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Nick Cave (born February 4, 1959) is an American sculptor, dancer, performance artist, and professor. He is best known for his Soundsuit series: wearable assemblage fabric sculptures that are bright, whimsical, and other-worldly, often made with found objects.
While Nick Cave is best known for his Soundsuits, they are just some of the many multi-faceted visual artworks, performances, and participatory projects he creates that poignantly address issues of race, gender, and identity in America. Curator Naomi Beckwith asserts that his art "is both a sobering recognition of all that has stayed the same ...
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- February 4, 1959
- Fulton, Missouri
Nick Cave (born February 4, 1959, Jefferson City, Missouri, U.S.) is an American artist best known for his wearable mixed-media constructions known as Soundsuits, which act simultaneously as fashion, sculpture, and noisemaking performance art.
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Oct 15, 2019 · Nick Cave Is the Most Joyful, and Critical, Artist in America. By Megan O’GradyOct. 15, 2019. Share full article. Using materials that range from twigs to crystals to...
Jan 17, 2017 · Nick Cave created his first Soundsuit after the Rodney King beating in 1992. Cave was sitting in a park, feeling vulnerable and cast aside, when he saw a discarded twig on the ground. Later he fabricated a symbolic suit of armor, using hundreds of collected twigs.
May 12, 2022 · Nick Cave is being celebrated in his first retrospective, “Forothermore,” open May 14th to October 2nd at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.
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Nick Cave (b. 1959, Fulton, MO; lives and works in Chicago, IL) is an artist, educator and foremost a messenger, working between the visual and performing arts through a wide range of mediums including sculpture, installation, video, sound and performance.
