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NATHANIEL MELLORS
Born. 1974, England
Lives and works in Los Angeles.
Education
2007-2008 Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, NL
1999-2001 Royal College of Art, MA (Sculpture), London, GB
1996-1999 The Ruskin School of Drawing & Fine Art, Oxford University, Oxford, GB
Residencies
2014 Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, US
2007 Production Residency, ArtSway, Sway, Hampshire, GB
2006-2007 Berwick Gymnasium Fellowship, Berwick-Upon-Tweed, GB
2002-2003 Grizedale Arts Production Residency, Ambleside, GB
Awards
2014 Contemporary Art Society Annual Award
Solo exhibitions
2019 Our House, I.C.A., London, UK.
2018 Stigter Van Doesburg, Amsterdam, NL
2018 Nathaniel Mellors, New Museum, New York, US
2017 The Aalto Natives by Nathaniel Mellors & Erkka Nissinen, Cobra Museum, Amstelveen, NL, Kiasma Museum, Helsinki FIN
2017 Monitor, Rome, IT
2017 57th Venice Biennale, Finnish Pavillion with Erkka Nissinen, curated by Xander Karskens
2016 Prequel Dump, The Box, Los Angeles, US
2014 The Sophisticated Neanderthal Interview, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin, IE
2014 New Cave Art Now, Stigter Van Doesburg, Amsterdam, NL
2014 The Sophisticated Neanderthal, Art:Concept, Paris, FR
2014 Nathaniel Mellors, Hammer Projects, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, US
2013 Nathaniel Mellors and Jimmy Roe Roche, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, US
2013 Video Room-Nathaniel Mellors and Erkka Nissinen, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, NL
2012 Recent collaboration before THE SAPROPHAGE, Monitor, Rome, IT
2012 Ourhouse, Episode 3 feat. BAD COPY, Salle de Bains, Lyon, FR
2012 Ourhouse, Episode 3. BAD COPY, Matt's Gallery, London, GB
2012 Ourhouse, Episode 3 – The Cure of Folly, Malmo Konsthall, Malmo, SE.
2011 The Nest, Cobra Museum, Amstelveen, NL
2011 Hypercolon, Smart Project Space Amsterdam, NL
2011 Our House, I.C.A., London, GB
2010 Our House, De Hallen, Haarlem, NL
2010 The 7 Ages of Britain Teaser, Kiasma, Helsinki, FI
2010 The 7 Ages of Britain Teaser, MONITOR, Rome, IT
2009 Giantbum, Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam, NL
2009 Giantbum, Lombard – Freid Projects, New York, US
2009 The Time Surgeon, South London Gallery, GB
2007 The Time Surgeon, ArtSway, Sway, Hampshire, GB
2006 Hateball, Alison Jacques Gallery, London, UGB
2005 Nathaniel Mellors / Maaike Schoorel, Ibid Projects, Vilnius, LT
2005 Hateball, The Collective, Edinburgh, GB
2005 Brain One / Mózg Jeden, Galeria Potocka, Krakow, GB
2005 The Pink Mist, Playstation, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, GB
2004 Profondo Viola, Matt’s Gallery, London, GB
2003 Prince Lightning – The Long Scratch, Touring: The Changing Room, Stirling, GB and Turnpike Gallery, Leigh, The Brewery, Kendal, GB
2002 IBID Projects, London (with Dan Perjovschi), GB
2001 Black Gold, Matt’s Gallery, London, GB
Group exhibitions
2016 Nothing happens twice: Artists explore the absurdity of life, Harris Museum, Preston, UK
2014 Taipei Biennial, TW
2014 How Soon is Now? Manifesta Foundation, Amsterdam, NL
2014 Alter-Heroes, MAC USP (Sap Paulo Contemporary Museum), Sao Paulo, BR
2014 Magnus - Scènes de l'imaginaire automate, Villa Bernasconi, Geneva, CH
2014 Impakt Festival, Utrecht, NL
2014 Weberwoche, Stroom, The Hague, NL
2013 The Long Leash, The Ister, Brussels, BE
2012 Radical Languages Cricoteka, Krakow, PO
2011 Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space, Prague, CZ
2011 ILLUMInations, Venice Biennale, Venice, IT
2011 Un ‘Espressione Geografica, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudegno, Torino, IT
2010-2011 British Art Show, Hayward Gallery, London & UK touring.
2009 Recent Acquisitions, De Hallen, Haarlem, NL
2009 Contour 2009, 4th Biennial of Moving Image, Mechelen, BE
2009 Art & Research 2008, Montehermoso, Vitoria-Gasteiz, ES
2009 The Time Surgeon, ArtSway’s New Forest Pavilion, Venice Biennale, IT
2009 Altermodern, Tate Triennial 2009, Tate Britain, GB
2009 Out of Line, Lombard-Freid Projects, New York, US
2008 Art Now, Tate Britain (curated by Ryan Gander), GB
2008 Deep Screen - Art in Digital Culture: Proposal for Municipal Acquisition 08, Stedelijk Museum CS (SMCS), Amsterdam, NL
2008 Agrifashionistas, Grizedale Arts / A Foundation, Rochelle School, London, GB
2007 Expect Nothing, Gallery for One, Dublin, IE
2007 Open 2007, Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, NL
2007 00s THE HISTORY OF A DECADE THAT HAS NOT yet BEEN NAMED, Biennale de Lyon, FR
2007 The Present Order is the Disorder of the Future, De Hallen Haarlem, NL
2007 Design for Living, Initial Access, Wolverhampton, GB
2007 The Return of the Seven Samurai, Galerie Lucy Mackintosh, Lausanne, CH.
2007 Final Exhibition at 4 Clifford Street, Alison Jacques Gallery, London, GB
2007 The Scandinavian Underground...here...now, De Praktijk, Amsterdam, NL
2006 Minotaur Blood, Jonathan Vyner / Fortescue Avenue, London, GB
2006 Tokyo Rambo, Virtually Grizedale, A Foundation, Liverpool Biennial (screening), GB
2006 Sculpture Garden, Phoenix Garden, London, GB
2005 Encore, Byuk Londra Oteli, Istanbul Biennial, TR
2005 If You’re Feeling Sinister Alona Kagan, New York, US
2005 Offside, Dublin Municipal Gallery The Hugh Lane, Dublin, IE
2004 Romantic Detachment, PS1, New York, US
2004 Trailer, Man in the Holocene, London, GB
2004 Distribution Fair (with Junior Aspirin Records), Cubitt Gallery, London, GB
2004 No-How, The Collective, Edinburgh, GB
2003 Pod War (The Landscape Critics), Leave The Capitol: Frieze Art, London, GB
2003 Fair Film and Video Programme, London, GB
2003 We’ll Meet You In The Lobby, Buyuk Londra Oteli, Istanbul, TR.
2003 Someplace Unreachable, IBID Projects, London, GB
2003 Spiritual Hunger, Daniel Silverstein, New York, US
2003 Senso Unico. Italia Telecom Future Centre, Venice, IT
2003 Bootleg, Spitalfields Market, London, GB
2003 Roadshow, Touring: Grizedale Arts and Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, GB
2003 Blennau Festinniog, Wales, Lickey Hills, Birmingham, D.J.C.A.D., Dundee, GB.
2002 Lets Roll, Apex Arts, New York, US
2002 Junior Aspirin Promotional Video, Galerie Diana Stigter, Amsterdam, NL
2002 Band in Crisis, Cooper Gallery, D.J.C.A.D., Dundee (with Skill 7 Stamina 12), GB
2002 It Rocks But Gently, Folly Gallery, Lancaster, GB
2001 An Elephant Station, Vilma Gold Gallery, London, GB
2001 MA Degree Show, Royal College of Art Sculpture School, London, GB
2001 Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2000, Milton Keynes Gallery; Cornerhouse, Manchester; Inverleith House, Edinburgh, GB
2000 Additional Research Into the Phenomenon, Glasgow Project Room, GB
1999 New Contemporaries ’99, Exchange Flags Building, Liverpool, GB
1999 Biennial of Contemporary Art; South London GalleryWe Are Safe and Well, 4 Elephant Lane, London, GB
1998 Sometimes Love Just Ain’t Enough, Custard Factory, Birmingham, GB
Performances
2011 Performa Biennial 2011, New York, US
2010 Fun Place (with Junior Aspirin Recors), Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR
2010 MEGACOLON / For & Against Language, L’Escole de Stephanie, K.W. Institute, Berlin, DE
2009 Volatile Dispersal, Whitechapel Gallery, London, GB
2008 The Ill-Tempered Manifesto, Manifesto Marathon, Serpentine Gallery, London (curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist), GB
2008 Nought to Sixty, I.C.A., London (Junior Aspirin Records performance), GB
2006 OHR, Virtually Grizedale, A Foundation, Liverpool Biennial, GB
2006 Tokyo Rambo, Tokyo- Ikebukuro Festival of International Art (Grizedale Arts), JP
2006 Mysterius Horse, Itchy Park, London (with Dan Fox), GB
2004 The Landscape Critics Limp, Modern Art Oxford (with AshleyMarlowe), GB