NANCY TOBIN | SPECIAL PROJECTS | PARKING LOT

Old Cooter Energy, 2024 | Vintage Bedcover, Polar Fleece, Felt, Stuffing, Embroidery, Glow-in-the-dark Chain, Inflatable Dunnage Bags | 144 x 108 x 24”

Nancy Tobin is an American artist. Her work is currently being shown at The CAMP Gallery, North Miami in North Miami Beach. Numerous key galleries and museums such as College of the Redwoods Art Gallery have featured Nancy Tobin's work in the past. In MutualArt’s artist press archive, Nancy Tobin is featured in The Contemporary Art Modern Project (The Camp Gallery) Annual Fiber Exhibition: 77 Women Pulling At The Threads Of Social Discourse, Fama And Guests: We Got The Power, Opens October 11th, a piece from Miami Art Scene in October 2024.

Old Cooter Energy is a surreal, satirical figure who challenges the hierarchical power structures of age, gender, and commodification. Unapologetically inserting herself into constraining social spaces, OCE empowers others by embodying egalitarianism.

ABOUT

Nancy Tobin is a northern California artist whose innovative experiments explore themes of the body concerning place, survival, and self-reliance. Her practice includes solo gallery installations, guerrilla interventions, and site-specific land art.

2012 MFA Candidate, San Francisco Art Institute

1997 Bachelor of Arts, Cum Laude, Cal Poly Humboldt, Arcata, CA

Her work has been reviewed by Gabrielle Gopinath in Sculpture Magazine. She recently held the Inaugural exhibition of the College of the Redwoods' new Creative Arts Complex in Eureka, CA.

2024 Spring Break Art Show Los Angeles (Waitlisted)

Her 2022 solo installation Journey to the Center of the Milks at Humboldt Arts Council’s Morris Graves Museum was nominated “Best Art Event in Humboldt” by the North Coast Journal. She was awarded the HAC Faben Artist Grant.

In 2022, Tobin was named Artist of the Year by the Humboldt Arts Council’s Palette Magazine. 

2021 Afterlight Online, Field Projects, NY

2021 Group Show 5, Online Exhibition, Shrine, NY

More info: nancy-tobin.com

@nancy_._tobin