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Nikki Swift C.V.

FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

Ohio Governor’s Award for Business Support of the Arts – 2020

Leventhal Artist Program – 2020

Ohio Arts Council – Ohio Teaching Artist 2019-2021

Artist in the Classroom Residency -ACPA – 01/2020- 05/2020

Adaptation, Integration & the Arts Residency – 2018-19
GCAC Media Arts Fellowship – 2014

EDUCATION

Ohio State University – 2005
Double Major/ History of Art and Film and Media Studies

Kent State University – 2007
Master of Library and Information Science

GRANTS

GCAC – Equipment Grant – 2012 – 2017

GCAC – Professional Development Grant – 2013

VIDEOS & EXHIBITIONS

Goodmorning – 2022

Columbus Moving Image Art Review 4/2022

Dear Montreal – 2021

OAL Thumb Box 2023

Columbus Moving Image Art Review 1/2021

Tree of Knowledge

Pennington On Paper – 10/2022

Exploration, Experimentation, Exploration, Explanation! – The Vanderelli Room 1/10/2020

Those Who Spring of Me 2020

The IndieFEST Film Awards 5/2021

Boden International Film Festival 4/2021

Champion Film Salon International Film Festival 9/2021

RealAbilities Columbus – 12/2020

360 Montage Ohio State Fair – 2020 Co-created with Jennifer Bender

Columbus Moving Image Art Review 5/2020

Columbus in Cuba 2019

Spotlight Documentary Film Awards 1/2022

Boden International Film Festival 3/2021

SoCal Film Awards 3/2021

Montreal Independent Film Festival – 9/2020

Columbus Museum of Art – 1/2020

Gateway Film Center – 12/2019

Player Piano 

Let There Be Light – The Vanderelli Room 2/2019

TechnoMEME – Pearl Conard Gallery 10/2018 -11/2018

Fuse Factory – Frequency Fridays  

Frequency Festival 5/2022

Circuitry Room 10/2018
Truus de Groot + Jeff Chenault 6/2017
Truus de Groot 6/2016

Winds of Change – Carnegie Gallery – 1/2017 – 3/2017
Darkness Visible – Pennington Custom Art Services 10/2016 – Collaboration with Matt Swift

Human Refractions: A Modern Zoopraxagraph – Independents’ Day 9/2016 – Co-created with Matt Swift

Unrecognized Dynamism  

TechnoMEME – Pearl Conard Gallery 10/2018-11/2018 

Women on Women – 400 West Rich  9/2016

Resided – 2016 An installation collaboration
The Game Show – EASE 2/2016-4/2016

Goodbye Margaret – 2016
Upper Arlington Film Festival – Upper Arlington, Ohio 5/5/2017
Moving-Image-Arts International Short Film Festival – Toronto, CA 3/23/2017
Film Forum on the Lake – Geneva, Ohio 2/5/2017
Wimberley Film Festival – Wimberley, Texas 1/14/2017
Short Short Story – Providence, Rhode Island 11/27/2016
BIDEODROMO International Experimental Film and Video Festival – Bilbao, Spain 9/12/2016
Brand New Blinkers – London, UK 8/18/2016
Ohio State Fair Fine Art Show 2016 – 8/2016 – GCAC Award
PlaceMakes – West Cherry St. Film Night – 6/15/2016
Wexner Center – Ohio Shorts – 4/30/2016
Columbus Moving Image Art Review 1/2016

180 Montage: Broad and High 2015 Co-created with Jennifer Bender
Breaking Waves Music and Arts Festival – Freeport, Nova Scotia 7/30/2016
Independents’ Day – 9/2015

Slow Ascent – 2014 Co-created with Matt Swift
Independents’ Day – 9/2015
Ohio State Fair Fine Art Show 2015 – GCAC Award
Ohio Made Shorts 5/2015
Sahar International Short Film Festival – 2/2015
CS Gallery – 100 Under 100 – 11/2014

Blue Beautiful Skies – Documentary 2015
Columbus Moving Image Art Review 3/2015
Hammond Harkins Gallery 1/2015

The Experimentals –
Popup Installation at Independents’ Day 9/2015

City Walks – 2011-2016
MOTE 078 – City Walks (Installation) 7/2015
City Walks: The Body, Wellness, and Urbanization  – The Oak Room  7/2014
The Oak Room – Meaningful Gestures 11/2013
Ohio State Fair Fine Art Show 2013 – GCAC Award
ComFest – Best of CMIAR 6/30/2013
A Scape – CS Gallery 5/2013
Urban Arts Space – Idea Lab: The Best of CMIAR – 10/2011
CBUS Film Screening 9/2012
BYOB Columbus 3/2012

Your Memories – 2014
Ohio State Fair Fine Art Show 2014 – 3rd Place
Columbus Moving Image Art Review 5/2014

Ennui – 2012
GCAC 2015 Public Forum 2/2015
Public Domain 10/2014
SeptemberFest 9/2012
ComFest – Best of CMIAR- 6/23/2012
Columbus Arts Fest Afterparty 6/2012
Columbus Moving Image Art Review 5/2012

Arrow of Time 2011 Co-Created with Matt Swift
The Ohio State Fair – 2012
CS Squared – CS Gallery 4/2012
Still’n Motion – CS Gallery 6/12/2011
Columbus Moving Image Art Review 5/2011

Consume 2011
Agora 5/21/2011
Columbus Moving Image Art Review 3/2011

Void 2007
Project-A-Bug – Still’n Motion 6/18/2011
Project-A-Bug – Gallery Hop 6/4/2011
Columbus Moving Image Art Review 3/2011

Lamentation 2011
ComFest – Best of CMIAR- 6/23/2012
CS Squared – CS Gallery 4/2012
Urban Arts Space – Idea Lab: The best of CMIAR – 9/20 – 10/7/2011
The Ohio State Fair – 7/27 – 8/7/2011 – Jurror’s Choice
Still’n Motion – CS Gallery 6/12/2011
Feature at Agora 5/21/2011
Appalachian Edge Film Festival 4/13/2011
Columbus Moving Image Art Review 12/2010

Can (V. 2) 2010
ComFest – Best of CMIAR- 6/22/2012
The Ohio State Fair – 7/27 – 8/7/2011
ADD Short Film Festival TBA
Appalachian Edge Film Festival 4/13/2011
Columbus Moving Image Art Review 8/20/2010

Assiduous Affliction 2010
Agora 5/21/2011
Columbus Moving Image Art Review 5/27/2010

Journey
Project-A-Bug – Grandview Art Hop 5/28/2011
Columbus Moving Image Art Review 3/11/2010

Adaptive Resolution
Columbus Moving Image Art Review 11/13/2010

FBSP Co-Created with Matt Swift
CS Squared – CS Gallery 4/2012
Still’n Motion – CS Gallery 6/12/2011
Columbus Moving Image Art Review 11/13/2010
Agora 5/2009

Kieru 2004 Co-Created with Matt Swift

LIVE STREAMING

APO Artist Talks 2023-2024

ACPA Hour 9/2020 – 12/2021

Washington Gladden Social Justice Park – Unveiling Ceremony 1/2021

Art Tells a Story, Let it Tell Yours – 4/2020 – 1/2021

Not Sheep Gallery – Voter Profile – 11/7/2020

Rise Together – Honoring the Legacy of Linda Regula 10/17/2020

Table Reads – CBIFF – 8/2020

The Vanderelli Room – The Giving Tree 6/12/2020

ACPA Graduation  – 5/2020

Deeper Connections Series – ACPA 3/2020 – 5/2020

Cbus Creatives Live – 2017 – 2018

PRESENTATIONS

Filmmaking After COVID – CIF+AF – Panel Presentation 4/17/2020

Autism + Micro-Budget Filmmaking –  ACT Conference – Panel Presentation 9/2018

Those Who Spring of Me – Showing Relationships – Reel Abilities Film Festival – Presentation 7/2018

Artist Talk – EASE Gallery 2016

Video Hosting for Video Blogging 2006

Video from Analog to Digital 2006

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Nicolettecinemagraphics – Multimedia Specialist 5/2003 – Present
Kent State University – V-Tel Monitor 6/2007 – 8/2007
OSU – Literacy Collaborative/Reading Recovery – Digital Video Editor 5/2006 – 8/2006
Columbus Museum of Art – Digital Projects Intern 8/2007 – 12/2007
OSU – Huntington Archive – Image Specialist Intern 6/2004 – 3/2005

EDITING WORK

Showdown in Amherst (sound editor) 2024

Our Terrible Son – Amachi Yah Films2023

Blue Rebellion (Second Editor) – Amachi Yah Films2021

Those Who Spring of Me – 2020

Columbus in Cuba -2019

Godspeed (2nd editor) Artistic Freedom Ltd. 10/2017
ROXË15 (Second Editor)– Artistic Freedom Ltd. 6/2017

Sick Days (Second Editor– Derek Stewart Productions 10/2015
Change My Relationship – Karla Downing 2013-2015

3 Weeks of Terror – “Chuckles in the Dark” – Whiskey Face Productions 10/2014
48 Hour Film Project Columbus, Ohio – “Stepping Down” (Second Editor) – 4, Robert Foor – 7/22-24/2011

PROJECTION WORKS

Lodestar 9/2015

Adaptations – Independents’ Day – A projection mapped experience 2014-2015

Emitting Velocity – Body Language 2014-2015 – Collaboration

PHOTOGRAPHY

Pennington Custom Art Services – Size Matters – 12/2020

The Vanderelli Room – Exploration, Experimentation, Exploration, Explanation! – 1/2020

Pennington Custom Art Services – Splinters of Light – 5/2016 – 6/2016

Urban Arts Space – 25 on High 9/2014 – 11/2014 

The Oak Room– House Home Space Place10/2014 

CS Gallery– Open Show 12/2013 

CURATOR / JUROR

Columbus International Film and Animation Festival Juror 2020-2021

Ohio Governor’s Youth Art Exhibition – Central Ohio Region – 2016

Independents’ Day Film Committee – 2014-2017

Journal of Short Film – Production Assistant – 2011 – 2016

Souled World – The Oak Room 12/2014 – 1/2015 

Columbus Moving Image Art Review 2009-2018

Student Film Fest 2014 – 2015

Wizard World Film Fest 2013 

Columbus International Film + Video Festival – Student Division Co-Chair  2011 – 2014 

Campus Movie Fest – OSU 2010

PRESS

“’Those Who Spring of Me’ and the many obstacles of indie filmmaking,” Joel Oliphant, Alive, 17 November 2020

“Ohio State Alumni Co-Direct A Film Featuring Couple With Autism” Denise Cameron, The Lantern at OSU, 17 November 2020

“Area filmmakers spotlight those on autism spectrum for ReelAbilities Columbus festival,” Peter Tonguette, The Columbus Dispatch, 14 November 2020

“Arts community shares its story,” Together As Buckeyes, 10 July 2020

“Matt and Nikki Swift celebrate 20 years of near-continuous filming,” Andy Downing, Alive, 10 January 2020

“The Autism Puzzle Part 3” Jerod Smalley, NBC4 Columbus, 3 April 2019

“Ohio State professor provides new film opportunities to students within the disabled community,” Romi Azulay, The Lantern at OSU, 11 March 2019