Nicholas Lowe

Chair, Historic Preservation (2003). Education - Higher Diploma in Fine Art (Media), University College London, Slade School of Art. (1989). BA, Combined Studies-Crafts, Crewe and Alsager College of High Education (1986); Exhibitions (Curator) - Goat Island Archive: We Discovered The Performance By Making It. Chicago Cultural Center (DCASE) 2019. Roger Brown: Calif. USA, Hyde Park Art Center 2010; Exhibitions - EXPO-Chicago, Kohler Arts/Industry. 2018. Ohklahomo – Lucky Star Edition, Chicago IL, 2018. SideCar - A Better Tomorrowland. 2018. La Conchita Miniatures, Museum of Jurassic Technology. 2012. ‘Luna De Suenos’ Xwingprojects/Creeping Toad, Department Of Cultural Affairs, Chicago. 2008. ‘A Manifest Imposture’, Links Hall, Chicago, 2004. ‘Coq-à-l’âne’, University of Bath, UK. 2000.’The Sitting Room’ Hochschule Der Künste. Berlin, Germany. 1997. ‘Ecstatic Antibodies’. Arts Council Touring, UK. 1990; Residencies - Kohler Arts/Industry, Kohler WI. 2018. Artists’ Agency, HIV and AIDS Photography Residency, 1992. Pepiniere Pour Jeunes Artists 1990; Publications - The School Of The Art Institute of Chicago. Arcadia Press, 2017. Roger Brown Calif. U.S.A. SAIC, 2010. Living Proof: Views of a World Living With HIV and AIDS. Artists’ Agency, 1992; Articles - Remote viewing – panorama narrative, landscape experience and heritage. Panorama, IPC Journal, Volume 4. 2021. 'Discovering the Exhibition by Curating it Performing the Goat Island Archive.' Theatre Volume 50, Number 2, 2020. 'Tracing What Remains: Looking for James Wilkins’s The Immense Moving Mirror of the Overland Trail.' Panorama, IPC Journal, Volume 3. 2020. ‘Goat Island', American Theatre Ensembles Volume 1 Post-1970. Bloomsbury, 2020. 'Who needs a prosecution to make a point: The forgotten British Culture wars.' Social Identities, Vol.13, No.2, March 2007.

Nicholas Lowe is an interdisciplinary artist, teacher, project manager, and curator. He is known for his photography, video, and installation works from the 1980’s and 90’s that focus on experiences of AIDS and HIV. Lowe has also worked in prisons and with farming communities in the UK. He's worked with people in these specific social situations to facilitate opportunities where the details and information from personal archives and from first voice accounts are offered as a commentary upon prevailing social conditions.

Sometimes called a social practitioner and identified as a contextual artist, Lowe has facilitated exhibitions, publications, and archival collecting throughout the 90’s into the early 2000’s and up to the present time. Alongside his tenure as Associate Professor in Historic Preservation he is curator of the Goat Island Archive and advisor to the Roger Brown Study Collection, a special collection of the School of The Art Institute of Chicago.