Nadir Souirgi responds to a condition he has termed “studio pessimism” and adopts the position of the trickster. Souirgi’s work considers notions of authenticity—both in terms of categorization and gesture—and where those contracts fail. He draws from visual histories such as branding, speculative fiction and abstraction to frame painting as a sincere prop.

Nadir Souirgi grew up in New York City and Miami and currently lives and works between New Haven, CT and New York City. His studies include Milton Avery Graduate School of Art, Bard College and an MFA from Yale School of Art (2024).  He is the recipient of the art school’s prestigious Carol Schlosberg Memorial Prize.  His work has been included in recent exhibitions in Miami, New York, Vienna, and Munich; and was first shown by the gallery in 2022.

EDUCATION

 

2020 – 2021
Milton Avery Graduate School of Art, Bard College

 

2022 – 2024
MFA candidate, Yale School of Art, Painting and Printmaking department

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

 

2021
Metonym, Bass Fisher Iinitiative, Miami

 

2019
Selective Adaptations, School, Vienna

 

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

 

 

2023
Atopia, David Castillo, Miami

 

2022
The Floral Impulse, David Castillo, Miami
Assembly of Repair, Klasse für Alle, University of Applied Arts, Vienna
Megafauna Land Dwellers, YoungArts Gallery, Miami

 

2021
Birding the Anthropocene, Aesthetic Relations Conference, University of Copenhagen, DE

 

2020
Birding the Anthropocene, Friendly Confrontations: Festival of Global Art and Criticisms of Institutions, Müchner Kammerspiele, Munich

 

 

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY

 

“What’s at Stake/What’s Missing”, Camera Austria International 2020 Issue 150/151

“Notes on Whiteness as a Blind” The Great Bird Blind Debate, Planting Fields Foundations 2020.

 

AWARDS & RESIDENCY PROGRAMS

 

2024
Carol Schlosberg Memorial Prize for Excellence in Painting, Yale University School of the Arts, New Haven, CT

 

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

 

Yale University Art Collection, New Haven, CT