Nick Mahshie 786.518.4589 Nickmahshie.com

Education 2015-2017 The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Masters of Design: Fashion, Body, & Garment, Chicago, IL 2003-2007 Rhode Island School of Design, BFA Painting, Providence, RI

Experience 2019- Foundations Program Professor, International University, , FL Co-professor for Praxis: Foundation Studies Program at FIU’s College of Architecture & the Arts

2018- Print Shop Resident, Oolite Arts, Miami Beach, FL Manage Community Print Studio and Plan + Teach monthly print-based workshops and classes

2018-2019 Youth Programs Coordinator, Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami Design and Implement Internship and other youth programs, including the Young Artist Initiative Program for high school students

2015-2017 Teaching Assistant, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago Department of Contemporary Practices & Early College Program Summer Institute Woodshop Teaching Assistant Oversaw student projects and maintained shop equipment Fashion Department Technician Industrial sewing machine maintenance Fibers & Material Studies Monitor, SAIC, Chicago Maintained Print & Fibers studios, chemical mixing and shop oversight

2013- 2015 Teaching Artist, Young Audiences of Louisiana, New Orleans Artist in Residence Teacher at Martin Behrman Charter School Lead Workshops and Summer programs at New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA)

2010- 2012 Teaching Artist, Children’s Museum of the Arts, New York, NY Teaching Artist- Set Designer, Le Petit Bain, Paris, FR Invited for 6 weeks to create Stage/Costume Design & Conduct workshops with children for the opening of floating venue on the Seine River.

2008- 2012 Contracted Designer, Flamboyant Paradise, Buenos Aires, AR Created original costumes and set design for music video productions English Teacher, Private & Institutional, Buenos Aires, AR

Exhibitions + Residencies Swampspace Group Show, Rocking Chair Sessions 76-100, 2019, Miami, FL FATvillage IS Projects Group Show, Pushing the Pull, 2018, Ft. Lauderdale, FL Art and Culture Center/Hollywood Group Show, Plush & Habitat, 2018, Hollywood, FL SOHO Beach House Commissioned Installation, Juice Stand, 2018, Miami Beach, FL The Fountainhead Studios Residency, 2017-8, Miami, FL Arts Warehouse Group Show, ACTIVE, 2018, Delray Beach, FL RAW Pop Up Group Show, Old US Post Office, Miami Art Week 2017, Miami, FL

Fashion Outlets of Chicago Group Show, Cultivated Mirage, 2017, Chicago, IL Block 37 SAIC Design Show, Ecdysis, 2017, Chicago, IL SUGS Galleries SAIC Black Box: An Afrofuturist Opus Group Show, Chicago, IL Sage Gallery SAIC Window Installation, 2017, Chicago, IL Cienfuegos Art Gallery Performance piece + Exhibited jewelry 2013, Art District, Miami, FL Come to Consti, 2-month Artist Residency + Exhibition March-April 2012, Buenos Aires, AR Children’s Museum of the Arts (CMA), Exhibiting and Teaching Artist, 2011-2012 Winter, New York City, NY Le Petit Bain, Stage & Costume Design/Performance, Grand Opening 2011 Summer, Paris, FR Et-Ou, Fashion-ART, Group Show 2011 Summer, Zurich, CH Fundación OSDE, Group Art Show, Barro de Paraiso: Arte Contemporaneo y Religiosidad Popular, Buenos Aires, AR, 2011 Appetite Gallery, Exhibition at ArteBA with live Performance “Tranqui ATM”, 2011 Tec-n-Arte Seminar, Invited Artist at Espacio de la Fundación Telefonica, Buenos Aires, AR, 2010 Kartonero Tropical, Produced & Created Fashion Show, Niceto Club, Buenos Aires, AR, 2010 Miami vs. Buenos Aires, Coordinator, Designer & Artist for Fashion Show, Niceto Club, Buenos Aires, AR, 2009 Residencia Corazón, Bife Americano, Artist residency program + solo exhibition, 2008, La Plata, AR

Accolades ICA Art & Research Center, Participant in curated seminars at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, 2017 RumChata Fellowship, Awarded for excellence at the Graduate level in the Department of Fashion, Body, & Garment, SAIC, 2017 Make Work Venture Fund Awardee, Financial support granted to launch a shared screen-printing studio in Miami, SAIC, 2017 Fashion Outlets of Chicago Juried Competition & Cash Prize, Chicago, IL, 2017 New Artists Society Scholarship, Merit-based scholarship for 1-full year of academic study at the graduate level, SAIC, 2015-2017 European Honors Program, Rhode Island School of Design, Rome, Italy, 2015-16 Rhode Island School of Design, Full tuition merit-based scholarship, 2003- 2007

Bibliography Nicole Martinez, Tranqui Prints Studio to offer Workshop, Resources for Local Artists and Makers, Miami New Times, 12 March 2018, Miami, FL John Thomason, Arts Warhouse an Edgy Addition to Delray’s Art Scene, Boca Mag, 8 March 2018, Delray Beach, FL Spare Times: For Children, Tranqui Yanqui at the Children’s Museum of the Arts, 6 January 2012, New York Times, NY Laurel Graeber, Where Art is Child’s Play, New York Times, 20 October 2011, New York, NY Lucille Beziers, Créateur en Carton, I Heart Magazine, January 2011, Paris, FR Elizabeth Glesson, Corazones de Trash, Time Out Buenos Aires, Summer/Autumn 2010, Buenos Aires, AR Kate Stanworth, American Dreams: Keepin’ it Tranqui, The Argentina Independent Edition 49, February 2009, Buenos Aires, AR Sol Amaya, Tranqui Yanqui: Un artista norteamericano suelto en las calles porteños, La Nación, May 2009, Buenos Aires, AR Nicolas Longo, Labor Intensive Cardboard, Vice Magazine Argentina, 9 September 2009, Buenos Aires, AR

Ariane Karlotta Jacht, Places Products People: Buenos Aires, TUSH Magazine Edition 4, November 2008, Hamburg, DE Sorrel Moseley-Williams, Performance Art on Buenos Aires’ Streets: The ‘Tranqui Yanqui’ show, The Buenos Aires Herald, 13 September 2008, Buenos Aires, AR