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Brittany Nelson (b. 1984, Great Falls, MT. Lives and works in New York, NY) explores themes of loneliness, isolation, and distance within the queer community and its parallels with space exploration. Her work has been exhibited at Luhring Augustine (New York, NY), KIASMA (Helsinki, Finland), Bonniers Konsthall (Stockholm, Sweden), Le CAP - Centre d’art (Saint Fons, France), Fotogalleriet (Oslo, Norway), Die Ecke (Santiago, Chile), Sonnenstube (Lugano, Switzerland), Trondheim Kunstmuseum (Trondheim, Norway), The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (Detroit, MI), The Brooklyn Academy of Music (New York, NY), The Cranbrook Art Museum (Bloomfield Hills, MI), The Newcomb Art Museum (New Orleans, LA) and The International Print Center (New York, NY) among others. She is the recipient of a Creative Capital Foundation Grant in Visual Arts, and Artist in Residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts and a current Artist in Residence at the SETI Institute. Her work has been featured in publications such as The New Yorker, The New York Times, Art In America, Frieze, Mousse, and Cultured Magazine.