Travis Nikolai was still an undergraduate when his work was accepted into the 2009 35×35 exhibit, where it won a People’s Choice award. A year later he graduated and relocated to Portland, Oregon, where he is pursuing an MFA in the Visual Studies program at the Pacific Northwest College of Art. He performs gallery coordination duties for two spaces at the college while working part time at an installation space called PLACE, where he will be curating a show called Ministry of the Interior, a group show looking at ways we codify, archive and fictionalize memories. He continues to exhibit regularly, and below is a detail image from a recent installation titled Joy @ Last to Know There is No Happiness in the World.