Jacqueline W. Nuzzo (b. 1995) is an artist and researcher working in printmaking, drawing, and textiles.
Nuzzo's research investigates the aesthetic threshold between order and disorder in visual systems, exploring how symmetry, asymmetry, repetition, and disruption interact to produce complex perceptual and affective responses. Through iterative works, she aims to identify the “edge of chaos,” a conceptual space where structured patterns verge on disorder without collapsing into incoherence. These compositions explore how a pattern can serve both as an anchor and as an interlocutor with the figure, probing the dynamic interplay between structure, variation, and perception. Utilizing the grid as a visual motif and system of organization, she also investigates the effects of repetition through art historical, philosophical and psychological frameworks. As part of her MFA degree, she published her written thesis "Patterns of Disruption: Repetition and Originality" through The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Jacqueline W. Nuzzo graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2024 with an MFA in Printmedia, and St. Olaf College in 2017 with a BA in Studio Art and Biology.
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JACQUELINE W. NUZZO
Email: jwnuzzo@gmail.com
URL: https://jacquelinenuzzo.com
EDUCATION
2024 Masters of Fine Arts, Printmedia, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2017 Bachelor of Arts, Studio Art and Biology, BA Concentration China Studies, St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN
SELECTED LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE
2024 Associate Studio Creative Director, Maya Romanoff, Chicago, IL
2020 - 2022 Lead Digital Artist and Content Manager, Grand Image LTD, Seattle, WA
ADDITIONAL PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2022 Digital Art and Photo Intern, NBC Universal, Chicago, IL
2018 - 2020 Lead Producer, Next Day Animations, Minneapolis, MN
2017 - 2018 Gallery Assistant, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
2011 - 2015 Exhibitions and Gallery Assistant, The Current (formerly Helen Day Art Center), Stowe, VT
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Teaching Assistant, School of the Art Institute of Chicago — 2023 - 2024
Printed Fabric Workshop
Screenprinting: Multi-Level
Artists' Books
Expanded Lithography
Printmedia Practices
AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS
2024 Georgia O'Keeffe "My New Yorks" Award Nominee
2023 AICAD Fellow Nominee
2022 - 2024 Bluhm Family Scholarship Recipient
RESIDENCIES
2019 - 20 Studio #400 Program by Public Functionary, Minneapolis, MN (March 2019 – 2020)
2018 Proof Public Artist Residency, Minneapolis, MN (June 11 – November 18)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023
Contorting the Grid, LeRoy Neiman Center, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2019
Recent Works by Jacqueline Nuzzo, Sure Space Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2017
Flow x Fluidity, Buntrock Cage Gallery, St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026
(upcoming) PLOT Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2024
The Function, Public Functionary, Minneapolis, MN
Marwen’s 25 @ 833 Exhibition, Marwen, Chicago, IL
Grad Show One, Site Galleries, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2023
Connecting the Dots, Co-Prosperity, Chicago, IL
Fuzz, Purple Window Gallery at Mana Contemporary, Chicago, IL
Conscious Containment, Color Club Arts, Chicago, IL
Mirror Passage, Hennepin Theater Trust Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2023 Escape In/ Out, Follow Art, Milan, Italy
2020
C4W:2020, Gamut Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
Disquietude, Whitebear Center for the Arts, White Bear Lake, MN
2019
Studio 400 Collective, Studio 400 Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2018
Artists in Residence Exhibition, FontLove Studio, Minneapolis, MN
2017
Member’s Art Show, Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, VT
Senior Studies Exhibition, Flaten Art Museum, St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN
The Quarry Literary Arts Magazine, Groot Gallery, St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN
St. Olaf Juried Show, Groot Gallery, St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2026
Mohl, E.K., Noel, K.E., Saunders, P.A., McCall, A.C., Cipollini, K.A., Kula, A.A.R., Garneau, D.E., Scanga, S.E., Gartner, T.B., Nuzzo, J.W., Povilatis, S.C., & Johnson, M.Q. (2025). Geographic variation in compensation to damage in common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca). [Plant Ecology and Evolution].
https://doi.org/10.5091/plecevo.162396
2025
Magazine™ 2025, print publication.
2024
Nuzzo, J. (2024). Patterns of Disruption: Repetition and Originality [Master’s thesis,
School of the Art Institute of Chicago].
https://digitalcollections.saic.edu/node/92126
Leslie Barlow and Tricia Heuring,
"In Here Out There: Five Years of PF Studios", 36, 102, 103. Print.
2023
HOAX Magazine, Issue 7, print publication.
Caitlin Curtis,
How Does Your State Define Sexual Consent? - Understanding Sexual Consent Laws in the U.S., Womanly Magazine, Issue No. 7: S-E-X. Online publication.
2019
Gabby Coll,
Leaders of the New School: Studio 400, In Studio Magazine Spring 2019, May 14, 2019. 23. Print.
2019, NEMAA Member Directory & Art-A-Whirl® Guide, May 14, 2019. 26, 86. Print.
2018
Stowe Guide & Magazine, Summer/Fall 2018, Stowe Reporter LLC. Cover image. Print.
2017
The Reed Undergraduate Journal of Existentialism. 2017. St. Olaf College, in association with the Hong Kierkegaard Library. Cover image. Print.
PANELS AND PRESENTATIONS
2023
"The Grid, Movement and Perception", speaker, Fiber and Material Studies, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, February 6.
“Grad Talk Series: 2nd Year MFAs”, speaker, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, September.
“Jacqueline Nuzzo: Artist Talk”, speaker, Printmedia, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago IL, February 27.
“Grad Talk Series: 1st Year MFAs”, speaker, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, March 22.
2020
“Disquietude Virtual Artist Panel”, panelist, Whitebear Center for the Arts, September 24.
2018
“Community Arts Grant Panel”, Metropolitan Regional Arts Council Capital Grant Review, panelist, St. Paul, MN.
“Entrepreneurship & Freelancing in the Arts,” Making it in the Arts, panelist, St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN, September 18.
CO-AUTHORED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
2019
Geographic variation in the growth responses of common milkweed to damage. Emily K. Mohl, Jacqueline W. Nuzzo, and Kate E. Noel. Biology, St. Olaf College. Ecological Society of America Annual Conference, Louisville, KY.
Plasticity and Population Differentiation in Common Milkweed: Implications for Restoration. Mohl, E.K., Johnson, M.Q., Lor, Z., Noel, K.E., Nuzzo, J., Vargas, D., & Povilaitis, S.C. Society for Ecological Restoration – Midwest-Great Lakes Chapter Meeting.
2017
How herbivores consume plants: The implications of fixed versus proportional damage. Mohl, E.K., Kern, G.B., Nuzzo, J.W., & Heimpel, G.E. Biology, St. Olaf College & Department of Entomology, University of Minnesota. Ecological Society of America Annual Conference, Portland, OR.
COLLECTIONS
2018 Stowe Historical Society, Stowe, VT.