Zachary Nicol is an artist and performer based in Chicago. Their interdisciplinary work uses research in dance, movement, site, and image to unfold problems of the performing body. Their work has been presented and performed in Chicago at Links Hall, Pivot Arts Festival, Trap Door Theatre, Co-Prosperity, Lumpen Radio, filmfront, OuterSpace, Compound Yellow, the National Museum of Romanian Literature in Bucharest, and S1 Gallery in Portland. Nicol is a 2023 Chicago Dancemakers Forum Lab Artist, has been artist in residence with Ragdale Foundation, Annas Projects, ACRE, and Links Hall, and co-founded the collective venue F4F.
Nicol works frequently as a collaborative and performing artist and has contributed to recent projects by Anna Martine Whitehead, Joe Namy, Mlondi Zondi, Alexandra Pirici, and Catherine Sullivan, among many others.
