Curriculum Vitae
Nikolas Soren Goodich
b. 1969, Los Angeles
Education
- Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA. Attended 2017 - 2019
BFA - Major: Painting and Printmaking
- School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL - Attended Fall 1998 - Major: Painting
- School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA - Attended 1989 - 1990 - Major: Painting
- Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI - Attended 1987 - 1989 - Major: Painting
Exhibitions
- Solo Exhibition, Luminous Symmetries II, Coagula Curatorial Gallery, Solo Booth @ Context Art Miami 2021, Nov 29 - Dec 5, 2021, Miami, FL
- Solo Exhibition, Luminous Symmetries, Coagula Curatorial Gallery, Solo Booth @ LA Art Show,
July 29 - Aug 4, 2021, Los Angeles, CA
- Group Exhibition, We The People, Leonides Molinar Gallery, Nov. 2nd, 2020, New York, NY
- Group Exhibition, California Printmakers Society 106th Annual Exhibition, Nov. 14 - Winter
2021, Piedmont Center for the Arts, Piedmont, CA
- Group Exhibition, Reflections, Arc Gallery, May 16 - June 27, 2020, San Francisco, CA
- Solo Booth Exhibition, Startup Artfair LA, Venice, CA, February 14, 15 and 16, 2020.
Selected Jurors: Peter Frank, Critic - Andi Campagnone, Director MOAH, LA - Tyler Stallings,
Director, Orange Coast College Doyle Arts Pavillion, LA
- Group Exhibition, Bg Gallery, LA Art Show@ Art Fair Booth, Feb 2020
- Group Exhibition, Ada Gallery, Richmond, VA, Everyone In The Pool, June - Aug 2018
- Group Exhibition, Chou Souvage Gallery, Ontario, Canada 2017
- Group Exhibition, Spectrum Gestalt IV, June 2017, Bliecher/Gorman Gallery, 2017
Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA
- Two-Person Exhibition, Berlin Gallery Weekend, Berlin, Germany 2016
- Solo Exhibition, Corporate & Museum Frame Gallery, Richmond, VA 2015
- Solo Exhibition, Anamnesis and Aporia, Gallery 169, Santa Monica, CA 2014
- Group Exhibition, The New Testosterone, Coagula Curatorial Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Curated by Mat Gleason, 2013
- Group Exhibition, Orbetello Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2005
- Group Exhibition, Molecular Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2004
- Two Person Exhibition, Nature Gallery, Charlottesville, VA 2003
Collaborations made with photographer Nellie Appleby
- Group Exhibition, A Multicultural Vision: Selections from the Charles Rowell Collection
J. Wayne Stark Galleries, Texas A&M University, 2002
- Group Exhibition, Clary-Miner Gallery, Buffalo, NY ` 1992
- Group Exhibition, New New York, Ambassador Gallery, New York, NY 1991
- Group Exhibition, AS/220, Providence, RI ` 1990
Honors / Grants / Scholarships
- Juried member of The California Society of Printmakers as of January 2020
- VCU, Out of State Student Scholarship, Fall 2018 and Spring 2019
- VCUarts, Painting and Printmaking Department, Gerald Donato Scholarship Fall 2018
- VCUarts Deans List: Fall 2017, Spring and Fall 2018, and Spring 2019
- Tau Sigma Honors Society membership 2017 - onward
Commissions
- East LA Polyglot, mixed media plexiglass assemblage lightbox painting, 8’ x12’, 2003 for Downtown LA artist loft building owned by Jerry Schneiderman
- Transluscent Polyphonic, two sided mixed media plexiglass assemblage painting, 2002 16” x 4” ( two sided ), for Amoeba Records, Hollywood, CA
- Donkey Taxi, mixed media plexiglass assemblage lightbox painting, 7’ x 5’, made 2001 in collaboration with photographer/painter Nellie Appleby for Jim Budman at Budman Studios, New York, NY
- Primal Scene, mixed media on panel, 12’ x 8’, made in 2000 for Crossroads High School of the Arts and Sciences, Santa Monica, CA
Bibliography
- RVAmag, March 8th, 2018, Richmond VA - By Andrew Goetzinger for online magazine
https://rvamag.com/art/veteran-mixed-media-artist-nikolas-goodich-discusses-returning-to-vcu-the-impact-on-his-work.html
- Not Random Art, Interview, Issue 4, February 2017, Pages 68 -75, Online 2017 - magazine, Oslo, Norway and Glasgow, Scotland
https://view.joomag.com/not-random-art/0329729001472212611
Print Media
- Making Callalloo: 25 Years of Black Literature, Edited by Charles Henry Rowell
St. Martins Press, New York, NY
Jacket Illustration: Blue Man, oil on canvas, 4.5’ x3.5’, 1990
- Callalloo, Volume 22, Number 1, Edited by Charles Henry Rowell, Johns Hopkins 1999
University Press, Baltimore, MD
Cover: Blue Man, oil on canvas, 4.5’ x3.5’, 1990