Nick Polansky (b. 1984, Fairfax, CA) is an artist and architect based in San Francisco whose practice navigates the friction between art and design. His work explores the tension between conceptual expression and the rigorous constraints of material fabrication, a focus established during his studies in Studio Art at UC Berkeley and the Art, Culture, and Technology program at MIT, where he received degrees in architecture.
He refined his expertise in digital fabrication and material precision during his artist residency at Autodesk and through residencies at Art Letters and Numbers in New York and Marin Metal Works in Sausalito, CA. Polansky currently splits his time between a woodshop in the woods of Fairfax and his storefront studio in San Francisco's Mission District.