(links to exhibition archives highlighted in blue)
b. 1977, Providence, Rhode Island
MFA Boston University, Boston, MA
BA Goddard College, Plainfield, VT
Solo Exhibitions
2025
Lanterns, Hexum Gallery, Montpelier, VT
2024
Heavy Light, David Richard Gallery, New York, NY
2023
Optics Part II, David Richard Gallery, New York, NY
Optics, David Richard Gallery, New York, NY
2022
Sunlight Makes Me Clean, Auxier/Kline, New York, NY
2018
Wilderness, LMAKgallery, New York, NY
2016
Speak About The Ocean, Nancy Margolis Gallery, New York, NY
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025
Flinn Gallery, Greenwich, Conn (forthcoming)
2023
What’s the Point of Precision?, Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn, NY
Twenty, MINUS SPACE, Brooklyn, NY
Support Systems (faculty exhibition), The Art Gallery at CUNY, Staten Island, NY
2021
IRL, Auxier/Kline, New York, NY
Live/Dead - curated by Leah Guadagnoli, Hillsdale, NY
Summer Stage, act two, (online exhibition), Auxier/Kline
Summer Stage, act one (online exhibition), Auxier/Kline
2020
Project: Pattern - Nate Ethier, Nicole Herbert, and Luke Murphy, Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA
Suddenly Last Summer (online exhibition), Auxier/Kline, New York, NY
Virtual Spring (online exhibition), Danese/Corey, New York, NY
Abstraction: Hot And Cool, Danese/Corey, New York, NY
2019
”Untitled (Summer)” MINUS SPACE, Brooklyn, NY
2018
Casheesh 18, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
2017
Wells Chandler, Nayda Collazo-Llorens, and Nate Ethier (three person booth with LMAKgallery), Este Arte, Punta del Este, Maldonado, Uruguay
2016
On Paper, MINUS SPACE, Brooklyn, NY
Solar Vortex , Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
Papered Stories, LMAKgallery, New York, NY
SMALL WORK: MORE or LESS, Nancy Margolis Gallery, New York, NY
2015
To The Edge: Jaqueline Cedar & Nate Ethier, Morris-Warren Gallery, New York, NY
Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program Open Studios, DUMBO Brooklyn, NY
Polysolaris, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
20 x 16, Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York, NY
Pulled, C2C, San Francisco, CA
2014
NurtureART Benefit (invitational), The Boiler/Pierogi Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Beyond Measure, SEABA Gallery, Burlington, VT
20 x 16, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
Convergence: Boston University Alumni, 808 Gallery, Boston MA
2013
Sluice Art Fair, Parallel Art Space, London, England
NurtureART Benefit, Bernarducci Meisel Gallery, New York, NY
All-over or nothing, Parallel Art Space, Ridgewood, NY
Endless Summer, Curated by Gary Petersen, Brian Morris Gallery, New York, NY
Phaedo, Storefront Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY
Overlap, Bennington Arts Center, Bennington, VT
Paper Mirror Torn, Brian Morris Gallery, New York, NY
Rituals of Exhibition II, H Gallery, Chiang Mai, Thailand
2012
X-centric, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
Resonant Frequencies: Roger Chamieh, Peter Edwards, and Nate Ethier, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA
Treasure Maps: Nate Ethier and Julie Shapiro, Lenore Gray Gallery, Providence, RI
Grid List- Detroit, Center Galleries, College for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI
Grid List- New York, Allegra LaViola Gallery, New York, NY
NurtureART Benefit, Charles Bank Gallery, New York, NY
Awards/Honors
2019 Visiting Artist, New Hampshire Institute of Art
2017 Visiting Artist, Pratt Institute
2014-2015 Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program Award (formerly the Marie Walsh Sharpe Space Program)
2013 Rema Hort Mann Foundation Emerging Artist Grant Nominee
2011 Vermont Studio Center Visual Artist Grant
Residencies
2014-2015 Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program
2011 Vermont Studio Center
Selected press / interviews
Nate Ethier on Gorky’s Granddaughter, June, 2024
Artist’s notebook: Nate Ethier - Two Coats of Paint, May, 2024
Torey Akers, The New Abstraction: 8 Artists To Start Collecting Now, Artspace, February, 2020
Jason Stopa, "Nate Ethier: Wilderness", Brooklyn Rail, March, 2018
Cate McQuaide, "Convergence: School of Visual Arts Alumni Exhibition", Boston Globe, 12/02/2014
Patrick Neal, “The Many Faces of Abstraction”, Hyperallergic, 7/9/2013
“Age and Ageism: The Decisive Eye of Fellow Artists”, NY Arts Magazine, Summer 2013
Bill Van Siclen, “Nate Ethier: Patterns, Optical Effects Make for Eye Teasing Art”, Providence Journal, 3/1/2012