Career
He received a Bachelor of Science in radio-television-film, with a concentration in motion pictures, from the University of North Texas in 1974. He was awarded a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation grant in 1984 and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2010. He currently lives and works in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Nicosia is considered a pioneer in the staged photographic movement that came into prominence in the early 1980s.
Real Pictures #11 is an example of his staged pictures. lieutenant was taken shortly after moving into a new suburban Dallas neighborhood, and uses three children who lived on his street as models.
Dallas Museum of Art
High Museum of Art (Atlanta)
Honolulu Museum of Art
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Museum of Modern Art (New York City)
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York City)
Walker Art Center (Minneapolis)
Whitney Museum of American Art (New York City).
