Nick Mauss (b. 1980) is an American artist based in New York and Berlin.

He makes drawings, prints, and paintings that often take on sculptural presence in their presentation; his 2012 large- scale series of silkscreen prints on aluminum sheeting were propped against the wall, folded to stand upright, or rolled up on the ground, revealing only parts of the printed image. His works have a common interest in the presentation of memory and repetition.

Mauss creates his works using a variety of materials, including ceramic tablets, glaze, ink, acrylic, wooden panels, paper, and velvet appliqué, in the case of his 2012 Whitney Biennial installation. He also uses a range of techniques to apply marks and color, including rubbing, rasping, stenciling, and scraping, in addition to silkscreens and other printing techniques.

Works represented in

the Florine Stettheimer retrospective at the Lenbachhaus, Munich, 2014

Portraits d’Intérieurs at Nouveau Musée National de Monaco

Frieze Projects, London (performance) 1NVERS1ONS, working with the Northern Ballet and the National Youth Ballet, and the performance of texts and music by Kim Gordon and Juliana Huxtable. An artist’s book has been created to accompany this work.

Artist Nick Mauss prepares for his upcoming exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Opening March 16, 2018, Nick Mauss: Transmissions explores the history of American modernist ballet, continuing a hybrid mode of working he has pursued for a decade in which the roles of curator, artist, scholar, and performer converge.

Whitney Biennial in 2012

Greater New York, MoMA PS1 in 2010

Group exhibitions at institutions including

Kunsthaus Bregenz (2013)

The Walker Art Center (2011)

The Hessel Museum of Art, Bard Center for Curatorial Studies (2010)

Kunsthalle Basel (2010)

Kunsthalle Zurich (2009)

Le Magasin, Grenoble (2008)