He portrays this as an epic struggle and in his work these forces clash in theatrical, post-apocalyptic battlegrounds.
Press
Nick Pedersen’s works have been published in notable magazines and online sources including Vogue, Create Magazine, Juxtapoz, After-Capture, My Modern Metropolis, PBS, and Luerzer’s Archive.
Upcoming Exhibitions
| When | Exhibition | Gallery |
| January 2024 | Group exhibition – “Wild” PxP Contemporary | Paradigm Gallery Philadelphia, PA USA |
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Education
2011 – MFA in Digital Arts, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York, United States
2005 – BFA in Photography, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2021
Slow Apocalypse, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, UT. United States
2018
Floating World, Urban Arts Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT. United States
2014
Works by Nick Pedersen, Paradigm Gallery, Philadelphia, PA. United States
2012
Ultima, The Slingluff Gallery, Philadelphia, PA. United States
2011
Sumeru, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY. United States
2010
The Reclamation, The Slingluff Gallery, Philadelphia, PA. United States
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022
Ecosystem X, Mozaik Philanthropy, Los Angeles, CA. United States
Glam, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, UT. United States
2021
90th Anniversary Gala, UMOCA, Salt Lake City, UT. United States
2020
Myth in Memory, Finch Lane Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT. United States
TEN: Anniversary Exhibition, Paradigm Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Create Magazine: From the Pages, Paradigm Gallery, Philadelphia, PA. United States
2019
Affordable Art Fair, Vast, New York City, NY. United States
Photobook Exhibition, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA. United States
Art Against Doom, Copper Palate Press, Salt Lake City, UT. United States
Transcontinental, Rio Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT. United States
2018
Affordable Art Fair, Vast, New York City, NY. United States
Unnatural History, LIC-A Plaxall Gallery, New York City, NY. United States
Ant on Your Southwest Leg, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY. United States
Sea of Change, Volcom Garden, Austin, TX. United States
2017
From Digital and Back, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York City, NY. United States
Snap to Grid, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles, CA. United States
Bloom, Arch Enemy Arts, Philadelphia, PA. United States
Swallowed by the Jungle, Arch Enemy Arts, Philadelphia, PA. United States
2016
Image-Based Art in the 21st Century, City Hall, Philadelphia, PA. United States
Panorama: Digital Arts Festival, Main Line Art Center, Haverford, PA. United States
Enlightened Earth, Main Line Art Center, Haverford, PA. United States
Truth To Power, Rock the Vote DNC Convention, Philadelphia, PA. United States
Decay, Antler Gallery, Portland, OR. United States
Growth, Paradigm Gallery, Philadelphia, PA. United States
