Nathan Wright’s practice combines sculpture and installation with video, experimental material processes, and glass fabrication. Working through documentation, intervention, reconstruction, and assemblage, he investigates how memory, technology, ecology, and geography shape the ways humans understand and inhabit the world.

His work is particularly concerned with the relationship between individual and environment, and with the landscapes, routes, landmarks, and routines through which collective experiences of belonging and displacement are produced. Insects (especially eusocial species such as ants, bees, and termites) become both metaphor and methodological lens, allowing Wright to examine how systems of coordination, labor, and communication operate across biological and technological domains. These entanglements extend into broader scientific imaginaries where the boundaries between organism, machine, and environment become increasingly porous.

Drawing from histories of science, religious mysticism, speculative fiction, and insect systematics, Wright uses glass, moving image, and architectural interventions to reconstruct fragments of experience and observation. These fragments function as provisional maps through which technological mediation, ecological interdependence, and cultural memory can be traced. At the same time, they reveal the spatial operations of power—such as urban planning, surveillance, waste management, and pesticide use—as systems that often mirror or disrupt the logics of insect colonies and other nonhuman social structures.

Originally from New Jersey, Wright received his MFA from Duke University and BFA from RISD. He was a Creative Glass Fellow at Wheaton Arts and Culture Center and a Teaching Fellow at Duke University, and has been an artist-in-residence at ArtFarm Nebraska and Bunker Projects. His recent exhibitions include Fraudulent Applications of Projection at Chazan Gallery, Miscellaneous Earth at the Rubenstein Arts Center, and group exhibitions at Rooms and Works, Angell Street Galleries, and Utopia Exhibition. He has taught at RISD, Duke University, UNC Greensboro, and WPI. Wright lives and works in Providence, RI.

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