Nigel Cooke - Biography

Born in Manchester, 1973
Lives & 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

2009
Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY, April 24 - May 30

2008
Stuart Shave / Modern Art, London, England, "New Accursed Art Club", April 25 - May 25

2007
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden, June 1 - July 15

2006
Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY, "Dead Painter," November 10 - December 9
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas, "Focus: Nigel Cooke," October 22 - November 26
South London Gallery, London, England, "A Portrait of Everything," March 30 - May 14 (catalogue)

2005
Modern Art, London, June 2 to July 3

2004
Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, April 9 to May 15
Art Now, Tate Britain, London, February 6 to March 28

2002
Modern Art, London, March 8 to April 21

2000
'Nigel Cooke', CHAPMAN Fine ARTS, London, November 17 to December 20

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2005
Nigel Cooke and George Condo, Blum and Poe, Los Angeles, October 15 to December 3
"Strata - Difference and Repitition", Fondazione Davide Halevim, Milan, May 27 - July 2
"interested painting", Gallery 400, University of Illinois at Chicago, February 8 to March 19

2004
'Gewalt', Loushy Art and Editions, Tel Aviv
"Sodium and Asphalt: Contemporary British Art in Mexico", Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, July 8 to October 3, 2004; Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey, October 21 to February 2005

2003
"4ever Young", Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, October 23 to November 25
'Frass', Gold Bullion Vaults, 122 Leadenhall Street, London
'Group Exhibition - Painting', Gallery Sommer, Tel Aviv
'Works on Paper', Jack Hanley Gallery, San Fransisco
'I See A Darkness', Blum and Poe, Los Angeles
'Dirty Pictures,' The Approach, London
"Exploring Landscape; Eight Views from Britain", Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, January 24 to February 22

2002
'Still Life', The British Council, Touring Exhibition Museo de Bellas Artes, Santiago Chile, Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango, Bogota, Colombia, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo., Panama City, Panama, Museo de Arte Moderno, Guatemala,MAC Nieroi, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, SESI, Sao Paulo, Brazil
'Melodrama', ARTIUM, Centro-Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain, April 26 to September 22: travelling to Centro José Guerrero / Palacio de los Condes de Gabia in Granada

2001
Tattoo Show, Modern Art, London, July 7 to August 12

2001
'A Sport and a Pastime', Greene Naftali Inc., New York, June 14 to July 14

2000
'Homage to Budokan', Foyles Gallery, London

2000
'Wooden Heart', Avco, London

1999
'Glory', British Council Window Gallery, Prague

1998
'New Contemporaries 98', Camden Arts Gallery, London (touring) (catalogue)

1997
'Interesting Painting', City Racing, London