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viewer in this relationship is potentially discomfiting
at the same time that it is potentially irresistible.
Nixon continues to work in the domestic and
public realm. Throughout the early years of the
twenty-first century, Nixon has produced images of
delicate intimacy and bald sensuality as part of his
Couplesseries, in which lovers of all ages and sexes
are catalogued in their most tender and passionate
moments. In another collaboration with Bebe, the
Nixon’s produced a series titledRoom 306: A Year in
Public School, which examines their son Sam’s sixth-
grade class as a microcosm for the ongoing, often
intractable issues facing the American public school
system. His more recentBoston Public Gardenseries
interestingly combines elements of both his land-
scape work and his photographs of people, focusing
on the interaction between couples in public parks;
human relationships suspended, hinged, and nested
among the architecture of the public terrain.

JENNIFERSchneider

Seealso:Adams, Robert; Baltz, Lewis; Documen-
tary Photography; Gohlke, Frank; Shore, Stephen;
Social Representation

Biography

Born in Detroit, Michigan in 1947. Received B.A. in Eng-
lish from the University of Michigan in 1969; received
M.F.A. in Photography from University of New Mexico
in 1974. VISTA volunteer in St. Louis 1969–1970; high
school teacher in Minneapolis, MN 1970–1971. Began
photographing Bebe Brown in 1970; married Bebe
(Brown) Nixon in 1971; began work onThe Brown
Sistersseries in 1975. Assumed teaching position in
1974 at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston,
MA. Selected for 1975 group exhibition,New Topo-
graphics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscapeat
the International Museum of Photography, Rochester,
New York. Begins association with Light Gallery, New
York, 1980. Massachusetts Council of the Arts, ‘‘New
Works’’ Grant, 1982; National Endowment for the Arts
Photography Fellowship, 1976, 1980, 1987; John Simon
Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, 1977,
1986; Friends of Photography Peer Award, 1988; George
Gund Foundation Fellowship, 2000.

Individual Exhibitions

1976 Nicholas Nixon; Museum of Modern Art, New York,
New York
1977 Vision Gallery; Boston, Massachusetts
1982 Institute of Contemporary Art; Boston, Massachusetts
Rochester Institute of Technology; Rochester, New York
1983 Friends of Photography; Carmel, California
Madison Art Center; Madison, Wisconsin
1984 California Museum of Photography; Riverside, Cali-
fornia
1984 Corcoran Gallery of Art; Washington, D.C.

1985 Ackland Art Museum; University of North Carolina,

Chapel Hill, North Carolina

1985 Photographs by Nicholas Nixon: Portraits 1975–1985;

Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

1986 Cleveland Museum of Art; Cleveland, Ohio

1988 Museum of Fine Arts; Boston, Massachusetts

1988 Nicholas Nixon: Pictures of People; Museum of Mod-

ern Art, New York, New York

1989 Detroit Institute of Arts; Detroit, Michigan

1989 Milwaukee Art Institute; Milwaukee, Wisconsin

1989 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; San Fran-

cisco, California

1989 Victoria and Albert Museum; London, England

1990 Saint Louis Museum of Art; St. Louis, Missouri

1991 Museum of Photographic Arts; San Diego, California

1994 Sprengel Museum; Hannover, Germany

1995 Nicholas Nixon; Muse ́e de l’art Moderne, Paris, France

2001 Nicholas Nixon: Lovers; Fraenkel Gallery, San Fran-

cisco, California

Group Exhibitions

1975 New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Land-

scape; International Museum of Photography, George

Eastman House, Rochester, New York

1977 Court House; Museum of Modern Art, New York,

New York

Nicholas Nixon and Stephen Shore; Worcester Art

Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts

New York: The City and its People; Yale University

School of Art, New Haven, Connecticut

1978 Mirrors and Windows: American Photography since

1960 ; Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York

14 New England Photographers;Museum of Fine

Arts, Boston, Massachusetts

Nicholas Nixon/William Eggleston; The Cronin Gal-

lery, Houston, Texas

1979 American Images; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washing-

ton, D.C.

1980 Photography and Architecture; Fraenkel Gallery, San

Francisco, California

American Photography of the ‘70s; Art Institute of

Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

1981 American Children; Museum of Modern Art, New

York, New York

1982 The Contact Print; Friends of Photography, Carmel,

California

20th Century Photographs from the Museum of Mod-

ern Art; The Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan

1984 Les Ages et les Villes: Frederick Cantor—Nicholas

Nixon; The American Center, Paris, France

1986 Variants; Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York

1987 Twelve Photographers Look at U.S.; Philadelphia Mu-

seum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

1990 Photography Until Now; Museum of Modern Art, New

York, New York

1991 Eadweard Muybridge and Contemporary American Pho-

tography; Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover,

Massachusetts, and traveling

1992 Fables of the Visible World; Massachusetts College of

Art, Boston, Massachusetts

Pleasures and Terrors of Domestic Comfort; Museum

of Modern Art, New York, New York

1995 Visions of Childhood; Bard College, Annandale-on-Hud-

son, New York

NIXON, NICHOLAS