Nathan Coley
Type | Male Artist |
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URLs | Artist's page Wikipedia Other Interview Review National Galleries Scotland |
Exhibitions | |||||
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Solo exhibition | 2019 | The Future Is Inside Us, Its Not Somewhere Else | Parliament Hall, Edinburgh Art Festival | Edinburgh, UK | |
Group exhibition | 2019 | Beyond The Road | Saatchi Gallery | London, England | |
Solo exhibition | 2017 | Nathan Coley | Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art | Edinburgh, UK | |
Group exhibition | 2015 | Devils in the Making: Glasgow School of Art & The Collection | Gallery of Modern Art | Glasgow, UK | |
Group exhibition | 2014 | You Imagine What You Desire | 19th Biennale of Sydney | Sydney, Australia | |
Solo exhibition | 2012 | Knowledge, Kindliness and Courage | Contemporary Art Gallery | Vancouver, Canada | |
Group exhibition | 2012 | Miracles, Art, Science, Religion | Kunsthalle Krems | Krems, Austria | |
Solo exhibition | 2009 | Nathan Coley | Bergen Kunsthall | Bergen, Norway | |
Group exhibition | 2009 | Nuite Blanche | Paris, France | ||
Group exhibition | 2007 | The Turner Prize | Tate Liverpool | Liverpool, England | |
Solo exhibition | 2003 | Black Tent | Portsmouth Cathedral | Portsmouth, England | |
Group exhibition | 2001 | Circles 3 | ZKM | Karlsruhe, Germany | |
Solo exhibition | 1996 | Nathan Coley | Galleri Index | Stockholm, Sweden | |
Solo exhibition | There Will Be No Miracles Here | National Galleries of Scotland | Edinburgh, UK |
Artworks in Collections | |||
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The Van Abbemuseum Collection | Eindhoven | 21896 | A place beyond belief |
Publications | ||||||||||||
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Monograph | 2014 | Hatje Cantz Verlag | Nathan Coley | Lisa Le Feuvre, Brian Dillon, Tom Hunt, Caroline Käding, Tanja Karreman, Rory Mitchell, Andrea Schlieker u.a. | 978-3-7757-3675-6 | Berlin | ||||||
Monograph | 2011 | There Will be No Miracles Here | Nathan Coley | 978-1899377213 | Locus + | |||||||
Monograph | 2006 | Mount Stuart | Nathan Coley | Andrea Schlieker, Nathan Coley, Keith Hunter | Rothesay | Andrew McLean, Sophie Crichton Stuart, Anthony Crichton Stuart |
Awards
London, England
Shortlist Turner Prize
Education
Glasgow, Scotland
Glasgow School of Art
Born
Glasgow, Scotland
Nathan Coley, who was born in 1967 in Glasgow, sculpts words and phrases out of light – but, very particularly, he uses old light bulbs and scaffolding to create a nostalgic, fairground aesthetic, eschewing neon and its advertorial connotations. Although he accepts full responsibility as the author of the work, the words come from all manner of sources, and, in the varying contexts in which the ensuing works are shown, they gain all manner of meanings, some universal, some unique to the individual viewer.
Coley’s works explore architecture and religion, although he is more interested in what is built by whom and where and why than the building itself. Likewise, he holds no formal faith.
https://www.studiointernational.com/index.php/nathan-coley-interview-bruges-triennial-im-the-travelling-storyteller (26.11.2020)
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A Place Beyond Belief | 2013 | Nathan Coley | |
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You Imagine What You Desire | 2015 | Nathan Coley | |