NOLAN SMOCK
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“Nolan Smock is the best documentarian of Research Triangle Park since David Byrne— really wild body of work“ - Max Huffman, DOGTANGLE (Fantagraphics Books)
selected clients - Atlantic Records, Bandcamp, Downtown Greenville Partnership, IndyWeek, North Carolina Musuem of Art, Scaffold Exhibits, Warner Bros, VSCO
NOLAN SMOCK (b. 1984) is an artist living in Raleigh, NC. He is currently pursuing his Interdisciplinary Arts Bachelor’s degree at William Peace University.
Nolan made his first photos in the early 2000s with a one-megapixel digital camera while attending high school outside Dallas, TX. After a summer internship with Alec Soth in Minneapolis, MN in 2007, Nolan put down the camera and focused on music for a decade instead. In 2017, as a part of therapy, Nolan began making pictures again and has since incorporated them into a larger multimedia practice that looks at digital and physical landscapes with humor, curiosity, sensitivity, and criticism.
Nolan’s photos have been widely circulated online and on social media but he prints his work often and his photographs have hung in galleries, DIY spaces, and in the homes of collectors and patrons.
Nolan sometimes makes books and zines of his photo projects. He also collaborates with musicians and record labels on album art, usually by licensing existing photographs.
Nolan also makes music. His current project is Tracy Swamp. Previously: Real Dad, Google Dolls, Desert Secretary, The Charming Youngsters
Outside his personal work, Nolan facilitates arts events and workshops and has been consulted by individuals and organizations looking to incorporate the arts or work with them. This community work emphasizes inclusive, accessible, practical, and theraputic approaches. Art as process, not product.
(Projects featured on this website aren’t featured in their entirety)
SOLO(*) & GROUP EXHIBITIONS
06/2024 VIEWPOINTS (w/ Karen Miller Anderson), Arts Council of Wayne County, Goldsboro, NC
10/2021 A New Nothing (w/ Samantha Otto), online
08/2021 Fiiiirst (w/ François Faguet), online
04/2020 A Typology of Teenage Places, John Prince's Wall, Atlanta, GA
03/2020 X013: Stake Out, X-Files Photo Journal, online
10/2019 Halloween, Aviary Gallery, Jamaica Plain, MA
02/2019 Private/Public, Light Leaked Magazine, Atlanta, GA
04/2018 Durham Memorial Gardens, Mystic Alley, Raleigh, NC*
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