EDUCATION  

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MArch, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2008-present

Massachusetts College of Art, B.F.A. Sculpture, Boston, Massachusetts, 2001
Graduated with Distinction and Departmental Honors

Glasgow School of Art, Semester Abroad, Glasgow, Scotland, 2000

The Island School, Summer Program, Skopelos, Greece, 1998


SELECTED
EXHIBITIONS
 

Secret Boxes, Carroll Arts Center, Westminster, MD, 2011

What Makes Us Smile, The American Visionary Art Museum, Baltimore, MD, 2010

Brain Storm, Dr. Kenneth Germeshausen Art ExperienCenter, DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA, 2009

Trash Menagerie, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA, 2009

Winter Artist-in-Residence Exhibition, McColl Center for Visual Arts, Charlotte, NC, 2008

Toys and Games: More Than Amusement,
Revolving Museum, Lowell, MA, 2008

This Land is Your Land[fill], Esther Prangley Rice Gallery, McDaniel College, Westminster, MD, 2007

Open, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT, 2007

BHS Alumni Art Exhibit, Bedford Free Public Library, Bedford, MA, 2006

Annual AIDS Benefit, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA, 2006

Dwelling: Memory, Architecture and Place, Forest Hills Cemetery, Boston, MA, 2006

Beauty in Building Materials, Boston Art Windows, Boston, MA, 2006

17th Annual Benefit Art Auction, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA, 2006

normalife unlimited, normalife, Carnaby, London, UK, 2006

Annual AIDS Benefit, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA, 2005

Found It!, ArtWorks!, Partners for Arts & Community, New Bedford, MA, 2005

2005 DeCordova Annual Exhibition, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA, 2005

16th Annual Benefit Art Auction, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA, 2005

Sculpture at the Whistler, Whistler House Museum of Art, Lowell, MA, 2004

Subterranean Angels, Revolving Museum LAB, Lowell, MA, 2004

Doors Unhinged, Market Gallery, Lowell, MA, 2004

15th Annual Benefit Art Auction, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA, 2004

First Annual Spring Equinox Gala, Evos Arts Institute, Lowell, MA, 2004

The Next Step, Bedford Free Public Library, Bedford, MA, 2004

LocalMotive: Public Art off the Beaten Path, Revolving Museum, Lowell, MA, 2003

14th Annual Benefit Art Auction, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA, 2003

Performance Weekend, First Expressions Gallery, Boston, MA, 2000

Beyond Walls, The Little White Box, Boston, MA, 2000

 

HONORS AND AWARDS  

MIT Department of Architecture Merit Fellowship Award, Cambridge, MA, 2009-2010

Artist-in-Residence, McColl Center for Visual Arts, Charlotte, NC, 2008

Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, New York, NY, 2007

St. Botolph Club Foundation Grant-in-Aid Award, Boston, MA, 2007

Artist-in-Residence, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE, 2007

Technical Assistant Grant, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME, 2006

Artist-in-Residence, Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, NY, 2006

Artist-in-Residence, Robert M. MacNamara Foundation, Westport Island, ME, 2006

Lowell Cultural Council Grant, Revolving Museum Installation, Lowell, MA, 2006

Artist-in-Residence, Jentel Artist Residency Program, Banner, WY, 2006

Full Fellowship Award, 4-week Residency, Vermont Studio Center (sponsored by the
Berkshire Taconic, Artist's Resource Trust Foundation) Johnson, VT, 2006

February Resident at the Artist’s Enclave at I-Park, East Haddam, CT, 2003

October Resident at the Artist’s Enclave at I-Park, East Haddam, CT, 2002

Helen Blair Crosbie Sculpture Award, Boston, MA, 2001

Foundation Auction Award, Boston, MA, 2001


COMMISSIONS  

Life Alive Organic Café, Cambridge, MA, 2010

Enterprise Bank, Westford, Dracut, Leominster, Fitchburg, MA, 2009

Revolving Museum, Lowell, MA, 2008

Enterprise Bank, Methuen, MA, 2008

Private Collector, Lowell, MA, 2007

Sheridan College (permanent installation), Sheridan, WY, 2006

Enterprise Bank, Andover, MA, 2006

Private Residence, Westford, MA, 2006

Private Residence, Lowell, MA, 2006

Revolving Museum (permanent installation), Lowell, MA, 2005

Private Residence, Prague, Czech Republic, 2005

Enterprise Bank, Tewksbury, MA, 2005

Private Residence, Lowell, MA, 2005

Private Residence, Lowell, MA, 2005

Life Alive Organic Café, Lowell, MA, 2004

“ A Visit to Lowell: A Day at Lowell National Historical Park” (illustrations), Lowell, MA, 2003

Private Residence, West Newton, MA, 2002

Private Residence, West Newton, MA, 2001

 

SELECTED
BIBLIOGRAPHY
 

Frederick News-Post, interview, “This Land is Your Land[fill]”, September 20, 2007

Carroll County Times, review, "Artist knows what to do with paper", September 13, 2007

Baltimore Sun, article, "Scenes formed of trash tell tale of land, litter", September 9, 2007

Carroll County Times, article, "Trashy artwork on display at McDaniel ", September 1, 2007

Baltimore Examiner, article, "Volicer's art is a paper landscape", September 1, 2007

Westford Eagle, article, "Westford artist gets into her art", May 2007

Art New England, article, “Artists’ Communities in the Northeast”, Feb/March 2007

Bedford Minuteman, article, “Artists in residence”, December 2006

Boston Globe, article, "From Here To Eternity", August 2006

Boston Globe, article, "A matter of life and death", July 2006

Standard Times, article, “Piecing it Together”, December 2005

South Coast Today, article, “Two city galleries offer diverting, varied exhibitions”, Sept 2005

Sculpture Magazine, review, “2005 DeCordova Annual Exhibition”, November 2005

Sculpture Magazine, photo, “Nadya Volicer, Home Spun, 2005”, September 2005

WICN 90.5, radio interview, “Inquiry”, June 2005

Lowell Sun, article, “Surf's up in sculptor's work at DeCordova”, June 2005

Boston Globe, article, “Variety Blooms at DeCordova Annual”, May 2005

Boston Phoenix, article, “Going with the flow charts”, May 2005

Boston Phoenix, article, “Perennials and Obsessions,” April 2005

Bedford Minuteman, article, “Welcome Back - Alumni Display Art”, December 2003

Backbay Chronicle, article, “Beyond Walls/Metabolic Machina”, August 2000


TEACHING  

Instructor, Sculpture Workshop, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME, 2011

Teaching Assistant, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 2010

Workshop Artist, Education Department, DeCordova Musem and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA 2009-present

Workshop Artist, Lowell Community Charter School, Lowell, MA, 2010

Instructor, Paper Casting Workshop, McDaniel College, Westminster, MD, 2008

Teaching Assistant, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME, 2006
Workshop Artist, Youth Program, Revolving Museum, Lowell, MA, 2004-05

Teaching Assistant, Sculpture Department, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA, 2000-01