Nicola Goode
MFA Public Practice, Otis College of Art and Design, 2014
BFA, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
Biography
Nicola Goode, born and raised in Los Angeles received her BFA in fine art from Yale University. For over 20 years she has used her camera to document street life and youth culture around the world. A member of the Society of Motion picture Still Photographers and the Cinematographer’s Guild, she has worked as a still photographer capturing publicity photos on numerous feature films, television projects and documentaries. Her work has been published in magazines and books and exhibited widely. She collaborated with author Hillary Carlip on the groundbreaking book ‘Girl Power’, published by Time Warner, which documented American teen girl culture. Her still photos shot on the set of Taylor Hackford’s Academy Award winning film, “Ray”, were published in a book that accompanied the film’s release. She worked with celebrated writer David Ritz on ‘Messengers’, portraits of African American ministers and gospel singers, published by Random House. She has been documenting in photos and writing, the lives of L.A.’s transgender community and has taught photo workshops at Hollywood’s Children’s Hospital to LGBT youth at risk. She pursues projects that involve the sculptural and architectural installation of photo and film based work. She is currently a candidate to receive her MFA in 2014 in Public Practice at Otis College of Art and Design. When she is not elsewhere, Nicola can be found in Venice, California with her husband Sean and son Dylan.
research, and curatorial projects such as her thesis installation at Mack Sennett Studios in Hollywood.
After graduating from the MFA Public Practice program, Nicola and Tracee founded Little House Gallery, a thriving space for experimentation as well as an occasional private residence for artists. Located in a 1907 Venice Beach bungalow at the junction of a commercial and residential district, it remains virtually unchanged and bears witness to an iconic California neighborhood’s shifting cultural and economic history.
Little House Gallery recognizes the home as a site of autonomy, innovation and imagination. The collaborators encourage artists, performers and thinkers to embrace diverse perspectives and platforms to further engage creativity, activism and pedagogy. They invite proposals that challenge both the notions of a gallery and the preconceived forms and functions of a domestic space.
Update Spring 2017