York College Arts Gallery

Opened in 1989, the Gallery presents several professional exhibitions each year, ranging from solo and thematic group exhibitions to student shows at the close of each semester.

York College Arts Gallery is proud to present  AUGMENTED ARCHIVES-Surreal Recollections of History in Moving Images, a Video Art Retrospective of work by York's own Caroline Voagen Nelson. 

Nelson is a media artist working in animation, digital art, and installation. Her work has a collaged, atmospheric aesthetic that brings to life moments from history, mythology, and memory. She collects and deconstructs archives to create time-based works focused on themes such as the origins of currency, women’s voting rights, discarded history of NYC, and a Morse Code romance. This exhibition will showcase works using projection mapping, augmented reality, and multi-channel video installations. 

Nelson holds an MFA in Digital Art with a focus in Animation from Pratt Institute and a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is a 2021 NYFA Artist Fellow in Video/Film and has been an artist-in-residence at MASS MoCA and Munson art museums. Her artwork has been exhibited in galleries and museums such as Sotheby’s Institute of Art, Birmingham Museum of Art, Brooklyn Academy of Music, and the Museum of the City of New York.

Her award-winning animated shorts have screened at film festivals around the world, including Ann Arbor Film Festival, Florida Film Festival, Animasivo el Festival in Mexico City, the 2023 Spring/Break Art Fair and Tricky Women at Filmarchiv Austria. She has given several lectures and artist talks on experimental animation. 

Nelson has a background as a photo/video journalist with her prior work featured in numerous publications including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, New York Magazine, Art News Magazine, and Time Out NY. She has worked on animations for CNN, MTV and Vox. She co-founded a production studio with her collaborators: CUPALOY Studio.