1987
California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA. Master of Fine Arts
1985
Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL. Master of Arts
1982
University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX. Bachelor of Fine Arts

Publications

2008
She’s Got a Gun, book length manuscript, 140 images, Temple University Press, 2008. Refereed. The book is part history of American gun women, part memoir of Floyd’s Texas childhood and the loss of her brother, and a picture book with 150 historical images of women with guns, 35 of which were taken by Floyd.

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2018
Joshua Tree Art Gallery, Joshua Tree, CA. She’s Got a Gun.
2017
CUE Art Foundation, New York, NY. Weathering Time.
2017
Whitespace, Atlanta, GA. Weathering Time.
2015
The Pearl Conard Art Gallery, Ohio State University, Mansfield, OH. Weathering Time
2011
Flux 2011, Atlanta, GA. Weathering Time, 1982–2010: Video Projection.
Quickshot, Atlanta, GA. Organized by Solomon Projects. Olympic Shooters.
2009
Brenau Gallery, Brenau University, Gainesville, GA. She’s Got a Gun.
2008
Solomon Projects, Atlanta. She’s Got a Gun.
2006
Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Willamette University, Salem, OR. James M. Floyd Memorial.
2003
Solomon Projects, Atlanta. Weathering Time, video projection.
2002
Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA. Weathering Time
1998
Natalie and James Thompson Art Gallery, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA. Stopping Power.

Selected Group Exhibitions

2019
SHOWING (WORK X FAMILY): (2019) The Art Gallery at the Fulginiti Pavilion, Center for Bioethics and Humanities, University of Colorado, Aurora, CO (2018) University Art Gallery, California State University Stanislaus, Turlock, CA.
2018
Space Nau Bostik Ferran Turné 11, Barcelona, Spain. 5th Biennial of Fine Art & Documentary Photography.
Site: Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY. Contemporary Photography 2008-2018. Curated by Kristen Gaylord, Beaumont & Nancy
Newhall Curatorial Fellow in the Department of Photography at MoMA
Arena 1 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA. Every (single) Day.
2017
Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta. Fast Forward / Rewind.
Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta, GA. Unloaded. Curated by Dashboard.
Artwork Network Gallery, Denver CO. Critical Mass Top 50 Show: Markers of Time. Curated by David Rosenberg.
2016
Work | Release, Norfolk, VA. Under the Gun. Ten photographs.
2016
Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia, Athens. Continuum.
Rosemary Duffy Larson Gallery, Broward College, Davie, Florida. Girls and Guns, three-person exhibition.
Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA. Community Slide Show: Deconstructing Dynasty. Curated by Vesna Pavlovic. https://vimeo.com/179503182
Atlanta Photography Group Gallery, Atlanta, GA, Portfolio 2016. Weathering Time, eight photographs. Curated by Lisa Sutcliffe, Photography Curator, Milwaukee Museum of Art.
Soho Photography Gallery, NYC. National Photography Competition. Juror Elisabeth Biondi.
Drawl Southern Contemporary, Little Rock, AR. The Gun Show.
2015
Works Gallery, San Jose, CA. American Gun Show.
Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum, San Antonia, Texas. Everyday is Ordinary.
The Lubeznik Center, Michigan City, Indiana. Looking Glass: Exploring Self-Portraiture.
2013
Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta. Georgia Artists Selecting Georgia Artists.
2012
Scope Miami, Hagedorn Gallery, Miami, Florida
Billboard Art Project, Atlanta, GA. A Road To Nowhere.
FotoFreo 2012, Perth, Australia. Divergence.
Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, VA. She Got Game.
Leigh Gallery, Clemson University, Clemson, SC. Alignments.
2011
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid, Spain. Heroines.
Sol Mednick Gallery, University of the Arts, Philadelphia. Behind the Atom Curtain: Life and Death in the Nuclear Age.
2010
Jackson Fine Art, Westside Project Space, Atlanta. POST-Her.
Seigfred Hall, Ohio University. Rehearse, Rewind, Repeat: Photography, Video and Performance.
Hand in Hand: (2010) Athens Institute of Contemporary Art, Athens, GA.; The Chaffee Art Center, Rutland, VT; (2009) Western Kentucky University Gallery, Bowling Green KY.
2009
Centre for the Living Arts, Mobile, AL. FADE.
Cherry Lion Gallery, Atlanta. What’s Happening Now?
2008
McMaster Gallery, Columbia, SC. PHOTOGRAPHY: SOUTHEAST an Invitational Exhibition.
2007
Robert B. Menschel Media Center, Syracuse, NY. A Just Image: Selections from the Light Work Collection
2001-06
Game Face: (2006) Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Miami, FL, de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA, Phoenix Central Library, Phoenix, AZ; (2005) The Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ, Jacksonville Museum of Modern Art, Jacksonville, FL.; (2004) St. Louis Science Center, St. Louis, MO; World Financial Center, New York City, NY; Fisher Gallery at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA; (2003) Chicago Historical Society, Chicago, IL.; (2002) Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, MA.; NCAA Hall of Champions, Indianapolis, IN.; The Women’s Museum, Dallas, TX.; (2001) Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC.
2000
White Columns, New York, NY. Wine, Women and Wheels
Laemmle Grand Fourplex Theatre, Los Angeles, CA. Before & After. Part of Projections: Intermission Images IX, Side Street Projects.
The Mattress Factory, Atlanta, GA. 808 East Main Street.
Holter Museum of Art, Helena, MT. 808 East Main Street.
1997
Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA. Multiple Identities.
The Clement Gallery, Toledo, OH. Fun with Dick and Jane.
Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee, FL. Bang! The Gun as Image.
1996
Side Street Projects, Santa Monica, CA. Detours ’96: Venice.
California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA. In Our Sights: Artists Look at Guns.
1995
Moreau Galleries, Notre Dame, IN. Women Facing Fear.
Gallery 400, Chicago, IL. Arresting Images.
1203 Art Space, San Antonio, TX. Redefining Legacies.
1994
Lawndale Art and Performance Center, Houston, TX. Image as Issue.
Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. Underexposed.
Abc No Rio, New York, NY. No More Nice Girls.
1993
Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA. At the End of the 20th Century: Values?
1992-90
The Atomic Photographers Guild: (1992) II International Radiation Victims Conference, Berlin, Germany; Stadtgalerie Saarbrucken, Saarbrucken, Germany; (1991) Weltkongreß der Non-governmental Organizations, Paris, France; Niedersachsisches Umweltministerium, Hannover, Germany; Tagung der Partnerstadte von Hiroshima und Nagasaki, Kiel, Germany; 10. Weltkongreß der IPPNW, Stockholm, Sweden; (1990) Frauen-Museum, Bonn, Germany; Neue Gesellschaft fur Bildende Kunst, Berlin, Germany
1992-87
A Different War: Vietnam in Art: (1992) Miami University Art Museum, Oxford, OH; Museum of Art, Washington State University, Pullman, WA; (1991) CU Art Galleries, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO; Davenport Art Museum, Davenport, IA; Wight Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; (1990) Madison Art Center, Madison, WI; Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH; Mary and Leigh Block Gallery, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL; (1989) DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA; Whatcom Museum of History and Art, Bellingham, WA; Northern Essex Community College, Haverhill, MA; Nancy Floyd, page 2 of 3 Higgins Armory Museum, Worchester, MA; Russell Library, Middletown, CT; (1987) Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, D.C.
1992-88
James M. Floyd Memorial: (1992) Hampshire College Gallery, Amherst, MA; (1990) Toyama, Japan, Hokkaido, Japan; Okinawa, Japan; (1989) Hiroshima, Japan.

Books from Nancy FLOYD