NOLAN SMOCK
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NOLAN SMOCK (b. 1984) lives in Raleigh, NC and is pursuing an Interdisciplinary Arts BA at William Peace University.
Nolan earned an Associate’s in Fine Art Photography in the back rooms of a commercial truck driving school in Smithfield, NC in 2007 then drove to Minneapolis, MN for the summer to intern with Alec Soth shortly before putting the camera away for a decade to focus on music.
In 2017, he started making photographs again spontaneously, then as part of therapy and now since integrated into a larger multimedia practice that includes both moving and still images that look at digital and physical landscapes with humor, curiosity, sensitivity, and criticism.
His photos have been widely shared online and through various social media plantforms but he still pulls his own prints for shows at galleries, DIY spaces, and art appreciators, produces books and zines of his various personal projects, and collaborates with musicians and record labels on album art, portraiture, and video.
Nolan is also a musician. His current project Tracy Swamp can be found here. Previously: Real Dad, Google Dolls, Desert Secretary
Besides his own work, Nolan has fascilitated arts events and workshops and has been consulted by organizations, businesses, and individuals looking to work with or in the arts, emphasizing inclusive, accessible, practical, and theraputic approaches.
“nolan smock is the best documentarian of research triangle park since david byrne— really wild body of work“ - Max Huffman
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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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