About

David Nasca is a Chicago-based visual artist working primarily in sculpture and ceramics. His work draws on living and extinct organisms as a lens for exploring themes of reimagined biology, queer futurism, and personal fantasy.
Born Buffalo, NY, 1990
Lives and works in Pilsen, Chicago, IL

Education

  • 2012 BA with honors in Visual Arts, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
  • 2008-2010 Deep Springs College, Deep Springs, CA

Selected Exhibitions

  • 2020 Upcoming solo show, Leather Archives and Museum, Chicago, IL
  • 2019 Shut Up Stone Mountian, Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago, IL
  • 2019 Broken English, s+s Project, Chicago, IL
  • 2019 Hot Seep (solo window exhibition), Roots and Culture, Chicago, IL
  • 2019 Broken English, s+s Project, Chicago, IL
  • 2018 Gødbottom, Inferno, New York, NY
  • 2018 Impromptu, Rubberneck Gallery, Chicago, IL
  • 2018 Plants and Animals, Learning Machine, Chicago, IL
  • 2018 Waterworld, Glass Curtain Gallery at Columbia College, Chicago, IL
  • 2017 Gødbottom, Condo Association, Chicago, IL
  • 2017 Material Kink, Leather Archives and Museum, Chicago, IL
  • 2017 Soft Sculpture, International Museum of Surgical Science, Chicago, IL
  • 2016 Homoccult 2.0, Centro Cultural del México Contemporáneo and ArtSpace México, Mexico City, Mexico
  • 2016 Angel Egg, naomiFINEARTS, Chicago, IL
  • 2015 Cuerpos Consumidos, Centro Cultural del México Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico
  • 2015 Aesthetic Disorder, Archer Beach House, Chicago, IL
  • 2014 Walk All Over Me, Pinky Swear, Chicago, IL
  • 2014 Art Jocks, Church of Templehead, Chicago, IL
  • 2014 P o r n A g a i n, Bijou Theatre, Chicago, IL
  • 2013 PR3MIUM ÖPT!ONZ, Mana Contemporary. Chicago, IL
  • 2012 The Great Refusal: Taking on New Queer Aesthetics, Sullivan Galleries at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
  • 2012 something to press up against (BA thesis exhibition), Logan Center Gallery at the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
  • 2012 Den, Studio 411, Provincetown, MA
  • 2011 Origins, South Side Hub of Production, Chicago, IL

Residencies

  • 2020 Upcoming David Whitehouse Research Residency for Artists, Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY
  • 2018 ACRE Residency, Steuben, WI

Teaching

  • 2020 Upcoming CAPE (Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education) teaching artist, Chicago High School for Agricultural Sciences, Chicago, IL
  • 2019 Teaching artist, Marwen, Chicago, IL
  • 2018-19 AP Sculpture and Sculpture II instructor, The Chicago High School for the Arts, Chicago, IL
  • 2017 Workshop series at The Leather Archives and Museum, Chicago, IL

Grants and Awards

  • 2019 Pets in the Classroom Grant
  • 2018 Chicago Department of Cultural and Special Events Grant
  • 2018 Chicago Department of Cultural and Special Events Grant
  • 2012 Louis Sudler Prize in the Performing and Creative Arts

Curatorial Projects

  • 2020 Upcoming Curator and director of Science (is not) Fair (supported by DCASE)
  • 2019 Member of programming council, Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago, IL
  • 2016-19 Co-curator/director at Showboat Gallery, Chicago, IL
  • 2014-16 Co-curator/director at 1618 W 17th, Chicago, IL
  • 2016 PiNKEYE, in conjunction with naomi FINEARTS, Chicago, IL
  • 2015 Currency Exxxchange, in conjunction with S+S Project, Chicago, IL

Contact

Studio visits in Pilsen, Chicago by appointment
[email protected]