Nick Lents

Born in Stavropol, Russia, to Armenian parents, Nicholas Lents was adopted and raised in St. Paul, Minnesota. After studying Global Studies at Hamline University, Nick committed to his passion for photography and enrolled in the BFA program at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. As an Armenian American artist, he uses photography as a way to help shape his understanding of how building a sense of identity, a feeling of belonging to a community, and a notion of home are tangled up with each other, and with the physical and cultural environment(s) we find ourselves in. Using multiple photographic formats and experimenting with new formats of photographic and sculptural installation, his documentary practice focuses on diasporic communities and in-between spaces in the hopes to reveal beauty amidst precarity.