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About
Nick Simko is an artist, educator, and activist. Simko's work uses photography to examine the interwoven cultural technologies of portraiture and representation, their complex histories, as well as their impact on how we perceive and author ourselves and our images. His work has been exhibited at museums, galleries, libraries, schools, and community centers throughout the United States including the Vizcaya Museum and Gardens in Miami, The Plaxall Gallery in New York City, and the Iridian Gallery in Richmond. In 2023, he was included on the Silver Eye Center for Photography’s Silver List, which features 24 photographers selected by nearly 100 curators, educators, publishers, and researchers working in photography in North America.
In 2019, Simko was the recipient of a ONE Archives Foundation LGBTQ Research Fellowship, which allowed him to study the photography collection at ONE. His work has been published in the University of Pittsburgh culture journal, Contemporaneity, and on Strange Fire Collective. Simko is the Chair of the Society for Photographic Education (SPE) Pride Caucus, which supports LGBTQ+ students and faculty nationwide. He holds an MFA in Photography from the University of New Mexico (UNM) and a BFA in Art History, Theory & Criticism from the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA). Simko is tenure track faculty in photography at Santa Rosa Junior College in California.