Born in 1959 in Fulton, Missouri, Nick Cave is an artist and educator whose work exists across mediums and disciplines. Since completing his first Soundsuit in 1992, Cave has achieved widespread recognition throughout the contemporary art world. He completed his BFA at the Kansas City Art Institute (1982) and his MFA at Cranbrook Academy of Art (1989), where he studied under ACC Gold Medalist Gerhardt Knodel. He is represented by the Jack Shainman Gallery in New York City, and he has mounted solo exhibitions at institutions around the country, including the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art and the Saint Louis Art Museum. With his wearable works, performance has become an essential aspect of Cave’s practice. In 2013, he mounted the performance piece Heard at Grand Central Terminal in New York, working in collaboration with choreographers and dancers from the Alvin Ailey School. In addition to maintaining a robust personal art practice, Cave leads the graduate program in fashion at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and he has lectured around the country. He received the Americans for the Arts 2014 Public Art Network Year in Review Award, the Joan Mitchell Foundation Award (2008), and multiple Creative Capital Grants (2002, 2004, and 2005). Cave was elected a Fellow of the American Craft Council in 2016.