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Nigel Cooke

Born in Manchester 1973
Lives and works in London

Education

  • 1999 – 2004 PhD in Fine Art, Goldsmith’s College, London
  • 1995 – 1997 MA Painting, Royal College of Art
  • 1991 – 1994 BA (Hons), Fine Art, Nottingham Trent University

Solo Exhibitions

2010
  • Blum & Poe, Los Angeles
  • Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London
2009
  • Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
2008
  • Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London
2007
  • Moderna Museet, Stockholm
2006
  • A Portrait of Everything, South London Gallery, London
  • Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth
  • Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
2005
  • Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London
2004
  • Art Now, Tate Britain, London
  • Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
2002
  • Modern Art, London
2000
  • Nigel Cooke, CHAPMAN Fine ARTS, London

Selected Group Exhibitions

2010
  • Skin Fruit: Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection, curated by Jeff Koons,
    New Museum, New York
  • She Awoke with a Jerk, curated by Nigel Cooke, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
  • The Future Demands Your Participation: Contemporary art from the British Council Collection, organized by the British Council and Minsheng Art Museum in Shanghai
2009
  • We’re Moving, Royal College of Art, Sackler Building, London
2007
  • Effigies, Stuart Shave Modern Art, London
  • The Fractured Figure, Deste Foundation, Athens
  • Dream & Trauma. Works from the Dakis Joannou collection, Athens, in collaboration with MUMOK & Kunsthalle, Vienna
  • Guggenheim Collection: 1940s to Now – New York-Venice-Bilbao-Berlin, National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
  • Imagination Becomes Reality, Museum of Contemporary Art at ZKM, Karlsruhe
  • Fun de Siécle: Symbolism and Contemporary Art, Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal
2006
  • Summer exhibition, Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London
  • Imagination Becomes Reality Part III: Talking Pictures, Sammlung Goetz, Munich
  • New Trajectories I: Relocations, curated from the Ovitz Family Collection, Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College, Portland
  • Sherry and Joel Mallin’s collection, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, New York
2005
  • George Condo and Nigel Cooke, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles
  • Chambres à Part, curated by Laurence Dreyfus, Sezz Hotel, Paris
  • Interested Painting, Gallery 400, University of Illinois, Chicago
  • Strata – Difference And Repetition, Fondazione Davide Halevim, Milan
2004
  • Monument to Now, The Dakis Joannou Collection, Athens
  • Edge of the Real, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
  • Gewalt, Loushy Art & Editions, Tel Aviv
  • Sodium and Asphalt: Contemporary British Art in Mexico, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City
2003
  • Works on Paper, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco
  • I See A Darkness, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles
  • Dirty Pictures, The Approach, London
2002
  • Still Life, The British Council, London
  • Melodrama, ARTIUM, Centro-Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain: travelling to Centro José Guerrero / Palacio de los Condes de Gabia, Granada
2001
  • Tattoo Show, Modern Art, London
  • A Sport & a Pastime, Greene Naftali Inc., New York
2000
  • Homage to the Budokan, Foyles Gallery, London
  • Wooden Heart, Avco, London
1999
  • Glory, British Council Window Gallery, Prague
1998
  • New Contemporaries 98, Camden Arts Gallery, London (Touring)
1997
  • Interesting Painting, City Racing, London

Publications

2010
  • The Future Demands Your Participation, Contemporary Art From The British Council Collection, published by Shanghai People’s Fine Arts Publishing House, Shanghai
2007
  • Traum and Trauma, works from the Dakis Joannou collection, Athens, published by Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern and MUMOK, Vienna
2006
  • Paintings 01-06, Ingvild and Stephan Goetz, Suhail Malik, Darian Leader, published by Koenig Books London
  • Imagination Becomes Reality, Part III, Talking Pictures, pg. 34-55
  • New Art From London, published by Thames & Hudson
2005
  • Transmission: Speaking and listening, volume 4: Provenance, Site Gallery Publishing
2004
  • Monument to Now, exhibition catalogue, Deste Foundation of Contemporary Art
  • Sodium and Asphalt: Contemporary British Art in Mexico, exhibition catalogue, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City
  • Now and Then, Art Now at Tate Britain Catalogue, Text by Martin Herbert
  • Gewalt Catalogue, Loushy Art and Editions
2002
  • Nigel Cooke, Modern Art publication, text by Jake Chapman
  • Still Life, British Council, text by Ann Gallagher
  • Melodrama, exhibition catalogue, Musee de Arte Contemporanea de Vigo
1998
  • New Contemporaries 98, Published by New Contemporaries

Selected Bibliography

2009
  • Time Out New York, Issue 712
  • ArtReview, November, Manifesto, and pp. 74-82
  • Wilson, Michael. Nigel Cooke, Artforum, September, pp. 291-292
2008
  • Jones, Laura K. London Dispatch, Artnet.com Magazine, June 3
  • Ward, Ossian. Failure is an Option, Time Out London, No. 1970, May 22 – May 24, p. 65
  • Milliard, Coline. Welcome to the Rubbish Dump of the Real, Art Review, Issue 22, May, p. 70-79
  • MacDonald, Vici. New Work: Nigel Cooke Q&A, Artworld, Issue 4, April – May, p. 56-61
  • Gleadell, Colin. The new face of Fitzrovia, Daily Telegraph, 22 April, p. 28
  • Canadian Art, Fall, p. 138
  • Lewis, Ben. New Spirit in Painting, The Evening Standard, May 1, p. 42
  • Tate Etc., Issue 14, Autumn, p. 61-72
  • Lack, Jessica. Show Preview, Guardian Guide, 19 April, p. 36
2007
  • Turvey, Lisa. Artforum, Issue XLV, No. 5, January
2006
  • Bourbon, Matthew. Review, Artforum.com, Critics’ Picks, October
  • Granberyy, Michael. Creating What Hasn’t Been Seen, Dallas Morning News, October 21
  • Le Marie, Nicole. Exhibition Review, Modern Painters, June, p. 118
  • Kent, Sarah. Exhibition Review, Time Out London, May 10-17, p. 41
  • Guener, Fisun. Nigel Cooke: A Portrait Of Everything, Metro, April 5
  • Lubbock, Tom. Nightmare Visions, The Independent, p. 46-47, March 3
  • Kunitz, Daniel. All the Painting You Need, Art Review, March
  • Zenakos, Augistine. Dakis Joannou and the Deste Foundation, Contemporary, No. 80, 2006, p. 85-86
2005
  • Nigel Cooke, Art Review, December
  • Honigman, Ana Finel. Nigel Cooke: Modern Art, Art News, October
  • DETaIL, Sleek Magazine, Issue 05
  • Sanders, Mark. Entropic Nowhere, Another Magazine, Spring/Summer
  • Land, Wes. Interview, Tokion Magazine, March
2004
  • Garrett, Craig. Interview, Flash Art, May – June
  • Ribas, Joao. Time Out, New York, Issue 449, May 6
  • Northern Soul, Art Review, April 2004
  • Cumming, Laura. Lost In The Small Print, The Observer, March 2004
  • Sweet, Matthew. Making Plans for Nigel, The Independent Magazine,
  • February 14 p. 24-26
2003
  • Korotkin, Joyce. Exploring Landscape: Eight Views from Britain, The New York Art World.com, March
  • Wilson, Michael. Exploring Landscape: Eight Views from Britain, Art Monthly, March
  • Williams, Gilda. Dirty Pictures, Art Monthly, March
  • Rosenberg, Karen. Landscape, Secondhand and Otherwise…, Village Voice, 12-18 February
  • Knight, Christopher. On the Underbelly of the Zeitgeist, Los Angeles Times, 21 February
  • Smith, Roberta. Exploring Landscape, The New York Times, Influence Magazine, Issue 1, February 14
2002
  • Schwabsky, Barry. Nigel Cooke, ARTFORUM, May
  • Coomer, Martin. Nigel Cooke, Time Out, April 10-17
  • Ratnam, Niru. Bring Out The Chimp, The Face, April
  • Quirk, Justin. Adolf 4 Eva: Another Art Controversy, i-D Magazine, April
  • Summers, Francis. Big Scary Flashes of Perversity, Sleaze Nation, April
  • de Ville, Nick. Entropy’s Cold Desert, Contemporary Art Magazine, March, p. 18-23
  • Seymour, Benedict. When Worlds Collide, Frieze, March, p. 74-75
2001
  • Testino, Dutch Magazine, July/August
2000
  • Coxhead, Gabriel. Exhibit E: Nigel Cooke, Dazed and Confused, December
  • Gleeson, David. Reviews, Time Out, 6-13 December
  • Fallon, James. W magazine, December
  • Hubbard, Sue. And Wilde Desires, March
1999
  • New Kids Explore Old Angst, The Times, August 18
1998
  • Sewell, Brian. How Dare They Spend Our Cash on This, Evening Standard, August 13
  • Cork, Richard. New Kids Explore Old Angst, New Contemporaries, The Times, March
1997
  • Clark, Robert. Laddy in the Lake, The Guardian, July

Collections

 
  • British Council, London
  • Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton
  • Tate Gallery, London
  • Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Oslo
  • Dakis Joannou Collection Foundation, Athens
  • Moderna Museet, Stockholm
  • François Pinault Collection, Paris
  • Sammlung Goetz, Munich
  • Queensland Art Gallery, Queensland
  • Honart Museum, Tehran
  • Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas
  • Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
  • Museum of Modern Art, New York
  • Rachofsky Collection, Dallas
  • Rubell Family Collection, Miami
  • Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
  • UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles