Biography
Mike Nelson (b 1967, Loughborough, UK) studied BA Fine Art at Reading University, 1986-1990 and attended Chelsea College of Art and Design 1992-1993 receiving an MA in Sculpture. He was shorlisted for the Turner Prize in 2001 and has received a second nomination in 2007 to be presented at Tate Liverpool October 2007. In 1996-1997 he completed a fellowship at Berwick Gymnasium Fellow, was a Sculpture Research Fellow at Edinburgh College of Art 1998-2001, and was a recipient of The Paul Hamlyn Artist Award in 2000. Nelson has been creating architectural environments and large-scale installations for more than a decade, which includes his seminal work The Coral Reef at Matt’s Gallery (2000). He has exhibited extensively both nationally and internationally with solo exhibitions and commissions including Nothing is True. Everything is Permitted at the Institute of Contemporary Art, London (2001), The Deliverance and The Patience, Venice Biennale off-site project at The Old Brewery, Giudecca, Venice (2001), Triple Bluff Canyon, Modern Art Oxford (2004), Studio apparatus for MAMCO, MAMCO, Geneva (2005), After Kerouac, Centre d’Art Santa Monica, Barcelona (2006), Lonely Planet ACCA, Melbourne, Australia (2006). He received his 2007 Turner Prize nomination for AMNESIAC SHRINE or Double coop displacement commissioned by Matt’s Gallery and Mirror Infill commissioned by Frieze Projects (2006). A PSYCHIC VACUUM is Nelson’s recent major commission from Creative Time, New York. Nelson has also exhibited at international art fairs and Biennales including Sydney Biennale 2003, XXVI Bienal de Sao Paolo 2004 and Basle Art Fair Switzerland 2007. Mike Nelson lives and works in London and is represented by Matt’s Gallery, London and Galleria Franco Noero, Torino.

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