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 where his artistic practice has spanned multiple photographic formats and modes of thinking, encompassing digital and analog processes. Nick's exploration of our lived environments and underrepresented identities all reveal hidden stories of beauty amidst precarity. Nick hopes that his photography can serve as a space where audiences can consider the intersections of identity, sexuality, notions of belonging and home, self- and artistic expression.