Opening reception: Friday, September 4, 2026 from 5-8pm
Exhibition run: September 4 – October 9, 2026
Free and open to the public.
Martha Street Studio is pleased to present Language is Leaving Me, a solo exhibition by Nic Wilson.
Language is Leaving Me encompasses the last ten years of Wilson’s writing and publishing practice. During art school, they began to make and distribute cassettes with friends and bandmates. This DIY approach to cultural production has remained essential to their work as an artist, writer, and publisher.
Wilson’s writing and publishing practice is often motivated by the process of navigating and producing texts. He explores how words might reproduce or represent the layered complexities and looping structures of thought. Through encounters with subjects like mysticism, philosophy, spirit photography, and biography, Wilson questions the boundaries of art, criticism, theory, and literature as well as those of looking, seeing, sensing, and reading.
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Artist Bio:
Nic Wilson (they/he) is an artist born in the Wolastoqiyik territory known as Fredericton, NB, in 1988. He graduated with a BFA from Mount Allison University and an MFA from the University of Regina, where he was a SSHRC graduate fellow. They have shown work across Canada and participated in projects with Remai Modern, Plug In ICA, Art Souterrain, and the Mackenzie Art Gallery. They have shown work internationally in Italy, Mexico, Colombia, and Sweden. In 2021, Wilson was long-listed for the Sobey Art Award and was the 2022 writer-in-residence for G44 Centre for Contemporary Photography. Wilson has given lectures and workshops on the intersection of art and writing across the country, and their writing has appeared in BlackFlash Magazine, Peripheral Review, NORK, C Magazine, and Border Crossings. In 2023, their book of essays Colossal Equine Statue was published by ARP books.
For more information on Nic Wilson’s practice, visit: https://nicwilson.org/