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contact: mondragon.nathan@gmail.com

Education

Georgia State University, Ernest G. Welch School of Art and Design
Master of Fine Arts in Sculpture, 2019

School of Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Coursework in Studio Art, 2010-2014

Boston University, College of Communication
Bachelor of Science in Film & Television, 2007

Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions

2019
My hideous progeny, MFA Thesis Exhibition, Ernest G. Welch School of Art & Design Galleries at Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA

2015
NiGHTSHiFT, #CASTLEDRONE, Hyde Park, MA

2012
Instant Messaging, Anthony Greaney, Boston, MA

2010
red carpet meltdown, The Temple Gallery, Boston, MA

SELECTED Group Exhibitions

2019
Studio Apprentices: From the 2017/2018 Working Artist Project, Museum of Contemporary Art, GA, Atlanta, GA

New Genre Arts Festival Video Lab, Living Arts, Tulsa, OK

Discrit Presents: In Excess: An Examination of Love in Three Acts, Bakie’s Kansas City, The Bakery, Atlanta, GA

2018
Re:Program, Aqua Art Miami, Aqua Hotel & Suites, Room 212, Miami, FL

Mingling with the Remains, EYP/Gallery 100, Atlanta, GA

Under a Dismal Boston Skyline, Boston University, Stone Gallery, Boston, MA

MEOW, Abernathy Arts Center, Sandy Springs, GA

19th Annual Student Juried Exhibition, selected by Karen Tauches, Ernest G. Welch School of Art & Design Galleries at Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA

Tenable Folly, SOUP experimental, Tallahassee, FL

Trifecta, Trio Contemporary, Athens, GA

Swap, Lamar Dodd Glass Galleries, University of Georgia, Athens, GA

2017
#CASTLEDRONE CORRAL, HUBweek Boston, Boston City Hall, Boston, MA

Bodies on Display, The Mammal Gallery, Atlanta, GA

Trifecta 2.0, juried by Ridley Howard, Ernest G. Welch School of Art & Design Galleries at Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA

Digital Queerness, organized by Southern Fried Queer Pride, Eyedrum, Atlanta, GA

In Presence, The Distillery Gallery, South Boston, MA

Bearing Witness, Gallery 303, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA

Observance: As I See You, You See Me, Montserrat Galleries, Beverly, MA

2016
Stark Naked: Uncovering Bodies, Objects, and the Futility of Desire, Gallery Kayafas, Boston, MA

#MFANow Overnight: Launch Party, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

Post-Gay?, organized by Boston LQBTQIA Artist Alliance, The Distillery Gallery, South Boston, MA

2015
ARTcetera 2015, Biennial Contemporary Art Auction, The Park Plaza Castle, Boston, MA

NiGHTSHiFT 2: Coloring Coorain LIVE!, #CASTLEDRONE, Hyde Park, MA

YEAH, YOU MISSED IT!, Mills Gallery at the Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA

2014
re: (no subject), UMass Amherst Student Union Art Gallery, Amherst, MA

Placed: Inside/Out, Home of Arlette Kayafas, Boston, MA

2013
re: present me, Anthony Greaney, Boston, MA

SPEED, Studio Soto, Boston, MA

House Rabbet Society, Lincoln Arts Project, Waltham, MA

NEAR DEATH performance art experience, Cyclorama, Boston, MA

Salon Zürcher: Out of Town, Zürcher Studio, New York, NY

Performers Only 2013, The Bathaus Basement, Jamaica Plain, MA

2012
NOTHING AND NO THING, SEASON, Seattle, WA

Spirited Magazine $ Issue Live Magazine Installation, Fourth Wall Project, Boston, MA

Communion IV, Anthony Greaney, Boston, MA

2011
Holy Ghost: Monster Mash-Up, Montserrat Galleries, Beverly, MA

2010
Works in Progress, performance in collaboration with Maria Molteni and Ashley Capachione, Mobius, Boston, MA

2009
ICON O GRAPHIC, JP Art Market, Jamaica Plain, MA

2008
Axiom’s Carnival of the Arts, performance in collaboration with Maria Molteni, Axiom Gallery, Jamaica Plain, MA

Residencies, AWARDS, ARTIST TALKS, & ASSISTANTSHIPS

2019
Artist Talk for Discrit Presents: In Excess: An Examination of Love in Three Acts, Bakie’s Kansas City, The Bakery, Atlanta, GA

2018
The Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts & Sciences, Rabun Gap, GA
Recipient of the Georgia State University Fellowship

Artist Talk at The Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts & Sciences, Rabun Gap, GA

Ernest G. Welch School of Art & Design Supplemental Funding Grant 2018-2019
Recipient of Grant Award

2017
Working Artist Project Assistantship, Museum of Contemporary Art, Georgia, Atlanta, GA
Assistantship to 2017-2018 Working Artist Project Fellow Kirstin Mitchell

Ernest G. Welch School of Art & Design Supplemental Funding Grant 2017-2018
Recipient of Grant Award

2013
SPACE CASE: ZILLABOSTON.COM ONLINE RESIDENCY
Online residency in collaboration with BATHAUS

Press

2018
Re:Program, Georgia State University at Aqua Art Miami, Issue N8, December 2018
Exhibition catalogue essay by Dr. Fahamu Pecou

Flagpole Magazine, March 2018
“Five MFA Students to Keep an Eye On at Trio’s Trifecta” by Jessica Smith
http://flagpole.com/arts-culture/art-notes/2018/03/07/trifecta-at-trio-five-mfa-students-to-keep-an-eye-on

2017
Big, Red, and Shiny, March 2017
“As I See You, You See Me” by Caroline Bagenal

2010
Weekly Dig, July 28, 2010
“Weird Exorcism: A fullblown night of art, music and blood” by J. Patrick Brown

2009
Open Media Boston, August 8, 2009
“ICONOGRAPHIC: An Ode to the Obsolete” by Liz DeWolf
http://www.openmediaboston.org/content/iconographic-ode-obsolete

Weekly Dig, Volume 11, Issue 31, August 5, 2009
“Art Sans Technology” by Kari Jaick