Nicolas Lobo was born in Los Angeles; he lives and works in Miami. Over the past 8 years he has developed work based on the idea that the needs of the human body dictate the economic conditions we experience creating a feedback loop. Lobo’s material based approach is counterbalanced with strategies based in finance and personal wellness. Concerned with labor, leisure, and its discontents, Nicolas proposes a life we all live, in some way or another.

His work has been exhibited at institutional venues including the Mike Kelley mobile homestead at MoCAD; Detroit, Michigan, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum; Ridgefield CT, Pérez Art Museum Miami; American University Museum, Washington, D.C.; de la Cruz Collection, Miami; Museum of Contemporary Art, Santa Barbara, CA; The Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia; and Florida Atlantic University, Palm Beach, FL.

Image: Hydrogel beauty mask drawings (detail), 2019, by Nicolas Lobo. Courtesy of Nina Johnson.

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