Nick Tobier
Nick Tobier is a New Yorker who has transferred much of his affection and sense of street level exploration to Detroit. Nick studied sculpture and landscape architecture, worked at Storefront for Art & Architecture in NYC for 5 years on projects and later as a designer with the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation / Bronx Division, and LandWorks Studio, Boston.
As an artist and designer, Nick focuses on the social lives of public places, both in built structures and events. He has designed and/or activated bus stops, farms, kitchens, boulevards, and has worked within and without municipal structures in Detroit, Tokyo, Toronto, and San Francisco. His work has been shown at The Queens Museum, New York, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Kunsthalle Nikolaj, Copenhagen, the Tirana Biennial, the Chicago Cultural Center, and the Prague Quadrennial. He has received grants for his projects from, among others, The Knight Foundation, The National Endowment for the Arts, and the Harpo Foundation.