Neil Griess

Neil Griess is a visual artist based in Omaha, Nebraska. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2011 from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and his Master of Fine Arts in 2019 from Stanford University. Through layered imagery in painting and drawing, Griess reflects on the contemporary American landscape and its possible futures. He investigates how modes of travel and contemporary web mapping services affect the way landscapes are perceived and held in memory. Seams and distortions present in landscape images evoke an unsettled relationship between place and time.

Griess has held solo and group exhibitions nationally, with a focus in Nebraska and California, at the Museum of Nebraska Art (MONA), Kearney, NE; Nebraska Arts Council, Omaha, NE; The Union for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE; Omaha Public Library, Omaha, NE; University of Nebraska Omaha, Omaha, NE; University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE; Pottawattamie Arts, Culture & Entertainment (PACE), Council Bluffs, IA; Stanford University, Stanford, CA; among others.

In 2016 and 2023, he received awards from the Omaha Entertainment and Arts Awards and a Merit Award for the 2016 Independent Artist Fellowship in Visual Arts from the Nebraska Arts Council. His work has appeared in print in New American Paintings in 2015 as well as the textbook, Art for Everyone, from Oxford University Press, published in 2022. Since 2019, Griess has been teaching as an adjunct professor at the University of Nebraska Omaha. He currently lives and works in Omaha, NE.

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