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NANCY SKOLOS
risd connection: Professor, Department of Graphic Design; at RISD since 1989
about her work: As half of the graphic design
partnership Skolos/Wedell, Nancy Skolos is known internationally for
work that integrates photography, type and design in often “illusory”
compositions. She credits early modern artists such as Malevich, Leger
and de Chirico with inspiring some of the surrealistic effects she and
photographer Tom Wedell (also a faculty member in Graphic Design)
achieve through collage techniques and multiple exposures; dubbed a
“techno-cubist” by one critic, Skolos agrees that she has “always looked
towards the cubists for inspiration, in terms of creating dynamic
three-dimensional space.”
professional practice: Skolos/Wedell pieces are
included in the graphic design collections of many of the world’s major
museums. In addition to the slew of awards they have received in
international competitions and publications, the designers are
frequently invited to discuss their work and their distinctive joint
process at American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) conferences and
colleges such as Cooper Union, the University of Washington, Cranbrook
Academy of Art and Pratt Institute. In 2003 AIGA/Boston recognized
Skolos’s contributions to the field, as well as her “ethical, generous
and good-natured presence in [the design] community,” with its biannual
Fellows Award.
selected exhibitions + awards
2002 US Design 1975-2000, Denver [CO] Art Museum
2002 Korea International Poster Biennale
2001 50th Anniversary Alumni Choice Exhibition, Yale University School of Art
1999 The American Modern Poster, Beijing, China
1999 Invitational Poster Exhibition, Dansk Plakatmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark
1998 International Biennale of Graphic Design, Brno, Czech Republic
1997 Skolos-Wedell, Schule für Gestaltung, Basel, Switzerland
1997 Mixing Messages, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, NYC
1996-2001 Best of New England Show, AIGA/Boston; Best of Show Award, 2001, 1996
1985-2000 International Poster Triennial, Toyama, Japan; Bronze Medal, 1988
1981-2000 Lahti Poster Biennial, Finland; Silver Prize, 1985
1978-2002 International Poster Biennale, Warsaw, Poland
public collections
Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris
Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York, NY
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
The Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
education
Yale University School of Art, MFA in Graphic Design, 1979
Cranbrook Academy of Art, BFA in Design, 1977
University of Cincinnati, Industrial Design, 1975-77
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