Education
Master of Fine Art 2003
Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA
Bachelor of Fine Art Painting Major, Art History Minor 2000
Tyler School of Art, Temple University Philadelphia, PA
International Study Program 1998
Temple University, Rome, Italy
Exhibitions
Solo
I’m Ok, You’re OK 2019
The Atheneum Arts Library, La Jolla, CA
The Forgetting Factor 2014
Southwestern College Gallery, Chula Vista, CA
Werther Effect 2012
Sam Lee Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Poverty Porn 2009
Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
The Strongmen of the Future 2006
Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Two Person
Surface Tension 2020
Kruglak Gallery, MiraCosta College, Oceanside, CA
Passages 2016
R.B Stevenson Gallery, La Jolla, CA
Group
Holding Space 2019
Big Pictures, Los Angeles, CA
Dreamhouse vs. Punkhouse 2019
Serious Topics, Inglewood, CA
Far Out: Movement Through Form and Color 2018-19
Metro-LA Union Station, Los Angeles, CA
Karl and Beverly Benjamin Fellows Exhibition 2017
Peegy Phelps and East Galleries, Claremont Graduate University
Claremont, CA
Polaroid Black 2017
Big Pictures, Los Angeles, CA
Project Series 51: Incendiary Traces 2017
(as part Hillary Mushkin's project)* with catalog
Pomona College Museum of Art, Pomona, CA
Hello my name Is_____, and I am from _____. 2015
A Ship in the Woods, Del Mar, CA
Summer Show 2015
Quint Gallery, La Jolla, CA
Object, Object 2!! 2014
(Curated by Good Good Things)
Helmuth Projects, San Diego, CA
Object Object !! 2013
(Curated by Good Good Things) *with catalog
Helmuth Projects, San Diego, CA
Decomposition 2013
(Curated by Constance Mallinson) *with catalog
Fellows of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Neighborhood 2010
Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, Indianapolis, IN
Back Yard
Sam Lee gallery, Pacific Design Center 2010
Terra Incognita 2009
Boehm Gallery, Palomar College, San Marcos, CA
Orphans and Kitties Go to the Circus 2009
(part of Out of Bounds: Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions 10k)
Circus of Books, Los Angeles, CA
Mighty Daggers do Small Paintings Throw 2009
Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Loveable like Orphaned Kittens and Bastard Children 2009
Green Gallery West, Milwaukee, WI
Heavy Corner 2008
Creative Artist Agency, Century City, CA
Space as a Space
Bonelli Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2008
Hovering over the universe…
(Curated by Kristin Calabrese)
Honor Fraser Gallery, Venice Beach, CA 2007
Sub-Urbane 2006
Rio Hondo College Art Gallery, Whittier, CA
Architectural Elements 2006
Dust Gallery, Las Vegas, NV
From America 2006
Museum of Modern Fine Art, Minsk, Balarus
The Great Outdoors 2005
Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Suburbicarian 2004
Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
CAA Invitational Exhibition 2003
Creative Artists Agency, Beverly Hills, CA
Titled (M.F.A. exhibition) 2003
Peggy Phelps Gallery, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA
Sprawl 2003
Sweeney Gallery, University of California Riverside, Riverside CA
Curation
Borrowed Landscape 2015
Joshua Aster, Kristin Calabrese, Victoria Fu, Eben Goff, Keaton Macon,
Hillary Mushkin, Scott Polach, Eva Struble, Devon Tsuno
Palomar College, San Marcos, CA
Reviews & Publications
Out of instability, artist Nikko Mueller strives for stability 10/17/19
The San Diego Union-Tribune, by Martina Schimitscheck
Meet Nikko Mueller 10/24/2018
SD Voyager Magazine, Local Stories
Project Series 51: Incendiary Traces (Exhibition Catalogue) 01/17
Pomona College Museum of Art
Object Object!! (Exhibition Catalog) 11/13
By Good Good Things
Decomposition (Exhibition Catalog) 5/13
By Constance Mallinson
Povery Porn ArtSlant (online) Picklist 5/17/09
By Michael Shaw
Collective Fantasies Take Flight Los Angeles Times 08/31/07, p. E28
By David Pagel
Pairing ovals and aerial views. Los Angeles Times 12/15/06, p. E35
By Leah Ollman
Sinister Visions of the suburbs. Los Angeles Times 12/19/03, p. E31
By David Pagel
Amid the Asphalt, Suburbs Find Green. The Press Enterprise 2/10/2003, p. F08
By Deborah L. Knaff