Nicole White uses historical and contemporary photographic processes to examine the medium’s varied functionality while studying the cultural landscape around us. She holds a BFA from Massachusetts College of Art, a MA in Art History from the University of Connecticut, and an MFA in Studio from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

White has exhibited her work internationally, most recently at the Griffin Museum of Photography in Massachusetts, Chung24 Gallery in San Francisco, and TILT Institute for the Contemporary Image in Philadelphia. Her work was published in Der Grief and JRNL, in 2020 and 2022, respectively. In 2024, she was included in the +KGP publication, Of Covid and produced an artist book with National Monument Press, entitled Dream House. White’s collaborative 2021 publication, Rolls & Tubes: A History of Photography, is in the collections of San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, and the New Orleans Museum of Art, among others.

A selection of images are available through Art at Home

Contact
Email: othernicolewhite@gmail.com
Instagram: @othernicolewhite

Dream House

Dodeca Meters Issue #7 published by National Monument Press

The photographs in Dream House reside in a space between document and fantasy. They depict the process of new homeowners attempting to make a house livable over the course of many months. Nothing is straightforward, everything is complicated, and the photographs illustrate that madness along with moments of respite.

These photographs also exist as individual prints in a limited edition.

Dream House is 36 pages, risograph printed in Scarlet on Domtar & French paper with an SF9450. 5x8".
Edition of 200 +25.
Published July 2024.

Dream House may be purchased here.
See more images from the series here.

A Basic Guide to Photography

153 pages, ISBN: 979-8-218-29251-5
All text, images, and illustrations by Nicole White.

My 2023 self-published textbook, A Basic Guide to Photography, is available as a free PDF to anyone needing a resource for their photography classes. It provides a general technical overview of the universal characteristics of photography for digital and analog practices. The guide is meant to be an equitable resource that meets students where they are at. Photography is for everyone.

Please contact me if you’d like a copy of the guide.

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Full CV is available upon request.

Exhibitions
2025 Nicole White, (solo exhibition), Diablo Valley College Art Gallery, Pleasant Hill, CA
2023 Rolls and Tubes: A History of Photography, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA
2023 Rolls and Tubes: A History of Photography, Chung24 Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2021 Rolls & Tubes, TILT Institute for the Contemporary Image, Philadelphia, PA

Presentations / Lectures / Panels
2025 Presenter, “Rethinking the Textbook,” Society for Photographic Education National Conference, Peppermill Reno Resort, Reno, NV
2024 Presenter, “Rethinking the Textbook,” Society for Photographic Education West/Southwest Conference, Weber State University, Ogden, UT
2024 Panel Discussion, “Voices in Contemporary Photography,” moderator, Fotoclave, San Ramon, CA
2023 Artist Panel, “Rolls and Tubes Collective,” Chung 24 Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2022 Artist Panel, “Rolls and Tubes Collective,” Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA
2021 Panel Presenter, “Rolls and Tubes Collective,” Format Festival, Mass Isolation Format, IGTV, Darby, UK
2021 Panel Presenter, “Rolls and Tubes Collective,” Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA

Publications
2024 Nicole White, Dream House, (National Monument Press, Oakland, CA), edition of 200, July 2024.
2024 Humble Arts Foundation (editor), OF COVID, (+KGP | Monolith, Queens, NY).
2023 Nicole White, A Basic Guide to Photography, self-published, ISBN: 979-8-218-29251-5.
2023 Himes, Darius D. and Mary Virginia Swanson, “Case Study,” in Publish Your Photography Book (Santa Fe, NM: Radius Books).
2023 Photo Trouvée Magazine, August edition, Issue 11.
2022 Fotofilmic JRNL, Winter 2022, Issue 11, Vancouver, Canada
2021 Rolls & Tubes: A History of Photography, [with Corey Keller], R&T Press. San Francisco, CA. ISBN: 978-0-578-88422-6

Bibliography
2023 Seikaly, Roula. “For Rolls and Tubes Collective, Toilet Paper Became a Creative Medium During Pandemic,” KQED Arts & Culture, Feb. 14, 2023.
2023 Roth, David M. “The Toilet Paper Chronicles,” Square Cylinder, Feb. 12, 2023.
2022 Bubacz, Kate. “You Need To See These Famous Photographs Re-Created With Toilet Paper,” Buzzfeed News, Jan. 31, 2022.
2021 Smithson, Aline. “Covid Project: Rolls and Tubes Collective,” Lenscratch, Feb. 17, 2021.

Collections
Meyer Library, California College of the Arts
FotoFocus Photobook Collection, Mary R. Schiff Library, Cincinnati Art Museum
Special Collections, Claremont Colleges
Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, & Rare Book Library, Emory University
Fine Arts Library, Harvard University
Special Collections, Humboldt State University
Anne Wright Wilson Fine Arts Gallery, Georgetown College, Georgetown, KY
Hirsch Library Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Indie Photobook Library, Washington, D.C.
Latitude Photographic Library, Chicago, IL
Photography and the Archive Research Centre, London College of Communication
Postcard Collective, Tucson, AZ
New Orleans Museum of Art
Princeton University Library

Library + Archives, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Ella Strong Denison Library, Scripps College
Stanford University Libraries, Department of Special Collections
Turma Library, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Special Collections, University of Arizona
Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley
Norlin Library, University of Colorado, Boulder
Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, Special Collections, University of Connecticut
Special Collections & Archives, University of Iowa
Lucille Caudill Little Fine Arts Library, University of Kentucky
Wilson Library, University of Minnesota
University of New Mexico Library
Haas Arts Library, Special Collections, Yale University