Born in Austria, 1980
Lives and works in Cambridge, Massachusetts


EDUCATION

2006-2013
University of Applied Arts Vienna, Institute of Fine Arts and Media Art, Vienna, Austria
MFA in Painting. Thesis and Degree Show: MEASURES: Anthropological Family Studies in the Banat Region of Romania

Jan. – May, 2012
University of the Arts London, Department of Fine Arts: Print and Time-Based Media, London, UK
Erasmus Exchange Program

1994-1999
Ortweinschule of Art and Design, Graz, Austria
A-Levels in Art History and Metal Design



SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2019 “FIG.2 – BRISHTY ALAM, NICOLE PRUTSCH” (Duo Solo Exhibition), Center for Contemporary Arts Celje, Likovni Salon Gallery, Slovenia

2018 “BEYOND THE MEASURING PRINCIPLE”, Neue Galerie Graz, Studio, Joanneumsviertel, Graz, Austria

2017 “LA MÉTHODE”, Start Gallery MUSA Museum, Vienna, Austria

2016 “STENDHAL’S SILENCE”, Library of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria

2015 “ENTSUMPFUNG”, Perinetkeller, Vienna, Austria

2014 “IN SUSPENSION”, Bodensee Art Fund, Wasserburg, Germany

2014 “FREMDKOERPER”, Galerie Marenzi, Leibnitz, Austria

2013 “PUSH – NICOLE PRUTSCH, JAKOB SCHIECHE” (Duo Solo Exhibition), Vaska Emanouilova Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria

2013 “MASSNAHME”, Museum of Natural History Vienna, Austria

2009 “BANG ON TARGET”, Kunstraum Praterstraße, Vienna, Austria



GROUP EXHIBITIONS, FILM SCREENINGS (s), AND CURATORIAL PROJECTS

2023
AgX Open Studios 2023, Waltham, MA, USA
SENSAI FilmFest, Quarter Finalist (Personal Cuts/Hands), Tokyo, Japan (s)
“NOTES AFTER LONG SILENCE. ON AUSTRIAN AND AMERICAN STRUCTURAL FILM.”, Revolutions Per Minute Festival Boston and Millennium Film Workshop New York, USA (curatorial project)

2022
“Resonance. Selections from the AgX Film Collective.”, Nonamecinema, Santa Fe, NM, USA (s)

2021
“Is it Me? Am I the Drama?” Salzburger Kunstverein Annual Exhibition, Salzburg, Austria
“FLICKFAIR Film Festival”, Los Angeles, California, USA (s)
“Hypnotic Suggestions: Recent Works by the AgX Film Collective. Co-presented by Non-Event”, Norman B. Leventhal Park, Boston, MA, USA (s)

2020
“Recent Works from the AgX Film Collective”, Waltham Virtual Open Studios, MA, USA (s)

2019
“Visible/Invisible” – AgX films at Fort Point Open Studios, Boston, MA, USA (s)
“Boston Short Film Festival”, Somerville Theatre, Somerville, MA, USA (s)
“Visible/Invisible. AgX Film Collective”, Zumzeig Cinema, Barcelona, Spain; L’Abdominable, Paris, France (s)
“11th Annual Student Art Show of Harvard University”, Richard A. and Susan F. Smith Campus Center, Cambridge, MA, USA
“Shaking the Frame: Experimental Film from AgX Film Collective”, Clark University, Worcester, MA, USA (s)
“Revolutions Per Minute Festival”, UMass Boston, Boston, MA, USA (s)

2018
“Non-Event Year-End Concert and Fundraiser”, The Yard, John Hancock Tower, Boston, MA, USA
“AgX at AFW”, Arena Project Space, Melbourne, Australia (s)
“Función Especial: AgX Boston Film Collective”, Kino Palais, Buenos Aires, Argentina (s)
“Ein trüber, zerkratzter Spiegel- 20 Jahre Galerie Marenzi Leibnitz”, Quartier Marenzi, Leibnitz, Austria
“10th Harvard Student Art Show”, The Crossings Gallery of Harvard University, Allston, MA, USA
“Science and Ethnicity. Austrian Anthropological Research in Banat in the 1930ies”,
Bucharest Municipality Museum, Bucharest, Romania
“SOLO EXHIBITION”, a project by Ivan Moudov, Sofia City Art Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria

2017
“Past Present Future”, ARCC.art Open Space, Vienna, Austria
“Bewährungsprobe#14″, Depot, Vienna, Austria

2016
“Förderpreis des Landes Steiermark für zeitgenössische bildende Kunst”, Neue Galerie Graz, Austria
“Perform Painthink”, Art for Art Theaterwerkstätten, Arsenal Objekt 19, Vienna, Austria
“Fotografija – Photo Graz Selection 014″, Austrian Cultural Forum Zagreb: Galerija Oranžerija, Vukovar, Croatia / Galerija Waldinger, Osijek, Croatia/ Muzej – Museo Lapidarium- Novigrad, Croatia

2015
“+45 +55 +95 +”, Austrian Cultural Forum Budapest, Hungary
“Fotografija – Photo Graz Selection 014″, Austrian Cultural Forum Zagreb, Croatia / Centar za kulturu Čakovec, Croatia
“SMALL”, Kunstraum SUPER, Vienna, Austria
“Die Stadt die es nicht gibt”, City Leaks Urban Art Biennale 2015, Carlswerk Gelände Köln, Germany
“An der Straße / Na cesti”- 60 Jahre südsteirische Weinstraße, Outdoor Galerie südst. Weinstraße, Austria
“With and Without” Photo miniature Biennale, Mansarda Gallery, Faculty of Arts and Design Timisoara, Romania
“Double-Faced Imagery-a Fugue”, wellwellwell, Vienna, Austria

2014
“(Un)expected Form”, Locomot, Hochhaus Herrengasse, Vienna, Austria
“Photo Graz 2014″, Papierfabrik, Graz, Austria
“Parallel Vienna 2014″, Art fair, Vienna, Austria
“Georg Trakl-Preis für bildende Kunst”, Galerie im Traklhaus, Salzburg, Austria
“Dance With Us”, Projektraum Viktor Bucher, Vienna, Austria
“Visual Ends: The Edge of Perception”, F L A T Space Chicago, Illinois, USA

2013
“Discovering Borderlands”, selected venues in Moscow, Russia
“Downtown TULSA”, selected venues in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA

2012
“Fragments of Unspoken Thoughts”, Jakopič Gallery, Ljubljana
“onFIRE”, Old Fire Station Vauxhall, London, UK
“Trompe-l’oeil / interpassive.”, Vyner Street Gallery, London, UK
“PANOPTICON”, The Nunnery Gallery, Bow Arts, London, UK
“FAMILIENALBUM”, Städtische Galerie Nordhorn, Germany
“Group Show”, 0GMS Gallery Drawer, Sofia, Bulgaria

2011
“Defining Space”, In der Kubatur des Kabinetts: der Kunstsalon im Fluc, Vienna
“Things that Talk” Vienna Art Week, Museum of Natural History Vienna
“embassyextravaganza”, Mo.e. Vienna
“KÖRPER / KONTROLLE / EXZESS”, Künstlerhaus Passagegalerie
“The Human Market”, Performance, Ragnarhof, Vienna
“Road to nowhere- True stories”, made of contemporary, Grundsteingasse, Vienna
“Kollektiv Akt III”, Mo.e, Vienna
“Die Zukunft der Arbeit”, IZD Tower, Vienna

2010
“Die Zukunft der Arbeit”, Arbeiterkammer Vienna
“Black Peppermint”, In der Kubatur des Kabinetts: der Kunstsalon im Fluc, Vienna
“Klassenlos”, Akademie Galerie Nürnberg

2009
“The Essence”, Universität für angewandte Kunst, Vienna

2008
„Floating“, In der Kubatur des Kabinetts: der Kunstsalon im Fluc, Vienna
„The Essence“, Museum für angewandte Kunst (MAK), Vienna
“Bilder im Birkenwald wirken bald”, Kunstraum Praterstraße, Vienna

2007
“The Essence”, Museum für angewandte Kunst (MAK), Vienna
“Cross Borders”, Masc Foundation, Vienna



ARTIST TALKS AND PRESENTATIONS

May 4 and 6, 2023 “Notes After Long Silence. On Austrian and American Structural Film”, Introduction and Q&A, Revolutions Per Minute Festival, UMass Boston, University Hall, and Millennium Film Workshop New York

Oct. 23, 2021 Introduction of “X-TRACTS” (1972) by Leslie Thornton at the Harvard Film Archive Student Cinematheque

Nov. 6, 2020 “Research/Creation, a Virtual Mini-Symposium”, Artist Talk, MFA Program at NSCAD University, Nova Scotia, Canada

March 21, 2019 “Shaking the Frame: Experimental Film from AgX Film Collective”, Q&A, Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA

Sept. 14, 2019 The Harvard Advocate, Summer 2019 Issue Release, Artist Talk, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Feb. 2, 2019 Revolutions Per Minute Festival, Special Program I, AgX Film Collective, Q&A, UMass Boston

May 2, 2017 “Bewährungsprobe#14″, Artist Talk, Depot–Space for Art and Discussion, Vienna, Austria

June 22, 2016 “Body Images: Working with Scientific Methodology. Nicole Prutsch in conversation with Andreas Spiegl”, Artist Talk, Salon IG, IG Bildende Kunst, Vienna, Austria

Sept.16, 2012 “Reverse Engineering”, Artist Talk, Paraflows–Platform for Digital Art and Culture, Symposium, Museums Quarter Vienna, Austria

Oct. 17, 2011 “Art and Science”, Artist Talk, 1st Science Bar Camp Vienna, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute, Vienna, Austria



AWARDS AND GRANTS

2023 Project Grant, Austrian Cultural Forum New York
2023 Project Grant, Arts and Culture Division of the Federal Chancellery of Austria (BMKOES)
2022 Project Grant, Arts and Culture Division of the Federal Chancellery of Austria (BMKOES)
2022 Project Purchase, Arts and Culture Division of the Province of Styria, Austria
2019 Project Purchase, Wien Museum, Vienna, Austria
2018 Project Grant, Arts and Culture Division of the Federal Chancellery of Austria (BMKOES)
2018 Project Grant, Arts and Culture Division of the Province of Styria, Austria
2017 Project purchase, MUSA Museum Start Gallery Artothek, Vienna, Austria
2017 Project Grant, Arts and Culture Division of the Federal Chancellery of Austria (BMKOES)
2016 Promotion Award of the Arts and Culture Division of the Province of Styria, Austria
2016 Project purchase, Arts and Culture Division of the Federal Chancellery of Austria (BMKOES)
2012 Erasmus Scholarship, University of the Arts London, Wimbledon College of Art
2010 Fred Adelmüller Scholarship of the University of Applied Arts, Austria
2010 “The Future of Work”, Sponsorship of Arbeiterkammer (official representation of employees), Austria



RESIDENCIES, FELLOWSHIPS, AND AFFILIATIONS

2021-2022 Member of the Harvard Film Archive Student Cinematheque, Cambridge, MA, USA
2018-Present Member of the AgX Film Collective in Boston, MA, USA
2018-Present Postdoctoral fellowship, DFCI Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
2015 Artist in Residence, Tapiola Guest Studio, Helsinki, Finland.
2014 Artist in Residence, Bodensee Art Fund, Lake Constance, Germany.
2012 Erasmus Exchange Program, University of the Arts London, Wimbledon College of Arts, London, UK.
1986-1987 German International School, Mashhad, Iran.



PUBLICATIONS

2022 Is it Me? Am I the Drama? Exhibition Catalogue of the Annual Show of the Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg, Austria
2020 nicole prutsch. beyond the measuring principle. DISTANZ Verlag Berlin
2019 The Harvard Advocate, Summer 2019 issue (printed version)
2018 Ein trüber, zerkratzter Spiegel- 20 Jahre Galerie Marenzi Leibnitz, Exhibition Catalogue, Quartier Marenzi, Leibnitz, Austria
2016 Promotion Prize of the Province of Styria for Contemporary Fine Arts Catalogue, Museum Joanneum
2014 The Art of Reverse Engineering. Open, Dissect, Rebuild. Edited by Günther Friesinger and Jana Herwig. Transcript-Verlag