Nestor Armando Gil

Consortium for Faculty Diversity Fellow

Phone (207) 798-4348
Title Consortium for Faculty Diversity Fellow & Lecturer
Department Art
Work Location 309 Visual Arts Center
E-Mail ngil@bowdoin.edu
Nestor Armando Gil: Bowdoin College: Visual Art

Education

M.F.A. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2009
B.A. New College of Florida, Sarasota FL, 2000

Links

Nestor Gil's work in the Faculty Gallery »

Exhibitions/Performances/Interventions

2009

New Currents, Ackland Museum of Art, Chapel Hill, NC
Imaging Desire, Hite Art Institute, University of Loiusville, KY
TheA.I.R. Invitational, The Showroom HUB-BUB, Spartanburg, SC

2008

Teaching Fellows, UNC, Chapel Hill, NC
Partisan the Sea, Churchwell Lofts, Jacksonville, FL Curator: Joey Marchy
Vernon Twinburger, Public Interventions, Chapel Hill, NC; Greensboro, NC; Jacksonville, FL; and Washington DC
Heroes, Lump Gallery, Raleigh, NC Curator: elin o’Hara slavick
Bait, John and June Alcott Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC

2007

Footprint (solo), Opaq Gallery, Jacksonville, FL
6 at ArtLab, Art Lab, Chapel Hill, NC

2006

Sensory Flux, Kent Gallery, FCCJ, Jacksonville, FL Curator: Mark Creegan
Public InterventionB, Tangerine Festival #2, Jacksonville, FL
Personal Journal (solo), Moon Colony Razorblade, Jacksonville, FL
New Work (solo), Soiree!, Ponte Vedra Beach, FL

2005

Public InterventionA, Tangerine Festival, Jacksonville, FL
Roses vs Plots, Spiller Vincenty Gallery, Jacksonville, FL

2004

Firestory (solo), Spiller-Vincenty Gallery, Jacksonville, FL
Narrator of the film Life and Death on the River Ganges, by Marko+Carrie Suvajdzic, Winner of the Belgrade International Documentary Film Festival, Belgrade, Serbia

2003

2 Birds With One Seed Parts 1+2 (solo), Pickett & Watts Gallery, Jacksonville, FL, and Backstreet, St. Augustine, FL
Dejalo (solo), Installed Intervention, Anonymous Locale
Hanging on Every Word, Installed Intervention, Anonymous Locale

2001

Many in One, The Loft, Jacksonville FL
7LonelyNinjas, Karpeles Museum, Jacksonville, FL
Big Art Show, Czigan&Rummel Gallery, Jacksonville, FL

2000

Freedom at Its Worst Angle (solo), Four Winds, Sarasota, FL
Volar Papalotes, Public Intervention, Sarasota, FL
Group Exhibit, Brooklyn Contemporary Art Center, Jacksonville, FL

1999

Vestiges, New College, Sarasota, FL Curator: Robert Rustermier

1997

3 Performances, Lee Harvey Gallery, Jacksonville, FL

1991 – 1998

Founding member of Blank Slate/Theatre of Hate performance art collective, performances and interventions across NE Florida

Bibliography

HubBub AIR Invitational (photo in review) greenvilleonline.com, 2009
A Home for Heroes at Lump, Independent Weekly, Raleigh, NC, 2008
Who Is Vernon Twinburger? by Eric Martin, WCHL, North Carolina, 2008
Ear Conditioning, Ink19 Magazine, 2006
Off The Page by Shelton Hull, Folio Weekly Magazine, Florida, 2004
Feature Article by Tanya Perez Brennan, The Florida Times Union, 2004
Art Box by Madeline Peck, Folio Weekly Magazine, Florida, 2001
Poetry In Motion, The Florida Times-Union, 1997

Publications/Conferences

2008

Visualizing Human Rights – An International Anti-Conference Presented by The FED-EX Center for Global Initiatives, NC

2007

Selected poems, Section8Magazine, Jacksonville, FL
Guest Editor’s Page, Folio Weekly Magazine, Florida

2001 – 2007

Notes from Buck Mulligan, Section8Magazine, Jacksonville, FL

2000

Fat Boy, Onthebus Literary Journal, Los Angeles, CA
Selected poems for New Collage Magazine 30th Anniversary Issue

1999

La Musica, New Collage Magazine, Sarasota, Florida

1995

Selected poems for Peeling Potatoes, a collection of work by four Florida writers

Grants/Awards

2009

Aegis Award for Artistic Excellence, National Biennial MFA exhibition (Imaging Desire), Hite Art Institute, Louisville KY

2008

Graduate Teaching Fellowship University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

2004

Spiller-Vincenty Gallery Performance Artist Grant