CV
Solo Exhibitions
2020
Threads, Court Tree Collective, Brooklyn
2010
Judy Saslow Gallery, Chicago
2006
George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles
2004
George Billis Gallery, New York City
2001
Paintings, George Billis Gallery, New York City
Two-person Exhibitions
2022
Terrain with Linda Lauro-Lazin, FGD Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2017
Salawn, with Elaine Komorowski, Brooklyn, NY
2001
Alchemy, with Elaine Komorowski, George Billis Gallery, New York City
1992
Modernist Forms/Post-Modern Colors, with Girts Purins, U. P. Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
Group Exhibitions
2026
Summer Love, Georgetown Arts and Cultural Center, Georgetown, CT
2025
In the Light, 490 Atlantic Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2024
Group Show (March), George Billis Gallery, New York City
Group Show (November), George Billis Gallery, New York City
Friends of Friends, Court Tree Collective, Brooklyn, NY
2023
Gravity Adjacent, BAU Gallery, Beacon, NY
Markings, FGD Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Small Works III, FGD Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2022
Ethereal Communication, The Painting Center, New York City
The Painting Center Benefit 2022-2023, virtual via Artsy
Small Works II, FGD Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
By the Seaside, FGD Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2021
Small Works, FGD Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Actual Paper, 2021, virtual exhibition, Court Tree Collective
Postcards from the Edge 2021, virtual exhibition, Visual AIDS
7 Artist 2, FGD Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2020
Ensemble: Together Again, virtual exhibition, The Painting Center
Postcards from the Edge 2020, Bartolami, New York City
2019
The Great Paper Show, Court Tree Collective, Brooklyn, NY
Stonewall 50, Pride at Trinity, Trinity on the Green, New Haven, CT
Postcards from the Edge 2019, Bartolami, New York City
2018
Sixteenth Annual 5 by 7 Show, Byrdcliffe’s Kleinert/James Center for the Arts, Woodstock, NY
Small Works, Brooklyn Art Cluster Gallery
#brooklyn, Gallery Four Eighty, Brooklyn, NY
Shapes, Gallery Four Eighty, Brooklyn, NY
7 Artists, Gallery Four Eighty, Brooklyn, NY
Postcards from the Edge 2018, Gallery 524, New York City
2017
Wish You Were Here 16, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Art from the Heart, Sean Christopher Gallery, Columbus, OH
Fifteenth Annual 5 by 7 Show, Byrdcliffe’s Kleinert/James Center for the Arts, Woodstock, NY
2016
Fourteenth Annual 5 by 7 Show, Byrdcliffe’s Kleinert/James Center for the Arts, Woodstock, NY
Summer Group Show, George Billis Gallery, New York City
2015
Thirteenth Annual 5 by 7 Show, Byrdcliffe’s Kleinert/James Center for the Arts, Woodstock, NY
2012
Public Art Fund Auction, New York City
2007
Four Non-Objective Artists, Brooklyn Borough Hall Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2006
Peripheral Vision: Art by Pratt Staff, Steuben Gallery, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
2004
Fresh Assortment, George Billis Gallery, New York City
2003
Round, George Billis Gallery, New York City
Rental Sales Gallery, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Group Show, George Billis Gallery, New York City
2000
Behind The Walls, Lawton Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Greenbay, WI
1999
Additives…On Paper, George Billis Gallery, New York City
1998
Color in Motion, George Billis Gallery, New York City
Invitational, Prince Street Gallery, New York City
Art Exchange, George Billis Gallery at Art Exchange Exhibition, New York City
1997
Surface, George Billis Gallery, New York City
Grecian Treasures, International Images, Pittsburgh, PA
Small Works, Cooley Gallery, Old Lyme, CT
Group Show, HBO Gallery, Westchester, NY
1995
Assemble #2, 450 Broadway Gallery, New York City
Small Works Show, 450 Broadway Gallery, New York City
Beach Reveries, President’s Gallery, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
Art on the Block, Raintree’s, Brooklyn, NY
1991
34th Chautauqua National Exhibition of American Art, Chautauqua Art Association Galleries, Chautauqua, NY; Juror, Christopher Riopella, Assoc. Curator, Philadelphia Museum of Art
Three Rivers Arts Festival, Pittsburgh, PA
1990
33rd Chautauqua National Exhibition of American Art, Chautauqua Art Association Galleries, Chautauqua, NY; Juror, Jeremy Strick, Assoc. Curator of 20th Century Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Three Rivers Arts Festival, Pittsburgh, PA
1989
CLPH Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Honors/Awards
2019
Visiting Critic, International Studio & Curatorial Program, Brooklyn, New York
2002
Guest Juror, Reveal/Revision, postpicasso.com
1997
Guest Juror, Brooklyn Promenade Art Exhibition
Collections
Alliance Capital, New York; Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York
Publications/Blogs
Dye, Sean, The Mixed Media Source Book: Techniques for Successfully Combining Painting and Drawing Mediums.
New York, Watson-Guptill, 2004, print;
Studio Visit, Vol. 6. Boston, The Open Studio Press, 2009, print;
Art In Brooklyn (artinbrooklyn.com), Jan 9, 2010, web;
Studio Visit, Vol. 37. Boston, The Open Studio Press, 2017, print.
“September 10 artists to Watch,” Almost Real Things, web and print.
Studio Visit, Vol. 43. Boston, The Open Studio Press, 2019, print.
A View from The Easel, Hyperallergic, April 2019, web.
Artdose Weekly Magazine, Artist Spotlight, October 2021, web.
Education
1989
MFA, Painting, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
1985
BA, Studio Arts, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Contact me at nicholas.battis@gmail.com and follow me on Instagram. View selected works on Artsy.