Nathan Wright

Nathan Borradaile Wright works with documentation, intervention, reconstruction, and assemblage in order to visualize the complex processes by which the imagination is anchored in the material world. His practice combines historical glass techniques with new media installation, often in dialogue with histories of science including alchemy, entomology, and cartography. Key themes in his work include scale, the relationship between individual and environment, collective and cultural memory, and the spatial operation of power: urban planning, waste management, pesticide use, digital surveillance. His work is supported by a diverse research practice, incorporating perspectives from such sources as religious mysticism, speculative fiction, and insect systematics.

Originally from New Jersey, he received his MFA from Duke University and BFA from RISD. He was selected as a Creative Glass Fellow at Wheaton Arts and Culture Center in 2019 and served as a Teaching Fellow at Duke during the 2022-23 academic year. He has been an artist-in-residence at ArtFarm Nebraska and Bunker Projects. His recent exhibitions include Fraudulent Applications of Projection at Chazan Gallery (2025) and Miscellaneous Earth at the Rubenstein Arts Center (2022), as well as group exhibitions at Rooms and Works (2026), Angell Street Galleries (2025), and Utopia Exhibition (2024). He has taught at RISD, Duke, UNC Greensboro, and WPI.