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Zachary Nicol is an artist, choreographer, and performer based in Chicago. Their performance and video work uses research in dance, movement, site, and image to unfold problems of representation and paradox in the performing body. 

Their solo and collaborative work has been presented at national and international venues including Museo Universitaro del Chopo, BACAL (Mexico City), Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Watershed Art & Ecology, 6018|North, Blanc Gallery, Links Hall, Pivot Arts, Trap Door Theatre, Co-Prosperity, Lumpen Radio, filmfront, OuterSpace, Compound Yellow (Chicago), Krannert Center for Performing Arts (Urbana, IL), the National Museum of Romanian Literature (Bucharest), S1 Gallery (Portland, OR), among others. 

Nicol was a 2023 Chicago Dancemakers Forum Lab Artist, has been artist in residence with Ragdale Foundation, Annas Projects, ACRE, and Links Hall, and has received support from Whistle Space, Lit & Luz, Villa Albertine and Chicago Artists Coalition. They have guest taught workshops and classes at Columbia College Chicago, University of Chicago, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and work regularly as a dramaturg for dance and theatre.

Nicol has performed and contributed to dance, film, and performance projects by artists including Anna Martine Whitehead, Andy Nicholas Li, Courtney Mackedanz, Gabriel Chalfin-Piney-Gonzalez, Adam Linder, Joe Namy, Mlondi Zondi, Alexandra Pirici, Elise Cowin + Josh Hoglund, Kim Brandt, Ginger Krebs, Catherine Sullivan, and others.