NOLAN SMOCK
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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 started taking photos first as a part of therapy 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 shared online and on social media but he prints his own photos when he can and his work been shown in galleries, DIY spaces, and hung 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.
“nolan smock is the best documentarian of research triangle park since david byrne— really wild body of work“ - Max Huffman , cartoonist
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FEATURES · A New Nothing, Broad Magazine, C41 Magazine, Fiiiirst, Nowhere Diary, Paradise Magazine, RUNAWAY, VSCO // LICENSING · Atlantic Records, Raund Haus, Warner Bros, MTV // COMMISSIONS/CLIENTS · Bandcamp, IndyWeek, Scaffold Exhibits
(Projects featured on this website aren’t featured in their entirety)
SOLO(*) & GROUP EXHIBITIONS
06/2024 VIEWPOINTS, Arts Council of Wayne County, Goldsboro, NC*
04/2020 A Typology of Teenage Places, John Prince's Wall, Atlanta, GA
03/2020 X013: Stake Out, X-Files Photo Journal, Undisclosed Location
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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