Biography
Nate Burbeck was born in 1987 and raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He graduated in 2009 from St. John’s University in Collegeville, Minnesota and in 2010 was a participant in the School of Visual Arts Summer Residency Program in New York. His work has been exhibited in various gallery and university spaces around the United States including Anna Zorina Gallery and the School of Visual Arts in New York, The Olympia Project in Brooklyn, ThinkSpace Projects in Los Angeles, Soo Visual Arts Center in Minneapolis, GrayDuck Gallery in Austin, Texas, the Alice R. Rogers and Target galleries at St. John’s University in Collegeville, Minnesota, and the University of Nebraska, Omaha. His work has appeared in numerous online and print publications including New American Paintings, Vast Magazine, Friend of the Artist and Tomorrow's Talent. He was a recipient of a Minnesota State Arts Board grant in 2015 and 2022.
Artist Statement
My paintings depict psychologically infused narratives where the familiar is imbued with a sense of sublime mystery. Figures inhabit a world suspended between dreams and reality, transfixed by surreal aberrations, ethereal elements, and transported states of mind. Visual components are allusive reflections drawn in part from my past of growing up in an insular religious group, living in a milieu of end times prophecies, unsettling otherwise quiet perceptions of banal Midwestern normalcy.
These mysterious undercurrents are reimagined on canvas and fused with other influences, sourced from film, science fiction, magical realism, and sense of place to explore personal and universal themes of isolation, longing, wonder, and loss in an attempt to find visual equivalents for inchoate feelings, atomized and diluted with the distance of time.
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b. 1987 Minneapolis, MN
Lives and works in Minneapolis, MN
Education
2009 BA (Studio Art), St. John’s University, Collegeville, MN
Solo and Two Person Exhibitions
2020 Not Far From Here: Kent Andreasen and Nate Burbeck, The Olympia Project, Brooklyn, NY
2017 dēcoy: Nate Burbeck, GrayDUCK Gallery, Austin, TX
2015 Altered States, Alice R. Rogers and Target Gallery, St. John’s University, Collegeville, MN
2014 Located: Nate Burbeck and Aaron Dysart, Soo Visual Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN
2014 Places Unknown, Anna Zorina Gallery, New York, NY
2013 Nate Burbeck, paintings, Joel Starkey, drawings, University of Nebraska, Omaha, NE
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 Painting Since 2000 Open Call Exhibition (online)
2024 End of the Century, Hyper Contemporary (online)
2023 Untitled 17, juror Alejandra Peña Gutiérrez (Director, Weisman Art Museum), Soo Visual Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN
2021 All Sorts, Vol. 1: Kent Andreasen, Nate Burbeck, Irit Rosenberg, The Olympia Project, online viewing room via Artsy
2020 Friends Seminary Contemporary Art Preview, David Zwirner Gallery, New York, NY
2019 The Olympia Project - McKibbin Project Space, Brooklyn, NY
2019 Booooooom x Thinkspace: Seeing Red, Thinkspace Projects, Culver City, CA
2016 No Dead Artists, Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2015 The Great American Landscape, Flinn Gallery, Greenwich, CT
2015 Summer Group Show, Anna Zorina Gallery, New York, NY
2014 Summer on Chelsea-Élysées, Anna Zorina Gallery, New York, NY
2013 Heart of Art, Anna Zorina Gallery, New York, NY
2012 4real, Rosalux Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2012 Intersections, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN
2011 Condition X, School of Visual Arts Westside Gallery, New York, NY
2010 Summer Residency Open Studios, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
Fairs and Auctions
2021 Friends Seminary Benefit Auction (online via Artsy)
2020 Friends Seminary Benefit Auction
2017 Art Alliance Austin - Art City Austin (with GrayDuck Gallery), Austin, TX
2014 Art Hamptons (with Anna Zorina Gallery), Bridgehampton, NY
Residencies
2010 Summer Residency Program, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
Awards and Grants
2022 Minnesota State Arts Board Creative Support for Individuals Grant
2015 Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grant
2009 Undergraduate Research Travel Grant, St. John’s University
2005 - 2009 Art Merit Scholarship, St. John’s University
Selected Publications and Features
Array, Booooooom, 2024
New American Paintings 161, Midwest Issue, 2022
Friend of the Artist, Vol. 15, 2022
Emerging Artists Interview, Contemporary Art Collectors, February 2022
Interview with Aaron Sehmar, The Flying Fruit Bowl Podcast, Jan. 25, Feb. 1, 2022
The Flying Fruit Bowl, December 7, 2021
Tomorrow’s Talent Vol. II, Booooooom, 2021
Vast Art Magazine Issue n°01, August 17, 2020
Artist Spotlight: Nate Burbeck, Booooooom, October 31, 2018
Nate Burbeck, Paisajes Alterados, lamono Magazine, January 10, 2016
The American Frontier: an Interview with Nate Burbeck, David Linnz and Jaymee Atlas, .DVYZE Magazine, April 29, 2015
SooVAC Artists Explore Place and Texture, Sheila Regan, City Pages, June 23, 2014
Interview with Elena Lavorato, SooVAC Blog, June 4, 2014
New in Town: Chelsea Galleries, Blair Murphy, Bmoreart, March 6, 2014
Interview with Sarah Robbins, Dirty Laundry Magazine, Issue No. 4 – December 16, 2013
Ten Artists to Watch in 2013, Jehra Patrick, Walker Art Center, January 2, 2013
Studio Visit Magazine, Vol. 17, Open Studios Press, Boston, MA, 2012