>Mike Nelson
Artist
Mike Nelson is an artist, born in Loughborough in 1967. He studied at Reading University from 1986 to 1990 and Chelsea College of Art and Design between 1992 and 1993. Nelson creates large-scale architectural installations, transforming existing spaces with meticulous constructions made from found objects. He fuses an encyclopedic range of references into three-dimensional narratives that rely on the viewer's involvement to continue or complete the scene. In 2001 he was shortlisted for the Turner Prize.
Mike Nelson is represented by Matt's gallery, London.
Selected Exhibitions
'John Frumism', Hotel Gallery, London, 2006
'Mike Nelson- After Kerouac', Centre d'Art Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain, 2006
'Monuments to the USA', CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA, 2005
'Mike Nelson- Humpty Dumpty, Mamco', Musee d'Art Moderne et Contemprain, Geneva, 2005
'XXVI Bienal de Sao Paolo, Sao Paolo, Brazil, 2004
'Triple Bluff Canyon', Modern Art Oxford, 2004
'Capp Street project: 20th Anniversary Exhibition, CCAC Wattis Institute of Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, 2003
The Turner Prize Exhibition, Tate gallery, London, 2001
'Nothing is True, Everything is Permitted' ICA, London, 2001
The British Art Show 5, National Touring Exhibitions for Hayward Gallery, London (multiple venues in Edinburgh, Southampton, Cardiff, Birmingham), 2000.
'The Coral Reef', Matt's Gallery, London, 2000
'To The Memory of H.P. Lovecraft', Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, 1999
'Tourist Hotel', Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, 1999
'Master of Reality', Berwick Gymnasium Gallery, Berwick-upon-Tweed, 1997
'Trading Station AlphaCMa', Matt's Gallery, London, 1996
'Charity Shop', Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, 1994
Selected Awards and Residencies
Paul Hamlyn Award, 2001
Research Fellow, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, 1998-2001