Photographer and film-maker Nic Nicosia was born in 1951 in Dallas, TX. Since, the late 1970s, Nicosia has staged and constructed sets, objects and situations to be photographed rather than reproduce something that already exists. Nicosia has exhibited his staged photographs internationally since 1980 and has been selected for the Whitney Biennials of 1983 and 2000, The Guggenheim Exxon Show in 1983 and Documenta IV, 1992. His collections include: Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; The Whitney Museum of American Art, NY; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; The Houston Museum of Fine Art, and the Dallas Museum of Art. In 1979 Nicosia exhibited a major survey at the Contemporary Arts Museum of Houston. CASA in Salamanca, Spain also mounted a retrospective in 2003. In 1984, he received a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant Award, The Tesuque Foundation Artist Fellowship Grant in 1998, and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2010. The University of Texas Press produced a major career retrospective, Nic Nicosia released in October of 2012.