Nick Gilmore (b. 1978, Alabama) is a Miami-based artist and educator. Nick received his BA in Studio Art from Spring Hill College (1999) and his MFA from Florida International University (2014). From a young age he was drawn to the natural world and originally planned to pursue wildlife biology; later he worked extensively in the construction trades. These two trajectories factor heavily into his artwork, which focuses on the interconnectedness, as well as the disconnectedness, of the natural and built environments. Much of his art practice entails the salvage and preservation of Old Growth Dade County Pine lumber (pinus densa), a precious tree unique to south Florida and critical to the area’s history. This material, a symbol of fraught industrialism and ecological mortality, signifies the perennial boom of fortune and paradise seekers in this land of tropical paradox.  Employing these materials, and their history, is an attempt to document the present, as well as interconnect the utilitarian and the transcendental. In effect, the source material takes on a new role as a monument, the process a ritual; together they become a meditation as well as harbinger of the Anthropocene. Nick's work has been exhibited extensively throughout south Florida, and he has been awarded numerous grants, including a Wavemaker in 2021, Mulitple MIA awards (2022, 2024), and an AIRIE fellowship in 2017. His first Art in Public Places commission, an installation featuring Dade County pine at the Miami Executive Airport, was completed in 2025.