Drew Nikonowicz (born in St. Louis Missouri, 1993) earned a BFA degree from the University of Missouri - Columbia in 2016. His work employs analog photographic processes as well as computer simulations to deal with landscape and exploration in contemporary photography. He has exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Rome, the Armory Show in New York, and the Neue Galerie in Höhmannhaus Germany. In 2015 he received the Aperture Portfolio Prize and the Lenscratch Student Prize. Nikonowicz is currently a resident artist at Fabrica Research Centre in Treviso Italy.