NIKKO MUELLER
Education
Master of Fine Art 2003
Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA
Bachelor of Fine Art Painting Major, Art History Minor 2000
Tyler School of Art, Temple University Philadelphia, PA
Exhibitions
Solo
Loose Ends 2022
Best Practice, San Diego, CA
Nikko Mueller: I’m Ok, You’re OK 2019
Atheneum Arts Library, La Jolla, CA
The Forgetting Factor 2014
Southwestern College Gallery, Chula Vista, CA
Werther Effect 2012
Sam Lee Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Poverty Porn 2009
Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
The Strongmen of the Future 2006
Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Two-Person
Surface Tension 2020
Kruglak Gallery, Oceanside, CA
Passages 2016
R.B. Stevenson Gallery, La Jolla, CA
Group
INTIKA 2025
Visions Museum of Textile Art
San Diego, CA
Espacios & Lines 2024
San Diego International Airport annual exhibition series
San Diego International Airport, San Diego, CA
Eurythmy: The Dance of Colors 2022-23
Oceanside Museum of Art/OMA West
Oceanside, CA
SD Practice 2021
Bread and Salt
San Diego, CA
Far Out: Movement Through Form and Color 2018-19
Metro-LA Union Station, Los Angeles, CA
Karl and Beverly Benjamin Fellows Exhibition 2017
Peegy Phelps and East Galleries, Claremont Graduate University
Claremont, CA
Project Series 51: Incendiary Traces 2017
As part of Hillary Mushkin’s Incendiary Traces project
*catalog available
Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA
Polaroid Black 2017
Big Pictures LA, Los Angeles, CA
Summer Group Show 2015
Quint Gallery, La Jolla, CA
Hello my name Is_____, and I am from _____. 2015
A Ship in the Woods, Del Mar, CA
Object, Object!! 2014
(Curated by Good Good Things)
Helmuth Projects, San Diego, CA
Object, Object!! 2013
(Curated by Good Good Things) *with catalogue
Helmuth Projects, San Diego, CA
Decomposition 2013
(Curated by Constance Mallinson) *with catalogue
Fellows of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Neighborhood 2010
Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, Indianapolis, IN
Back Yard 2010
Sam Lee gallery, Pacific Design Center, West Hollywood, CA
Terra Incognita 2009
Boehm Gallery, Palomar College, San Marcos, CA
Orphans and Kitties Go to the Circus 2009
(part of Out of Bounds: Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions 10k)
Circus of Books, Los Angeles, CA
Mighty Daggers do Small Paintings Throw 2009
Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Loveable like Orphaned Kittens and Bastard Children 2009
Green Gallery West, Milwaukee, WI
Heavy Corner 2008
Creative Artist Agency, Century City, CA
Space as a Space
Bonelli Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2008
Hovering over the universe…
(Curated by Kristin Calabrese)
Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2007
Sub-Urbane 2006
Rio Hondo College Art Gallery, Whittier, CA
Architectural Elements 2006
Dust Gallery, Las Vegas, NV
From America 2006
Museum of Modern Fine Art, Minsk, Balarus
The Great Outdoors 2005
Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Suburbicarian2004
Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
CAA Invitational Exhibition 2003
Creative Artists Agency, Beverly Hills, CA
Titled(M.F.A. exhibition) 2003
Peggy Phelps Gallery, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA
Sprawl 2003
Sweeney Gallery, University of California Riverside, Riverside CA
Curation
Borrowed Landscape 2015
Boehm Gallery, Palomar College
Reviews & Publications
Espacios & Lines catalogue
San Diego International Airport
2024
100 Works, 100 Books, Selected Works and Artists’ Books from Exhibitions and the Collection
Athenaeum Music and Arts Library
2024
Nikko Mueller with HereIn
November 1 2022 HereIn Journal
By Jordan Karney Chaim
Out of Instability, artist Nikko Mueller strives to find stability
San Diego Union Tribune 10/17/19
By Martina Scimitscheck
Meet Nikko Mueller
SD Voyager Magazine 10/24/2018, Local Stories
Project Series 51: Incendiary Traces (Exhibition Catalogue)
Pomona College Museum of Art 01/17
Decomposition (Exhibition Catalogue) 5/13
By Constance Mallinson
Neighborhood. ArtPulse Winter 2010/11
By Kaytie Johnson
Povery Porn ArtSlant (online) Picklist 5/17/09
By Michael Shaw
Collective Fantasies Take Flight Los Angeles Times 08/31/07, p. E28
By David Pagel
Pairing ovals and aerial views. Los Angeles Times 12/15/06, p. E35
By Leah Ollman
Sinister Visions of the suburbs. Los Angeles Times 12/19/03, p. E31
By David Pagel
Amid the Asphalt, Suburbs Find Green. The Press Enterprise 2/10/2003, p. F08
By Deborah L. Knaff