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A critic and curator based in New York, Bob Nickas has organized more than 130 exhibitions since 1984. He was on the teams responsible for Aperto at the Venice Biennale in 1993, the 7th Bienal d’Art Contemporain de Lyon in 2003, and Greater New York 2005, at MoMA/PS1, where he served as Curatorial Advisor between 2004-07. Along with Peter Halley, he was founding Editor of Index magazine, which he helmed between 1996-2000. His writing has been widely published and translated, and five collections of essays and interviews have been published to date: Live Free Or Die (2000), Theft Is Vision (2008), The Dept. of Corrections (2016), Komplaint Dept. (2018), and Corrected Proofs (2023). He also published a yearlong daily diary, Yesterworld, (2022). In 2024, he founded the New York Art Critics Association.

At MoMA/PS1, Nickas organized the first U.S. museum survey exhibitions for Lee Lozano, Wolfgang Tillmans, Tom Sandberg, and Peter Hujar, as well as curated projects with Mike Cloud, Trisha Donnelly and Torbjorn Rodland. A prolific writer, he has authored and contributed to numerous monographs and books, among them for On Kawara, Olivier Mosset, Cady Noland, Steven Parrino, Yayoi Kusama, Dan Walsh, Stephen Shore, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Anne Collier, Gardar Eide Einarsson, Tomma Abts, Robert Grosvenor, Vija Celmins, Salvo, Peter Bradley, and Kathleen Ryan.

Nickas has lectured at many museums, art schools, and universities over the past forty years, and taught at Columbia University and New York University.