About
My name is Nils Krueger.
I am an artist and educator, as well as a mentor and coach, who helps artists to reach their full potential in regards to their art and their career.
Born in Berlin in 1969, I moved to San Francisco in 1988 for what was initially planned as a 1-year student exchange. Little did I know at the time that I was going to stay there for 23 years.
I enrolled in art school in 1990 to study graphic design. During the first few semesters I took some painting and sculpture classes, and so it happened that I discovered a love for sculpture early on during my studies and changed majors in order to fully focus on studying fine art.
I found that welded metal sculpture offered a very direct way for creating durable form in a light yet structural approach.
During my BFA studies, I developed my technique of describing a volume with thin lines, much like computer generated 3D wireframe models do.
Shortly after earning my Master’s degree, some of my sculptures were used as a stage set for the "Imagination Conference", featuring Brian Eno and Laurie Anderson.
This led to me being nominated for the SECA award, a contemporary art award program organized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
I continued to exhibit my work throughout the US and Europe. My sculptures were shown at the James A. Michener Art Museum in Doylestown, PA, the Bellevue Museum of Art in Bellevue, WA, and at several galleries, such as the LH Horton Jr. Gallery at the San Joaquin Delta College in Stockton, CA, Brandt-Schneider Contemporary Art in St. Helena, CA, B. Haasner Galerie in Wiesbaden, Germany, as well as at Terrain Gallery, Ortega Art, SomARTS Gallery, Patrons of Art Gallery and the AAU Sculpture Center, which are all located in San Francisco, CA.
In 2000, I was offered a teaching position at AAU, where I taught on campus until 2011 and still teach online courses to this day. Aside from teaching and building online courses, I have been deeply involved in their graduate program, where I have helped students to develop their thesis proposals, and have guided them to create a professional and cohesive body of work.
Based on my experience in the art world, the University asked me to develop a Professional Practices for Fine Artists course in 2006. Since then, I have helped hundreds of painting, sculpture, jewelry and photography students to develop professional PR materials, such as an artist statement, a resume and a professional biography, as well as business cards, postcards, a website and a print-on-demand portfolio book, in order for them to market themselves and their work on a fully professional level.
Since moving to Munich, Germany in 2011, I have continued to teach online courses at AAU. My over two decades long involvement in teaching, as well as in the graduate midpoint and final review process, have trained me to quickly assess art work in order to give constructive feedback in regards to not only the artist’s ability and craftsmanship, but also the effectiveness of communicating his or her ideas through a given medium.
Since I truly enjoy helping artists to be the best artist they can be, and to market and sell their work in order to earn a living through their passion of creating art, I decided to offer my art marketing and artist coaching services to a broader audience in 2016.
Please feel free to contact me if you want to get some feedback on your work, or you'd like to take your career to the next level. I look forward to getting a chance to assist you in your journey of becoming the best artist you can be, as well as in reaching your financial and career goals.
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