Nathan Pearce

Solo Exhibitions

2018

• Midwest Dirt, Cedarhurst Center for the Arts, Mount Vernon, Illinois
• Midwest Dirt, 6Pence, Carbondale, Illinois

2017

• Collected Photobooks, Fairfield Public Library, Fairfield Illinois 

2016 

• The Farm, Rangefinder Gallery, Chicago Illinois
• Midwest Dirt, Pg Gallery, Evansville Indiana
• Midwest Dirt, Pizza B's, Cisne Illinois 
• Welcome to Hortonville, Standard Projects, Hortonville Wisconsin

2015

• Midwest Dirt, PhotoNOLA, Hey! Cafe, New Orleans, Louisiana 
• Some Hortonville Photobooks, Standard Projects, Hortonville Wisconsin 

2011

• Day of the Dead, Jemini,  Fairfield Illinois

2007

• Polaroid Work, The Space, Hamden Connecticut 
  

Pop-Up Shows, Events, Performances & Other Hard To Classify Projects

2018

• Hold Your Breath III, with Matthew David Crowther, Beesonstock Music & Arts Festival, Cisne Illinois (Two Person Exhibition)
• Midwest Dirt, Frontier College, Fairfield, Illinois 

2017

• Hold Your Breath, with Matthew David Crowther, Beesonstock Music & Arts Festival, Cisne Illinois (Two Person Exhibition)
• Hold Your Breath II, with Rachael Banks, Beesonstock Music & Arts Festival, Cisne Illinois (Two Person Exhibition)
• While Supplies Last, Beesonstock Music & Arts Festival, Cisne Illinois 

2016

• When We Meet, with Rachael Banks, mostly on the internet
• The Misinformation Dept., White Buffalo Music And Arts Festival, Amboy Illinois
  
• Nothing Ever Happens (Scavenger Hunt), White Buffalo Music And Arts Festival, Amboy Illinois 
• Some Tank Batteries, The Bearded Lady, Mount Vernon Illinois

Selected Group Exhibitions

2018

• New Midwest Photography, James Watrous Gallery, Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters, Madison, Wisconsin, Curated by Andy Adams/ Flakphoto
• Photobook Exhibition, Venice Arts, Month of Photography Los Angeles,  Venice, California 
•  Record/Off Record, Northern Kentucky University, Fotofocus Biennial, Covington, Kentucky
• 30 from 10, Pushdot, Portland, Oregon
  
• J Book Show, Photobookshow, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork Photo Festival, Cork, Ireland
  
• Z.Archive, UMass Dartmouth Claire T. Carney Library Archives & Special Collections, Dartmouth, Massachusetts
• The Floating Library, Lake Phalen, St. Paul, Minnesota
  
• Pretty Scary, Frontier College, Fairfield, Illinois
• Creativity Redefined,Cedarhurst Center For The Arts, Mt. Vernon, Illinois
  
• Visions, Crowder College Cassville, Cassville Missouri
• 12th Annual Anything Goes...Everything Shows, Flood Gallery Fine Art Center, Black Mountain, NC
  
• Works On Paper, 211F, Normal, Illinois
• Familiar/Familial, Online exhibition, Photo-Emphasis
  
• Spring 2018, Online exhibition, Streit House Space
• 2018 Annual Artist Showcase, Kincaids, Fairfield, Illinois

2017

• Thread Count, Der Greif, Co-Op, Unseen Amsterdam, Amsterdam 
• Cedarhurst Biennial, Cedarhurst Center For The Arts, Mount Vernon, Illinois. Curated by Barry Blinderman 
• By The Books: Juried Photobook Exhibition, Vermont Center For Photography, Brattleboro, Vermont, Juror Henry Horenstein
• AWAKE Reading Room, 10x10 Photobooks, PGH Photo Fair, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 
• Photobooks, Athens Photo Festival, Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece
• Context 2017, Filter Space, Chicago, Illinois.  Juried by Natasha Egan
• Zines Of The World, The Truman Brewery, London
• Bound, Holland Project Gallery, Reno, Nevada
• Big Picture Colorado, Denver, Colorado
• A Print, Nock, Gothenburg, Sweden 
• Beautiful Zines, OCAD Zine Library, Toronto, Canada
• In-Sight Photography Project 2017 Juried Exhibition, In-Sight Photography Project,  Brattleboro Vermont
  
• Ironic Methods with Sincere Motivations, Kiosk Gallery, Kansas City Missouri 
• The Zine Museum, Massey University,  Wellington New Zealand
• The Zine Museum, Featherston Booktown, Featherston School, Featherston New Zealand
• 2017 Annual Artist Showcase, Kincaids, Fairfield Illinois

2016

• Making Muses, Colorado Photographic Arts Center, Denver Colorado
• Hit The Road, The Photocopy Club, Fotofestiwal, ART_INKUBATOR Festival Centre, Lodz Poland
• Xerox and Destroy 2, The Photocopy Club, Unveil'd Photography Festival, Exeter, Devon, UK
• Photobookshow Kyiv, Ya Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
• Annual Shrode Juried Photography Exhibition, Cedarhurst Center for the Arts, Mount Vernon Illinois 
• Making Muses, PhotoSummer, CFA Downtown Studio, Albequrque New Mexico
• Postage Required, Vermont Center for Photography, Brattleboro Vermont
• INFOCUS Juried Exhibition of Self-Published Photobooks, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona
  
• Creativity Redefined, Cedarhurst Center For The Arts, Mount Vernon Illinois
• Zine World, The Photocopy Club, Fotofestiwal, ART_INKUBATOR Festival Centre, Lodz Poland
• INFOCUS Juried Exhibition of Self-Published Photobooks, Center for Creative Photography, Tuscon Arizona
  
• The Impossible Image, The Photocopy Club, Liège, Belgium
• Fishing For iconography 2, A Smith Gallery, Johnston City Texas
  
• Outlook, Online exhibition, Flash Powder Projects
• Life Still, Online exhibition, Flash Powder Projects 
  
• All Visual Triangle 6, Hillsborough, North Carolina 
  
• Arts Annual, Frontier College, Fairfield Illinois
• The Zine Museum, Tauranga Zine Fest, Tauranga Art Gallery, Tauranga New Zealand 
• This is it, Online exhibition, Streit House Space

2015

• Viewpoint: Landscape and Architecture, Black Box Gallery, Portland Oregon
• Annual Shrode Juried Photography Exhibition, Cedarhurst Center for the Arts, Mount Vernon Illinois 
  
• Photobook 2014 (Midwest Dirt photobook) Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester Massachusetts. Jurors Paula Tognarelli and Karen Davis
• Photobooks: Athens Photo Festival, Benaki Museum, Athens Greece
• Zine World, (Midwest Dirt - Bootleg Edition and All Night Long vol.5) Doomed Gallery, London, UK
• Permanent Gravy Stretch, Gravy Studio, Philadelphia Pennsylvania 
• Miscellanea, Kansas City Art Institute (East Gallery), Kansas City, Missouri 
• Here and Away, Art Garage, Young Space, Green Bay Wisconsin
• Fishing For Iconography, A Smith Gallery, Johnston City Texas
  
• Creativity Redefined, Cedarhurst Center For The Arts, Mount Vernon Illinois
• A Feeling of Connection to Place, Tent Gallery, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
  
• Summer 2015, Online Exhibition, Streit House Space, 
  
• Big Picture Colorado, Denver Colorado
• Re:Generation, Young Space, Appleton Wisconsin 
• Arts Annual, Frontier College, Fairfield Illinois
• Photo Paste, Baltimore Maryland 
  
• Lets Get Xeroxing, The Photocopy Club, Book And Job Gallery, San Francisco, California.
  
• Light Reading, (Midwest Dirt photobook) as part of The Natural Collection (The Photobook Club) Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne, Australia
• Zinester Art, Lucky Cat Gallery, Milwaukee Wisconsin  
  
• 2015 Annual Artist Showcase, Kincaids, Fairfield, Illinois

2014

• Photobook 2014, (Midwest Dirt photobook) Davis Orton Gallery, Hudson, New York. Jurors Paula Tognarelli and Karen Davis
  
• Annual Shrode Juried Photography Exhibition, Cedarhurst Center For The Arts, Mount Vernon, Illinois (Awarded First Prize)
• Filter Photo Festival Photobook Exhibition, (Midwest Dirt photobook) Madison Public Library, Maddison, Wisconsin,  Juror Gregory Harris
• Filter Photo Festival Photobook Exhibition, (Midwest Dirt photobook) Harrington College of Design, Chicago, Illinois. Juror Gregory Harris
• All Visual Triangle 5, Hillsborough, North Carolina
• H Book Show (Photobookshow) (Midwest Dirt photobook) Doomed Gallery, London
• Petty Thieves 5 projection, Hell & Gone Gallery, Brooklyn, New York 
  
• Portrait: A Picture Show, Black Box Gallery, Portland Oregon. Juror Holly Andres
• INFOCUS Juried Exhibition of Self-Published Photobooks, (Midwest Dirt photobook) Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Az. Jurors: Mary Virginia Swanson, Darius Himes, Larissa Leclair, Abigail Nersesian, Jennifer Barnella, Joshua Chuang and Becky Senf
• Zines of the Zone, Stray Books Festival, (Midwest Dirt photobook) Red Gallery, London
• Thesaurus, Oranbeg Press, Dossier Outpost, New York, New York
• Oranbeg Net 08, Dossier Outpost, New York, New York
  
• Do not delete, Online exhibition, Curated by Joe Fletcher Orr for Trip Magazine
  

2013

• Big Picture Colorado, Denver Colorado
  
• Annual Shrode Juried Photography Exhibition, Cedarhurst Center for the Arts, Mount Vernon Illinois (Awarded honorable mention)
• Petty Thieves Three projection, Petworth Citizen & Reading Room, Washington D.C. 
  

2010

• Day of the Dead projection show, Centro Fotografico Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico 

• Still Feel Gone. With co-author Tim Carpenter. Published by Deadbeat Club, 2014.
• Midwest Dirt. Published by Same Coin Press, 2014.
  
• Midwest Dirt. Bootleg Edition. Published by Same Coin Press, 2015.
• Midwest Dirt. Halfmoon Edition. Published by Halfmoon Projects, 2017.
• Nothing Ever Happens 1. Published by Halfmoon Projects, 2016.
• Nothing Ever Happens 2. Published by Halfmoon Projects, 2016.
• Some Tank Batteries. Published by Deadbeat Club, 2018.
• Tank Batteries. Published by The Unknown Books, 2014.
• Some Tank Batteries. Published by Same Coin Press, 2017.
• Ouch! Published by Same Coin Press, 2018.
• Learning How To Fall. With co-author Tyler Dunning . Published by Same Coin Press, 2018.
• Nineteen Tomatoes. Published by Same Coin Press, 2015.
• Various Churches, Declining Structures. Published by Same Coin Press, 2015.
• Nineteen Tomatoes. Published by Same Coin Press, 2015.
• Various Midwestern Homes. Published by Same Coin Press, 2016.
• I Took A Train Trip With My Grandma. Published by Same Coin Press, 2016.
• Come Thru It's Lit. Self-published with Rachael Banks, 2017.
  
• The Beer I Had In Branson. Published by Same Coin Press, 2016.
• I Can See For Miles. Published by Same Coin Press, 2017.
• Rejected Zine Names. Published by Same Coin Press, 2016.
• The Beef Book. Published by Same Coin Press, 20
  

• Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University, The Indie Photobook Library Collection
• Museum of Contemporary Photography -Special Books Collection
  
• School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection
  
• Amon Carter Museum of American Art Library
  
• The Snite Museum of Art
  
• RISD Fleet Library Special Collections
• Michigan State University Special Collections
• Joseph Curtis Sloane Art Library at University of North Carolina Chapel Hill 
• LaBudde Special Collections, University of Missouri Kansas City,
• Hanna House Museum 
• University of Chicago Library Special Collections 
• London College of Communication Zine Collection
• Colorado College Zine Collection
• UMass Dartmouth Claire T. Carney Library
  
• The Publishing Center at Salt Lake Community College
  
• Franklin Furnace Artist Book Collection
• Hampshire College Zine Collection
• Greenfield Community College- Nahman-Watson Library
• Salt Lake City Public Library Alternative Press Collection
• The Natural Collection - The Photobook Club
• Booklet Library, Tokyo, Japan
• The Library Project, Ireland 

• Artists Residency, Public Collectors Joong Boo Residency Winter 2017, Chicago Illinois
• Artists Residency, LATITUDE, Fall 2016, Chicago Illinois 
• Midwest Dirt photobook shortlisted for Athens Photo Festival 2015 Photobook Show
• By The Books: Juried Photobook Exhibition, Vermont Center For Photography, Awarded Directors Honorable Mention for Midwest Dirt (Akina Edition)
• Artists Residency, Standard Projects, Summer 2015, Hortonville Wisconsin
  
• 2014 Annual Shrode Juried Photography Competition. Awarded First Prize
  
• 2013 Annual Shrode Juried Photography Competition. Awarded Honorable Mention

• Same Coin Reading Room, Beesonstock Music and Arts Festival, Cisne Il, Summer 2018
• The Zine Shelf, LATITUDE, Chicago Il, Fall 2016, co-curated with Matthew David Crowther
• Portrait, LATITUDE, Chicago Il, Fall 2016, Juror
  
• Same Coin Show Vol. IIII Beesonstock Music and Arts Festival, Cisne Il, Fall 2016
  
• Same Coin Show Vol. III, Beesonstock Music and Arts Festival, Cisne Il, Summer 2016
• Same Coin Show Vol. I, Beesonstock Music and Arts Festival, Cisne Il, Summer 2015
  
• Same Coin Show Vol. II, GTFO Gallery, Murphysboro Il, Fall 2015
  

• Huffington Post. Wray, Tara. “Doin' Work, Flash Interviews With Contemporary Photographers: Nathan Pearce.” The Huffington Post, TheHuffingtonPost.com, 7 Dec. 2017, www.huffingtonpost.com/tara-wray/doin-work-flash-interview_9_b_10821712.html.
• The British Journal of Photography. Rojee, Ameena. “10 More Young, Emerging & Established Photographers Choosing Film.” British Journal of Photography, 26 June 2017, www.bjp-online.com/2017/06/intrepidfilmphotographyaward_2/.
• PDN. “Reflecting a Contemporary Midwest America.” PDN Photo of the Day, 4 Sept. 2018, potd.pdnonline.com/2018/09/53896/.
• Juxtapoz. “‘Midwest Dirt’ by Nathan Pearce.” Juxtapoz Magazine - Home, 13 Mar. 2017, www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/midwest-dirt-by-nathan-pearce/.
• Burn Magazine. “Nathan Pearce – Midwest Dirt.” Burn Magazine, 18 June 2016, www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2012/12/nathan-pearce-midwest-dirt/.
• Self Publish Be Happy. “Midwest Dirt By Nathan Pearce.” Self Publish, Be Happy, 2014, selfpublishbehappy.com/2014/08/book-du-jour-midwest-dirt-by-nathan-pearce/.
• Aint-Bad. “Nathan Pearce.” Edited by Rachel Jump, AINT-BAD, 25 Oct. 2015, www.aint-bad.com/article/2015/10/26/nathan-pearce/.
• Booooooom!. Adams, Andy. “10 Midwest Photographers You Should Follow.” BOOOOOOOM!, 2018, www.booooooom.com/2018/08/29/10-midwest-photographers-you-should-follow/.
• Fraction Magazine. “Issue 90.” Fraction Magazine, Sept. 2016, www.fractionmagazine.com/issue-90/.
• Strant Mag. Kelly, Shaun H. “Midwest Dirt by Nathan Pearce |.” Strant Magazine, www.strantmag.com/midwest-dirt-by-nathan-pearce-2/.
• Design Observer. Foster, John. “Nathan Pearce.” Design Observer, 8 Jan. 2016, designobserver.com/feature/nathan-pearce/39160/.
• Oranbeg Press. “NET 2.8.” Edited by Tim Carpenter , Oranbeg Press, oranbegpress.com/NET-2-8.

• Wisconsin People & Ideas. Adams, Andy. “New Midwest Photography.” Wisconsin People & Ideas , 2018. 
  
• Crusade For Your Audience (appeared as contributor). Yoffy Schwartz, Jennifer, editor. Crusade For Your Audience. Crusade Press, 2017.
  
• The Meal-Based Artist Residency Program (appeared as contributor). Fischer, Marc. The Meal-Based Artist Residency Program . Public Collectors , 2018.
• BKN Magazine. Pearce , Nathan. “Midwest Dirt .” BKN, 2015.
• Trip Mag. Pearce, Nathan. “Doubles.” Trip Mag, 2014.