Nickie Gunning
40 W. Howard St, Suite# 116a, Pontiac, MI, 48340
[email protected]
nickiegunning.com
Education:
2021 M.F.A. Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
2015 B.F.A. Corcoran School of Art + Design at The George Washington University, Washington, DC
2011 A.S. with distinction in Fine Arts at Suffolk County Community College, Selden, NY
Solo & Duo Exhibitions:
2027 TBD, Mouse Gallery, Detroit MI (Spring)
2026 Knock First (Duo), Boyer Campbell Building, Detroit, MI (ft Maddie Gordon)
2024 Fluid Identity: A Ceramic Exploration (Solo), Steeple Hall Gallery, Highland, MI
2018 New Materials (Duo), Cross Mackenzie Gallery, Washington, DC (ft Greg Minah)
2015 The Nickies (Solo), Cross Mackenzie Gallery, Washington, DC
Group Exhibitions:
2027 Mighty Queer/ Real Detroit 3rd Biannual, TBD, Detroit MI (Anticipating)
2026 Queertroit, Swords onto Plowshares, Detroit, MI
Human Form: An Exhibition of Sculpture, Buckham Gallery, Flint, MI
Pontiac Art Crawl, Saginaw St, Downtown Pontiac, MI
NCECA 60th Annual Cup Exhibition and Fundraiser, Huntington Place Convention Center, Detroit MI
Cranbrook Ceramics Alumni, Chrysler Building, Detroit MI
Ceramics x Fiber, Boyer Campbell Building, Detroit MI
Roy Presents, Roy G Biv Gallery, Columbus, OH
On the Grid Off the Grid, Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, NJ
2025 5th Annual Open Studio Exhibition, 40 Howards Artist Guild, Pontiac, MI
Thumb Area Artists Exhibition, Starkweather Arts Center Romeo MI
Wooden and Earthen, Bonfield Gallery, Traverse City, MI
Hysterical!, Detroit Repertory Theatre, Detroit, MI
2024 80th Annual Wabash Valley Exhibition, Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute, IN
Mighty Real Queer Detroit: I’ll Be Your Mirror, Gallerie Camile, Detroit MI
Queer 313, Swords into Plowshares, Detroit, MI
2024 Spring Salon, Detroit Contemporary, Detroit, MI
WHAT THE HECK?!, Tall Grass Gallery, Chicago, IL
2023 Juried Members Exhibition, Springfield Museum of Art, OH
Hot Days, Cool Art, PARC Art Gallery, Plymouth, MI
Kaleidoscope, Pontiac Creative Art Center, Pontiac, MI
The LBGTQ+ Artist in Michigan, Lansing Art Gallery, Lansing, MI
2023 Spring Salon, Detroit Contemporary, Detroit, MI
Currents, NCECA Cup Fundraiser & Exhibition, Cincinnati, OH
2022 Mighty Real Queer Detroit: Queer Imagination, Anton Art Center, MT Clemens, MI
Mighty Real Queer Detroit: Queer Imagination, Collected Detroit, Detroit, MI
2021 Cranbrook Art Museum, Graduate Degree Exhibition, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Studio, Cranbrook Academy of Art, MI, Online Exhibition
2020 All Art + No Play, Forum Gallery, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Studio, Cranbrook Academy of Art, MI, Online Exhibition
3605, NCECA, Richmond, VA [canceled due to Covid-19]
2019 Memory Matter, Forum Gallery Bloomfield Hills, MI
Object Block, Forum Gallery, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Best Of, Cross Mackenzie Gallery, Washington, DC
2018 Mid Atlantic New Painting 2018 Juried Show, Ridderhof Martin Gallery, Fredericksburg, VA
2017 Wild Animal Drawing/Painting Exhibition for City Wildlife, Anaba Project Space, Bethesda, MD
2016 3rd Biennial Maryland Regional Juried Exhibition, UMUC, MD
Life Sized, Gallery 1301, Baltimore, MD
2015 Art South Hampton, courtesy of Cross Mackenzie Gallery, South Hampton, NY
New Talent, Cross Mackenzie Gallery, Washington, DC
Next Collateral, Gallery 1301, Baltimore MD
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Next, Washington, DC
Then & Now; 27th Annual Ceramics Exhibition, White Halls Gallery, Washington, D.C.
2014 Pilot: Fine Art Thesis I, Gallery 31, Washington, DC
Heat Spectrum, Corcoran Gallery of Art and Design, White Halls Gallery, Washington, DC
This Is, Corcoran Gallery of Art and Design, White Walls Gallery, Washington, DC
2013 From Action to Meaning, Corcoran Gallery of Art and Design, White Walls Gallery, Washington, DC
Media/ Message, Corcoran Gallery of Art and Design, White Walls Gallery, Washington, DC
2012 Corcoran Gallery of Art, Performance Bridge, Three Corcoran Students, Washington, DC
(ft. Ashley VanGemeran, and Alix Malt)
2011 On Display, Maurice N. Flecker Memorial Art Gallery, Selden, NY
Artist Residencies:
2026: The Peanut Factory, Edenton, NC (forthcoming)
2025 Wildacres Retreat Residency, Little Switzerland, NC
2024 L.A. Studio+Art14 Residency, Patton, PA
2023 ArtFarm Nebraska, Marquette, NE
Awards, Grants, and Scholarships
2025 CERF+ Get Ready Grant Recipient
2024 Swope Art Museum, Frank Swaim Award of Honor, Juror Clifford Tresner
2020 Cranbrook Academy of Art, Merit Scholarship,
2018 Mid Atlantic Merit Award, Ridderhof Martin Gallery, Juror Kimberli Gant,
2015 Ceramics A.R.T. Award (Ambitious Risk Taker) for Outstanding Achievement in Ceramic Art
2015 Ethel Lorraine Bernstein Memorial Award, Corcoran School of the Arts and Design
2014 Ceramic Rookie of the Year Award, Corcoran College of Art and Design
2012 Andy Warhol Foundation Scholarship, Corcoran College of Art and Design
Artist Talks/ Visiting Artist:
2024: A Queer One, Artist Talk Gallerie Camile, Detroit, MI - Exhibition Mighty Queer/ Real Detroit 2nd Biennial
2024: Fluid Identity, Artist Talk, Steeple Hall Gallery, Highland, MI
2023: Visiting Artist- Portfolio Reviews, Cranbrook Teen Art Council, Kingswood Upper School Campus, Bloomfield Hills, MI
2022: Visiting Artist, Cranbrook Teen Art Council, Cranbrook Upper Schools, Bloomfield Hills, MI
2022: Artist Talk, Anton Art Center, Mt Clemens, MI - Exhibition Mighty Queer/ Real Detroit 1st Biennial
2019: New Materials, Artist Talk, Cross Mackenzie Gallery, Washington, DC
2015: The Nickies as Warriors, Artist Talk, Cross Mackenzie Gallery, Washington, DC
Teaching and Workshops
2026: Cranbrook Art Museum, Ceramic Hand-building Workshop, Bloomfield hills
2022- 2025: Visiting Artist Temp Teacher, Cranbrook Upper Schools, Bloomfield Hills, MI
2023- 2025: Community Studio Critiques, 40 Howards Artist Guild, Pontiac, MI
2015: Corcoran College of Art + Design, Continuing Education Ceramic Instructor, Washington, DC
2014-2016: Ceramic Hand-building Instructor, All Fired Up Pottery Studio, Washington, DC
2013- 2015: Corcoran College of Art and Design, Teachers Assistant, Camp Creativity, Washington, DC
Biography and Public Features:
2026 Sophia Lada, “Anton Art Center Pride Art Show to begin June 6” Macomb Daily, May 18th 2026,
2025 Aris Cumara, “Artist Spot Light: Nickie Gunning,” The Trans Mag, December 2025.
2025 Cranbrook Academy of Art, “Nickie Gunning Featured in The Trans Mag”, December 12th, 2025
2024 Cranbrook Academy of Art, “Cranbrook Artists Featured in Detroit Biennial Exhibition for LQBTQ+ Art”, May 29th 2024,
2023 Chelsea Lake Roberts, “ ‘The LQBTQ+ Artist in Michigan’ delivers depth, breadth and diversity”, City Pulse, May 25th, 2023,
2023 Krystal Nurse, “Lansing Art Gallery's LGBTQ art exhibit gives space for 'radical self-acceptance' ”, Lansing State Journal, May 26th, 2023,
2021 Ben Cook, et al., Memory Matter (exhibition catalog , 2020), 4-6.
2021 Cranbrook Academy of Art, Graduate Degree Exhibition (Exhibition catalog, 2021), 124 - 127.
2018 Jess Oros, “Cross MacKenzie Gallery Presents Greg Minah and Nicole Gunning New Material”, East City Art, October 12th, 2018,
2018 Mark Jenkins, “In the Galleries: In two Exhibitions, 3 painters put aside their brushes”, The Washington Post November 9th, 2018,
2016 Mark Jenkins, “In the Galleries:Works on paper at Mateyka Gallery”, The Washington Post, January 15th, 2016,
2016 University of Maryland University College, 3rd Biennial Maryland Regional Juried Art Exhibition (Exhibition Catalog, 2016), 34.
2015 Julyssa Lopez, “Corcoran Unveils the NEXT Generation of Artists, GW Today, April 8th, 2015,
2015 Mark Jenkins, “In the Galleries: Anything but Simplicity in these Drawings”, The Washington Post, July 2nd, 2015
2015 John DiConsiglio, “Corcoran Completes Historic Inaugural Year”, GW Today, Fall/Winter 2015.
2015 Rebecca Cross, “Nicole Gunning - John Blee”, Cross Mackenzie Gallery, December 2015,
40 W. Howard St, Suite# 116a, Pontiac, MI, 48340
[email protected]
nickiegunning.com
Education:
2021 M.F.A. Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
2015 B.F.A. Corcoran School of Art + Design at The George Washington University, Washington, DC
2011 A.S. with distinction in Fine Arts at Suffolk County Community College, Selden, NY
Solo & Duo Exhibitions:
2027 TBD, Mouse Gallery, Detroit MI (Spring)
2026 Knock First (Duo), Boyer Campbell Building, Detroit, MI (ft Maddie Gordon)
2024 Fluid Identity: A Ceramic Exploration (Solo), Steeple Hall Gallery, Highland, MI
2018 New Materials (Duo), Cross Mackenzie Gallery, Washington, DC (ft Greg Minah)
2015 The Nickies (Solo), Cross Mackenzie Gallery, Washington, DC
Group Exhibitions:
2027 Mighty Queer/ Real Detroit 3rd Biannual, TBD, Detroit MI (Anticipating)
2026 Queertroit, Swords onto Plowshares, Detroit, MI
Human Form: An Exhibition of Sculpture, Buckham Gallery, Flint, MI
Pontiac Art Crawl, Saginaw St, Downtown Pontiac, MI
NCECA 60th Annual Cup Exhibition and Fundraiser, Huntington Place Convention Center, Detroit MI
Cranbrook Ceramics Alumni, Chrysler Building, Detroit MI
Ceramics x Fiber, Boyer Campbell Building, Detroit MI
Roy Presents, Roy G Biv Gallery, Columbus, OH
On the Grid Off the Grid, Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, NJ
2025 5th Annual Open Studio Exhibition, 40 Howards Artist Guild, Pontiac, MI
Thumb Area Artists Exhibition, Starkweather Arts Center Romeo MI
Wooden and Earthen, Bonfield Gallery, Traverse City, MI
Hysterical!, Detroit Repertory Theatre, Detroit, MI
2024 80th Annual Wabash Valley Exhibition, Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute, IN
Mighty Real Queer Detroit: I’ll Be Your Mirror, Gallerie Camile, Detroit MI
Queer 313, Swords into Plowshares, Detroit, MI
2024 Spring Salon, Detroit Contemporary, Detroit, MI
WHAT THE HECK?!, Tall Grass Gallery, Chicago, IL
2023 Juried Members Exhibition, Springfield Museum of Art, OH
Hot Days, Cool Art, PARC Art Gallery, Plymouth, MI
Kaleidoscope, Pontiac Creative Art Center, Pontiac, MI
The LBGTQ+ Artist in Michigan, Lansing Art Gallery, Lansing, MI
2023 Spring Salon, Detroit Contemporary, Detroit, MI
Currents, NCECA Cup Fundraiser & Exhibition, Cincinnati, OH
2022 Mighty Real Queer Detroit: Queer Imagination, Anton Art Center, MT Clemens, MI
Mighty Real Queer Detroit: Queer Imagination, Collected Detroit, Detroit, MI
2021 Cranbrook Art Museum, Graduate Degree Exhibition, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Studio, Cranbrook Academy of Art, MI, Online Exhibition
2020 All Art + No Play, Forum Gallery, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Studio, Cranbrook Academy of Art, MI, Online Exhibition
3605, NCECA, Richmond, VA [canceled due to Covid-19]
2019 Memory Matter, Forum Gallery Bloomfield Hills, MI
Object Block, Forum Gallery, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Best Of, Cross Mackenzie Gallery, Washington, DC
2018 Mid Atlantic New Painting 2018 Juried Show, Ridderhof Martin Gallery, Fredericksburg, VA
2017 Wild Animal Drawing/Painting Exhibition for City Wildlife, Anaba Project Space, Bethesda, MD
2016 3rd Biennial Maryland Regional Juried Exhibition, UMUC, MD
Life Sized, Gallery 1301, Baltimore, MD
2015 Art South Hampton, courtesy of Cross Mackenzie Gallery, South Hampton, NY
New Talent, Cross Mackenzie Gallery, Washington, DC
Next Collateral, Gallery 1301, Baltimore MD
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Next, Washington, DC
Then & Now; 27th Annual Ceramics Exhibition, White Halls Gallery, Washington, D.C.
2014 Pilot: Fine Art Thesis I, Gallery 31, Washington, DC
Heat Spectrum, Corcoran Gallery of Art and Design, White Halls Gallery, Washington, DC
This Is, Corcoran Gallery of Art and Design, White Walls Gallery, Washington, DC
2013 From Action to Meaning, Corcoran Gallery of Art and Design, White Walls Gallery, Washington, DC
Media/ Message, Corcoran Gallery of Art and Design, White Walls Gallery, Washington, DC
2012 Corcoran Gallery of Art, Performance Bridge, Three Corcoran Students, Washington, DC
(ft. Ashley VanGemeran, and Alix Malt)
2011 On Display, Maurice N. Flecker Memorial Art Gallery, Selden, NY
Artist Residencies:
2026: The Peanut Factory, Edenton, NC (forthcoming)
2025 Wildacres Retreat Residency, Little Switzerland, NC
2024 L.A. Studio+Art14 Residency, Patton, PA
2023 ArtFarm Nebraska, Marquette, NE
Awards, Grants, and Scholarships
2025 CERF+ Get Ready Grant Recipient
2024 Swope Art Museum, Frank Swaim Award of Honor, Juror Clifford Tresner
2020 Cranbrook Academy of Art, Merit Scholarship,
2018 Mid Atlantic Merit Award, Ridderhof Martin Gallery, Juror Kimberli Gant,
2015 Ceramics A.R.T. Award (Ambitious Risk Taker) for Outstanding Achievement in Ceramic Art
2015 Ethel Lorraine Bernstein Memorial Award, Corcoran School of the Arts and Design
2014 Ceramic Rookie of the Year Award, Corcoran College of Art and Design
2012 Andy Warhol Foundation Scholarship, Corcoran College of Art and Design
Artist Talks/ Visiting Artist:
2024: A Queer One, Artist Talk Gallerie Camile, Detroit, MI - Exhibition Mighty Queer/ Real Detroit 2nd Biennial
2024: Fluid Identity, Artist Talk, Steeple Hall Gallery, Highland, MI
2023: Visiting Artist- Portfolio Reviews, Cranbrook Teen Art Council, Kingswood Upper School Campus, Bloomfield Hills, MI
2022: Visiting Artist, Cranbrook Teen Art Council, Cranbrook Upper Schools, Bloomfield Hills, MI
2022: Artist Talk, Anton Art Center, Mt Clemens, MI - Exhibition Mighty Queer/ Real Detroit 1st Biennial
2019: New Materials, Artist Talk, Cross Mackenzie Gallery, Washington, DC
2015: The Nickies as Warriors, Artist Talk, Cross Mackenzie Gallery, Washington, DC
Teaching and Workshops
2026: Cranbrook Art Museum, Ceramic Hand-building Workshop, Bloomfield hills
2022- 2025: Visiting Artist Temp Teacher, Cranbrook Upper Schools, Bloomfield Hills, MI
2023- 2025: Community Studio Critiques, 40 Howards Artist Guild, Pontiac, MI
2015: Corcoran College of Art + Design, Continuing Education Ceramic Instructor, Washington, DC
2014-2016: Ceramic Hand-building Instructor, All Fired Up Pottery Studio, Washington, DC
2013- 2015: Corcoran College of Art and Design, Teachers Assistant, Camp Creativity, Washington, DC
Biography and Public Features:
2026 Sophia Lada, “Anton Art Center Pride Art Show to begin June 6” Macomb Daily, May 18th 2026,
2025 Aris Cumara, “Artist Spot Light: Nickie Gunning,” The Trans Mag, December 2025.
2025 Cranbrook Academy of Art, “Nickie Gunning Featured in The Trans Mag”, December 12th, 2025
2024 Cranbrook Academy of Art, “Cranbrook Artists Featured in Detroit Biennial Exhibition for LQBTQ+ Art”, May 29th 2024,
2023 Chelsea Lake Roberts, “ ‘The LQBTQ+ Artist in Michigan’ delivers depth, breadth and diversity”, City Pulse, May 25th, 2023,
2023 Krystal Nurse, “Lansing Art Gallery's LGBTQ art exhibit gives space for 'radical self-acceptance' ”, Lansing State Journal, May 26th, 2023,
2021 Ben Cook, et al., Memory Matter (exhibition catalog , 2020), 4-6.
2021 Cranbrook Academy of Art, Graduate Degree Exhibition (Exhibition catalog, 2021), 124 - 127.
2018 Jess Oros, “Cross MacKenzie Gallery Presents Greg Minah and Nicole Gunning New Material”, East City Art, October 12th, 2018,
2018 Mark Jenkins, “In the Galleries: In two Exhibitions, 3 painters put aside their brushes”, The Washington Post November 9th, 2018,
2016 Mark Jenkins, “In the Galleries:Works on paper at Mateyka Gallery”, The Washington Post, January 15th, 2016,
2016 University of Maryland University College, 3rd Biennial Maryland Regional Juried Art Exhibition (Exhibition Catalog, 2016), 34.
2015 Julyssa Lopez, “Corcoran Unveils the NEXT Generation of Artists, GW Today, April 8th, 2015,
2015 Mark Jenkins, “In the Galleries: Anything but Simplicity in these Drawings”, The Washington Post, July 2nd, 2015
2015 John DiConsiglio, “Corcoran Completes Historic Inaugural Year”, GW Today, Fall/Winter 2015.
2015 Rebecca Cross, “Nicole Gunning - John Blee”, Cross Mackenzie Gallery, December 2015,