2023 BARBARA HAMMER GRANT FINALIST

BRITTANY NELSON

Brittany Nelson (b. 1984, Great Falls, MT) explores science fiction through 19th-century photographic chemistry techniques and video to address themes of loneliness, isolation, and distance within the queer community and its parallels with space exploration. She is the recipient of a Creative Capital Foundation Grant in Visual Arts and a Theo Westenberger Estate Grant for advancing women in the arts. She has exhibited at Le CAP - Centre d’art Saint Fons (Lyon, France), Fotogalleriet (Oslo, Norway), Die Ecke (Santiago, Chile), Sonnenstube (Lugano, Switzerland), Bonniers Konsthall (Stockholm, Sweden), The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (Detroit, MI) Brooklyn Academy of Music (New York, NY), and The International Print Center (New York, NY). Her work has been featured in publications such as Art in America, Frieze, and The New Yorker.