Nathan Storey is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, curator, educator, and facilitator based in Boulder, Colorado. Storey’s work traces the relationship between printed matter and queer desire, memory, liberation, loss, and collectivity.
Storey has participated in exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Art, San Diego; 80WSE Gallery, New York; Mandeville Art Gallery, La Jolla; PS120, Berlin; Assembly Room, New York; Prattsville Art Center, Catskills; Bread + Salt, San Diego; Espacio Negativo, Guadalajara; the Houston Center for Photography, Houston; and Columbia University, New York. Storey’s work has been featured in MATTE Editions, Queer Aesthetics Journal, HereIn Journal, and the San Diego Union-Tribune.
Storey has attended workshops and residencies at the Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown; Anderson Ranch Art Center, Snowmass; and the Prattsville Art Center; Catskills.
In 2019, he founded SUBLIMATION, an artist-run space supporting multidisciplinary exhibitions by underrepresented artists in New York's Lower East Side. During the COVID-19 pandemic, SUBLIMATION advocated for emerging artists and raised emergency funds for Black Lives Matter.
In 2024, he established UNDERTOW EDITIONS, an artist-run press supporting queer artists’ printed matter and ephemera. Collaborating with emerging, mid-career, and established artists, UNDERTOW produces books, zines, editions, and other ephemera such as posters, postcards, and matchboxes. UNDERTOW is a platform for historically underrepresented visual artists who explore, cultivate, and expand queer print culture.
Storey holds a BFA from New York University and an MFA from the University of California San Diego. He is currently an Instructor in the Foundations Department at Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design.
nathanstoreyfreeman@gmail.com