# #527 Nick Doyle (Artist) | The American artist cutting up the myth of America

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Podcast: [TheBoldWay](https://stenobird.com/podcast/theboldway-329028)
Published: 2026-05-15T03:01:00+00:00
Episode link: https://audio.audiomeans.fr/file/nTLjBrCvPC/826e41e5-6a07-4530-a8fa-e76f4354b6a1.mp3?_=1778675898
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🎙️ Sponsors du mois🌐 Squarespace — la plateforme no-code, boostée par l’IA, pour créer et développer votre site web tout-en-un.🛡️ MAIF — Épisode Assurance & indépendants : les erreurs qui peuvent vous coûter cher | En partenariat avec la MAIF. — Thanks to Nick for stopping by TheBoldWay! Nick Doyle is an American artist whose primary material is denim, which he cuts, bleaches, and assembles like contemporary marquetry. Represented worldwide by Perrotin gallery, he made a splash with Human Resources, a "corporate" kink bar premiered at Perrotin Paris, which returns this June at Basel Social Club. He's joining us for his new show at Perrotin New York, running April 24 through May 30, where he unveils Oracle Ava 113 — an AI avatar offering psychic readings to visitors, alongside a new series of batik-treated landscapes. Through denim, Nick unpacks America's foundational myths: rugged masculinity, the dream of Western expansion, and the slave-owning past that the textile industry has so carefully erased. A clear-eyed, unvarnished conversation about what it means, today, to be American.Timeline02:30 — The name and the calling: why Matthew renamed himself Nick at six (after the TV show Nickelodeon), and why he knew at seven or eight he'd be an artist 09:00 — Roots and Los Angeles: a Republican lawyer-musician father, a Democrat screenwriter-mime mother, the family "Nietzsche consensus," and how Hollywood's mediated reality shaped his sense of American identity 14:00 — New York, 2006: arriving at 26, turning down the unpaid Murakami internship for a $12/hour job, and seven years inside Tom Sachs's studio learning sculpture from the shop floor 24:00 — The art world and self-confidence: there is no destination, the artist generates their own reality, the mirror exercise ("H…

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