Nicholas Pollack is a photographer based in New York whose recent monograph Meadow (2022) is published by Hirmer Verlag of Munich. His works have been exhibited internationally and are held in collections including the Museum of the City of New York and the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University. In 2016, he was nominated for an ICP Infinity Award, MACK First Book Award, and he was shortlisted at Self Publish Riga. He published a monograph of his celebrated project Nothing Gold Can Stay (2015) which can be found in numerous collections including the Whitney Museum of American Art Library and the Museum of Modern Art Library. Publications that have featured his work include Juxtapoz Magazine, Vice, and Vogue.
Contact
info@nicholaspollack.com
Education
MFA in Photography, University of Hartford, 2015
BLA in Literature and Photography, Sarah Lawrence College, 2010
Selected Exhibitions
But Still, It Turns: Recent Photography from the World, International Center of Photography, New York, NY, February 4 - August 15, 2021
Nothing Gold Can Stay, Space Place, Nizhny Tagil, Ural, Russia, March 19 - April 2, 2021
(in)visibility, LATITUDE, Chicago, Il, June 3 - July 1, 2019
Palm* Photo Prize, theprintspace Gallery, London, UK, May 14-17, 2019
Summer Sun Day Dream, Silvereyelab, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, July 15, 2018
Subjective Objective: A Century of Social Photography, Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, September 5, 2017 – January 7, 2018
Is Photography Enough?, Vermont Center for Photography, Brattleboro, VT, November 3-26, 2017
Cloud Nine, Gallery Aferro, Newark, NJ, June 2017
I Told You So, video reel, Republic Gallery, Photomonth - East London Photography Festival, London, UK, November 2016
Self Publish Riga, Railway History Museum, Riga, Latvia, May - June 2016
In Our Time, Baxter Street at the Camera Club of New York, New York, NY, June 2016
Super 8, Gallery Aferro, Newark, NJ, June 2016
In Our Time, The Joseloff Gallery,University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT, August 2015
Even The Edges, Kominek Gallery, Berlin, Germany, May 2014
Along The Bronx River, The Aish Center Gallery, New York, NY, April - May 2013
Publications
Meadow. Hirmer Verlag, Munich, 2022
But Still, It Turns. Paul Graham (ed.), Mack Books, London, 2021
Subjective Objective. Donna Gustafson (ed.), Hirmer Verlag, Munich, 2017
Nothing Gold Can Stay. Self-published, New York, 2015
Even The Edges. aG_Halide and Kominek Books, Berlin, 2014
Awards & Honors
Urbanautica Institute Awards, winner, 2022
Faculty Development Grant, Hartford Art School, 2021
Renée Samuels Grant, Hartford Art School, 2021
Palm* Photo Prize, shortlisted, 2019
ICP Infinity Award, nominee, 2016
MACK First Book Award, nominee, 2016
Travel Stipend, Hartford Art School, 2014
Merit Award, Hartford Art School, 2014
Brooks Fellowship, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, 2012
Selected Press, Features, Writings, etc
”Nicholas Pollack: Meadow”, Nowhere Diary, November 15, 2022
Ryan, Charlie, "Yvie Oddly I You, Over There! Kneel Down and Kiss the Ring!", Flaunt Magazine, October 22, 2019
Fuchs, Stephanie, "Aldis Hodge Wants His Fiction to Change the Real World", The Last Magazine, July 22, 2019
Read, Bridget, "Who's Afraid of the Bernie Bros?", Vogue, March 4, 2019
Pollack, Nicholas, "Photographs of Summer Love", VICE, August 17, 2018
Nastasi, Alison, "Photos That Capture the Vulnerability and Complexities of Teendom in Newark, New Jersey", Flavorwire, May 13, 2017
"Nothing Gold Can Stay", Booooooom, May 12, 2017
Sanders, Carson, "Nothing Gold Can Stay", Aint-Bad, April 8, 2017
Cabiscol, Laura, "The Fleeting Beauty of Youth", METAL Magazine, November 14, 2016
"Nothing Gold Can Stay", Phases Magazine, November 13, 2016
"The Boys of Branch Brook Park in Newark", Positive Magazine, October 4, 2016
Todisco, Matteo, "Nicholas Pollack is talking to the youth of Newark", C41, September 22, 2016
Ohana, Maëla, "Nothing Gold Can Stay", Archive Collective Magazine, September 20, 2016
"Nicholas Pollack's Nothing Gold Can Stay", Juxtapoz Magazine, April 22, 2016
Grahame, Julie, "Nicholas Pollack: Nothing Gold Can Stay," aCurator, March 17, 2016
Cherry, Jonathan, Mull It Over, interview, February 11, 2016
"Nothing Gold Can Stay", YET magazine, January 27, 2016
Interleaves, published by Oranbeg Press, Brooklyn, New York, in print, December 2015
"Nicholas Pollack," Mossless Magazine blog, November 6, 2015
"The Bronx River", Landscape Stories, Issue 12 "The River", December, 2013
"A Photographer Finds Peace Along The Recovering Bronx River”, The Huffington Post, January 9, 2013
"A Conversation with David Maisel", Daylight, February 23, 2010