Trace Nichols

Trace Nichols is a contemporary photographer, printmaker, and educator with a passion for expressing the inferred within her subjects. Her art often seeks to cultivate conversations between her viewers, the medium used, the production processes, and the subjects expressed. Trace’s artistic focus merges conceptual inquires and a contemporary use of alternative processes, with the arts of photography and printmaking. With this integration she strives to draw inspiration and technique from the past, to help form new conversations around our current visual and intellectual experience of the photograph and of the print.

Rarely does her work cease at a single capture. Trace often takes the approach that building layers of context through working in series form or by developing more complex individual images, that an enriched experience can transpire, leaving a deeper impart.

Trace has been working in the visual field for over 20 years. Her works have been exhibited in such institutions as the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers Bankside Gallery in London, Aspen Art Museum, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Brevard Art Museum, and The Red Brick Arts Center among others, as well as being housed in private collections throughout the United S...

2009 Academy of Art University, San Francisco, CA
Master of Fine Arts: Photography - magna cum laude
1993 Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
Bachelor of Science: Studio Art - emphasis in
Graphic Design and Printmaking