Brittany Nelson (born 1984 in Great Falls, Montana, USA, lives and works
in Richmond, Virginia) works with 19th century
photographic
chemistry techniques to address themes of
feminist
a
science fiction
and
queer abstraction. She received her MFA in photography from the
Cranbrook Academy of Art, and her Bachelor of Arts from Montana State
University. She is the recipient of a 2015 Creative Capital Grant in
Visual Arts and a Theo Westenberger Foundation Grant for advancing women
in the arts. She has previously exhibited at The Museum of Contemporary
Art Detroit (Detroit, MI), The Brooklyn Academy of Music (New York, NY),
The Cranbrook Art Museum (Bloomfield Hills, MI), The Newcomb Art Museum
(New Orleans, LA), Patron Gallery (Chicago, IL), Morgan Lehman (New York,
NY), Harnett Museum of Art (Richmond, VA), The International Print Center
(New York NY), among many others. Nelson was a 2017 artist in residence at
the Headlands Center for the Arts (San Francisco, CA) and the recipient of
the Fish/Pearce Award for process-based work from the Print Center
(Philadelphia, PA). Her work has been featured in publications such as
Art
In America,
Frieze,
The New Yorker,
Collector
Daily, and
Aesthetica.
