Nic nicosia biography

(B. 1951)

Nic Nicosia is a Texas artist known for narrative photographs of suburban life.  Nicosia was born in Dallas and has lived most of his life in the same area where he grew up.  He received a BS degree in Radio-TV-Film from The University of North Texas in Denton in 1974.  He declined work as a film maker to open a camera shop with a loan from his father and purchased his first handheld camera to better relate to his customers.  

Nicosia’s early photographs were influenced by urban street photographers like Lee Friedlander.  Wanting to improve his skills, he sold the camera shop in 1979 and enrolled in graduate classes at UNT.  He began making photographs that were more cinematic in effect.  Inspired by the flattened perspectives of the coloring books used by his two young daughters, he created playful parodies of everyday life using family members and friends as models.  The work was a critical success and Nic