{{short description|American artist, b. 1970}} {{Use mdy dates|date=September 2025}} {{Infobox artist | name = Tucker Nichols | image = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1970|5|14}} | birth_place = | education = {{Plainlist| * Brown University (BA) * Yale University (MA) }} | field = Drawing, painting, sculpture, books, performance | movement = | works = | website = {{URL|tuckernichols.com}} }}
'''Tucker Nichols''' (born May 14, 1970) is an American artist. His artwork includes drawings, paintings, sculptures, books, in-gallery cinema and performance spaces,<ref name="sfmoma">{{cite web|title=Stage Presence: Theatricality in Art and Media|url=https://www.sfmoma.org/exhibition/stage-presence/|access-date=March 10, 2021|website=SFMOMA|language=en-US}}</ref> as well as large scale works on walls and storefront windows. He has a BA from Brown University and an MA from Yale University, both in the history of Chinese Painting. He lives near San Francisco.
== Career == === Exhibitions and museum work === Tucker Nichols' work has been featured at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://openspace.sfmoma.org/tag/official-notice/|title=OFFICIAL NOTICE Archives}}</ref> the Contemporary Jewish Museum, the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, the Drawing Center, Den Frie Museum in Copenhagen, the Denver Art Museum, and the Aldrich Art Museum.
In 2012, Nichols was commissioned to design the performance space and signage for ''Stage Presence, Theatricality in Art and Media'' at SFMOMA.<ref name="sfmoma" />
Nichols has been commissioned to create artwork for several hospitals, including UCSF Medical Center in San Francisco and the Stanford Hospital in Stanford, California.
=== Publications === Nichols' drawings have been published in ''The New Yorker'', ''The New York Times'', ''McSweeney's'', ''The New York Review of Books'', ''Lapham's Quarterly'', and ''The Thing Quarterly''.
''Crabtree'', a children's book by Jon and Tucker Nichols, was published by McSweeney's in 2013.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://store.mcsweeneys.net/products/crabtree-1|title=Crabtree|website=McSweeney's|access-date=September 16, 2025}}</ref> ''This Bridge Will Not Be Gray'', a book by Dave Eggers and Tucker Nichols, was published by McSweeney's in 2015.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://store.mcsweeneys.net/products/this-bridge-will-not-be-gray|title=This Bridge Will Not Be Gray|website=McSweeney's|access-date=September 16, 2025}}</ref> ''Flowers for Things I Don't Know How to Say'' was published by Chronicle Books in 2024. ''Mostly Everything: The Art of Tucker Nichols'' will be published by McSweeney's in July 2025.
=== COVID-19 project === In the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, Nichols launched ''Flowers for Sick People'', a multimedia project<ref>{{cite AV media|title=Tucker Nichols: Flowers for Sick People|date=February 25, 2021|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyAyH2oDgF4|archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211220/CyAyH2oDgF4|archive-date=December 20, 2021|url-status=live|language=en|access-date=March 10, 2021}}</ref> connecting patients and their loved ones. This project has been featured at SFMOMA, the Palo Alto Art Center, and on the NewsHour on PBS nationwide.
=== Other activities === Tucker Nichols has served as an artist trustee at the Headlands Center for the Arts and most recently, SFMOMA. He is represented by Gallery 16 in San Francisco.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://vimeo.com/65238019|title=Tucker Nichols "Rocks & Plants"|website=Vimeo}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://vimeo.com/23555757|title=Blow up|date=May 10, 2011|website=Vimeo}}</ref>
== Selected exhibitions == * SFMOMA, San Francisco, ''Close to Home, Creativity in Crisis''. March 6 – September 5, 2021.<ref>{{cite web|title=Close to Home|url=https://www.sfmoma.org/exhibition/close-to-home/|access-date=March 10, 2021|website=SFMOMA|language=en-US}}</ref>
== References == {{Reflist}}
== External links == * {{Official website|http://www.tuckernichols.com/}} * [https://www.anonymouspostcard.org/ Anonymous Postcard]
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