John Nixon (Australian, 1949)

JOHN NIXON

Biography

1949

Born Sydney, Australia

1973

First Solo Exhibition, Pinacotheca, Melbourne, Australia

1978

First European solo exhibition: Barry Barker Inc. London, England

2000

Lives in Sydney, Australia and travels

Awards

1975

Awarded Travel Grant from the Visual Arts Board, Australia Council

1976

Special Projects Grant from the Visual Arts Board, Australia, Council

1977

Special Projects Grant from the Visual Arts Board, Australia Council

1979

Special Projects Grant from the Theatre Board, Australia Council

Artists Tram, Victorian Ministry for the Arts

1984

Half Standard Grant from the Visual Arts Board, Australia Council

1988

Artist in Residence, Villa Arson, Nice. (French/Australian Artists Exchange)

1990

Fellowship Grant from the Visual Arts/Crafts Board, Australia Council

1994

Quick Response Scheme, Visual Arts/Crafts Board, Australia Council

1999

Clemenger Contemporary Art Award, National Gallery of Victoria and Museum of Modern Art at
Heide

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2004

EPW 2004, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne

2003

EPW : ORANGE, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne

2002

Galerie Mark Müller, Zurich, Switzerland

Espace d’Art Contemporain, Demigny, France

Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand

Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney

Zero, l’infini, Paris, France

2001

Gerber / Nixon, Australian Embassy, Tokyo, Japan

Piero Manzoni John Nixon, Daimlerchrysler Contemporary, Berlin, Germany

Goddard de Fiddes Gallery, Perth

Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne

Lars Möller Witt, Arhus, Denmark

Galerie Soren Houmann, Copenhagen, Denmark

Piero Manzoni John Nixon, Stiftung fur Konkrete Kunst, Reutlingen, Germany

Kunsthaus Baselland, Muttenz, Basel, Switzerland

Galerie Evelyne Canus, Paris, France

Stiftung fur Konkrete Kunst, Reutlingen, Germany

A painting and a sculpture, 1st Floor artists and writers space, Melbourne (John Nixon / Martin

Creed) Kunsthaus Baselland, Muttenz, Basel, Switzerland

2000

EPW: Orange, Biennale of Sydney affiliated exhibition, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney

Solver, Base/Progetti per l’Arte, Florence (with Marco Fuisinato)

EPW: Orange, Stadtlisches Kunstmuseum, Singen, Germany

Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch, NZ (with Stephen Bambury)

Galerie Soren Houman, Copenhagen, Denmark

1999

EPW: Orange, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney

EPW: Orange, Galleri Soren Houmann, Copenhagen

EPW:Orange, PS, Amsterdam

EPW: Orange, Goddard de Fides Contemporary Art, Perth

EPW: Orange, A Selection, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne

PS, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Albertslund Radhus, Copenhagen, Denmark

Music 1979-1999, Kunstlerhaus Bethanian, Berlin

David Pestorius Gallery, Berlin

Site, Dusseldorf, Germany

Centre for Contemporary Non-Objective Art, Brussels

The Box, Turin

Milan Mrkusich/John Nixon: Eight paintings 1968-1998, Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington (with
Milan Mrkusich)

1998

Galerie Y-Burg Vrieshuis Amerika, Amsterdam

Kunstmuseum Esbjerg, Esbjerg, Denmark

Galerie Mark Muller, Zurich

someone else’s studio, Brisbane

Goddard/de Fiddes, Perth Australia

1997

Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington

Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney

David Pestorius Gallery, Brisbane

John Nixon: EP+OW, Experimental painting and object workshop, 1988-1997, City Gallery,
Wellington; Dunedin Public Art Gallery

Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne

Laure Genillard Gallery, London (with Julian Dashper)

Rm. 3 Auckland New Zealand

1996

Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington

Galerie Dessford Vogel, Dunedin

Evelyne Canus Art Contemporian, La Colle Sur Loup, France

Project, Haus des Kunst, Munich

Petra Bungert Gallery, New York

EPW 1985-1996, Goddard/de Fiddes Contemporary Art, Perth

Köstring/Maier, Munich, Germany (with Daniel Gottin)

Selected Works 1978-1995, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney

EPW: 1979–1996, Anna Schwartz, Melbourne

Selected Solo Exhibitions – continued

1996

Adelaide Festival, Adelaide

Tidsrum Maleri, Copenhagen

1995

Galerie Renos Xippas, Paris

Köstring/Maier, Munich

Panzahalle, Reutlingen

EPW : Monochrome 1968-1996, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra

Residence No. 7, Amsterdam

CBD Gallery, Sydney

Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen

Stelling Gallery, Leiden, The Netherlands

Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne

Kunstraum G7, Mannheim, Germany

FriArt Centre d’Art Contemporain/Kunsthalle, Fribourg, Switzerland

Galerie Mark Müller, Zurich

Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington

Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney

Brent Sikkema & Wooster Gardens, New York

Star Projects De Graansiilo, Amsterdam

Star Projects De Etalage, Haarlem, The Netherlands

Block Paintings 1968-70 & 1992-94, David Pestorius Gallery, Brisbane

1994

Selected works 1968-1993, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia

Stiftung für Konkrete Kunst, Reutlingen, Germany

Galerie Ingrid Dacic, Tubingen, Germany

Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney

Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne (collaboration with Mike Parr)

CBD Gallery, Sydney

Artspace, Sydney (with Lindy Lee)

Galerie Sophia Ungers, Cologne

Copyright Edition Tutti, Verduno, Italy (with Ian Anüll)

Muse Cantonal des beaux Arts, Sion, Switzerland

Block Paintings 1968-1970/1992-1994, Art & Public, Geneva

David Pestorius Gallery, Brisbane

Selected Group Exhibitions

2005

Store 5 is, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne

2004

Before Night - After Nature, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne

Wild Thang!, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

2003

Breaking the Charmed Circle, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Los Angeles

ARCO, Goddard de Fiddes Gallery, Madrid

The Daimler Chrysler Collection, Museum für Neure Kunst Zkm Karlsruhe, G2ermany

Selected Group Exhibitions – continued

2002

Veczoennections: Contemporary Artists from Australia, House of Croatian Artists, Zagreb (curator
Branka Stipancic)

Minimalist + After, Daimler Chrysler Contemporary, Berlin, Germany

Fieldwork: Australian Art 1968-2002, The Ian Potter Centre, National Gallery of Victoria,

Melbourne

2 Step, Centre for Contemporary Non-objective Art, Brussels, Belgium

Abstract, Galerie Evelyne Camus, Basle, Switzerland

Objet Non Identifie, Hans Trudel-Haus Galerie, Baden, Switzerland

Amplified Abstraction, Chapel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2001

EPW: ORANGE, Kunsthaus Baselland, Muttenz, Basle, Switzerland

Fusinato, Nixon, Jenkins, PS, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

New Zero, Piero Manzoni, John Nixon, Daimler Chrysler Contemporary, Berlin, Germany

John Nixon, Jan van der Ploeg, Heimo Zobernig, Galerie Heimer und Partner, Berlin, Germany

2000

Spitting and Biting, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne

Art ‘31, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Basel Art Fair, Basel

Intercourse, Untitled venue, Toronto

Avant-gardism for children, University Art Museum, University of Queensland, Brisbane; Monash
University Gallery, Melbourne

Scratch, Galerie Soren Houmann, Copenhagen

Pink, Parel, Amsterdam

From Rags to Riches, Fondation de la Tapisseries des Arts, Tournai, Belgium

PS1999, Archipel Apeldoorn, The Netherlands

ARCO art fair, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Madrid

Pressed, Obscura, Sydney

Silver & Shining, The Box, Turin

Floor Show, Den Frei, Copenhagen

Spin Me Round, Metro Arts, Brisbane

1999

On Painting, Sydney College of the Arts Gallery, Sydney

Circle Records, Artspace, Sydney

Home and Away: Contemporary Australian and New Zealand art from the Chartwell Collection,
Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland; Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth; Waikato Museum of
Art and History, Hamilton; Manawatu Art Gallery, Palmerston North; City Gallery, Wellington;

Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin

1999 Clemenger Award, Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Melbourne

The Box, Brussels Art Fair, Brussels, Belgium

Sarah Cottier Gallery, Basel Art Fair, Basel

Fusinato, Jenkins, Nixon, Project 11, Sydney

Galerie Soren Houmann, Copenhagen Art Fair, Copenhagen

Deconstructivism: Life Back Into Art, Southbank Corporation, Brisbane

Hard Edge, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Exploratory Behaviour, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Small Works, Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland

Group Show, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney

1999 National Works on Paper, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Melbourne

Selected Group Exhibitions – continued

1999

Pluk, Albertslund Radhus, Copenhagen

1998

Opening Exhibition, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney

Geometric Painting in Australia 1941-1997, University Art Museum, University of Queensland,
Brisbane Museum, Brisbane, Australia

Paintings II, CASC Contemporary Art, Haarlem, Netherlands

Galerie Mark Muller, Stockholm Art Fair, Stockholm, Sweden

True Colours, Sydney College of the Arts Gallery and CBD Gallery, Sydney

The Bridge: Construction in Process VI, Melbourne

Talking Pictures, Glen Eira Arts Complex Gallery, Melbourne

Fruhlingserwachen, Celeste & Eliot, Zurich

Ladies & Gentlemen, Cameron House, Brisbane

1997

Miller, Nixon, Westerwinter, Achim Kubinski Stuttgart; Köstring/Maier, Munich, Germany; Galerie
Lisi Hammerle, Bregenz, Austria

Galerie Lisi Hammerte, Editions of Art, Innsbruck, Austria

Fort! Da! Cooperations Staatsgalerie/Villa Merkel, Stuttgart

Crossways: works on paper by 16 American & European artists, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst,
Antwerp; Kunstforeningen, Copehagen; Musee des Beaux Arts, La Chars-des- Fonds, Switzerland

On Dialogue, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, Germany

Abstract/Abstract, The Honeymoon Suite, Dunedin

Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington

Dead Sun, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

David Pestorius Gallery, Berlin Art Fair, Berlin

non-declarative colour?, David Pestorius Gallery, Brisbane

Objects and Ideas: Revisiting Minimalism, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

j’aime toutes les couleurs parce que mon ame est obscure, Espace d’Art Contemporain Agi
Schoningh, Demigny, France

Evelyn Canus Art Contemporain FIAC Art Fair, Paris

Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney

Sarah Cottier Gallery, Galerie Mark Müller, Art 28:97 Basel Art Fair, Basel

1996

Sarah Cottier Gallery, Galerie Mark Müller, Galerie Renos Xippas, Art 27:96 Basel Art Fair, Basel

Bonde, Carstensen, Donaldson, Nixon, Artspace, Sydney

1912-1996 Collection Die Konkrete Zeit, Stiftung für Konkrete Kunst, Reutlingen

Galerie Mark Muller, Berlin Art Fair, Germany

Spirit + Place: Art in Australia 1861-1996, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

On the Corner, Tidsrum Maleri, Copenhagen

Trois Collectons d’artists: Disler, Forg, Mosset, Musee des Beaux Arts la chaux de Fonds, France

Halle 1, Neumarketerstrasse MunichGermany

Kulturzeichen Kreuz, Diotesan Museum Regensburg, Germany

The Pool, David Pestorius Gallery , Brisbane

Unpainting, David Pestorius Gallery , Brisbane

Ecarts et Carres, Palais Episcopal, Uzes, France

Galerie Lisi Hammerle, Vienna Art Fair, Vienna

Neuerwerbunger fur die Graphische Sammlung 1992-1996, Villa Merkel, Esslingen, Germany

Geelong Contemporary Art Prize, Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong, Australia

Selected Group Exhibitions – continued

1996

Raindrops on Roses, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney

Group Show, Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland

Group Show, Galerie Patrick Roy, Lausanne, Switzerland

Galerie Sophia Ungers, FIAC Art Fair, Paris

1995

Sarah Cottier Gallery, Galerie Mark Müller, Art & Public, Galerie Sophia Ungers, Art 26:95 Basel

Art Fair, Basel

Sarah Cottier Gallery, San Fransisco Art Fair, San Francisco

Armleder, Donaldson, Nixon, Mosset, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney

Monochrome, Gimpel Fils, London

Double Vision, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney

HKG / SYD / HKG, Fringe Club Gallery, Hong Kong

Sarah Cottier Gallery, Galerie Mark Müller, Basel Art Fair, Basel

Opening Show, Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland

The Loti and Victor Smorgon Gift of Contemporary Australian Art, Museum of Contemporary Art,
Sydney, Australia

Anthology; Selected Curatorial Perspectives: Already Self Portrait, Artspace, Sydney

Group Exhibition, Kostring/Maier Galerie, Munich

Signed and Numbered, Vous Etes Ici, the editions, Museum Van Bommel-van Dam, Venlo, The

Netherlands

Galerie Mark Müller, Galerie Sophia Ungers, Art Cologne 29 International Art Fair, Cologne

1994

Colour, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne

White, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney

Inaugural Group, David Pestorius Gallery, Brisbane

Store 5, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane

Power Works from the MCA Collection, Museum of New Zealand Te papa Tongarewa, Wellington;
Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth; Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin; Waikato

Museum of Art and History, Hamilton

Dear John, Galerie Sophia Ungers, Cologne, Germany

Aussemblage: Everyday objects transformed, Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland; City Gallery,
Wellington

Galerie Mark Müller, Basel Art Fair, Basel

Paperwork, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney

Galerie Mark Müller, Galerie Ingrid Dacic, and Gimpel Fils Ltd,

Cologne Art Fair, Cologne, Germany

Re-Presenting Australian Painting, Teststrip and Rossinis Café, Auckland

Critique (The Artists Museum, Sydney Centre), First Draft, Sydney

The Last Show at Archillies House, Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland

Selected Bibliography

Barnes, Caroline and Sue Cramer, John Nixon, Roslyn Oxley Gallery, Sydney, 1990

Butler, Rex, ‘Nixon’s Watergate’, Eyeline, no. 25, 1994

Cramer, Sue, ‘Construction in Process’, Art in America, March, 1990

Curnow, Ben, ‘John Nixon’, Art & Text, no. 44, 1993

Selected Bibliography – continued

Curnow, Ben, John Nixon: EPW, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney, 1995

Dannat, Adam, ‘Group Otto’, Flash Art, March-April, 1994

Dean, Christopher, ‘John Nixon’, Home and away: Contemporary Australian and New Zealand art from the
Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery and David Bateman Ltd, Auckland, 1999

Dean, Christopher, ‘Nixon’s watershed’, Broadsheet, vol. 24, no. 4, 1996

Dean, Christopher, John Nixon, EPW mini-paintings, The University of South Australia Art Museum, Adelaide,
1996

Donaldson, A.D.S., and Rex Butler, Monster field, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney, 1993

Kübler, Gabrielle and Manfred Wandel, Icon=das bild, Stiftung für Konkrete Kunst, Reutingen, 1991

Kurjakovic, Daniel, ‘John Nixon’, Flash Art, March-April, 1994

Lynn, Victoria, Abstraction, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1990

Mark, Lisa Gabrielle, ‘Intercourse’, Artforum, May, 2000

Michael, Linda, John Nixon: works from the MCA Collection and two new works, Museum of Contemporary Art,

Sydney, 1993

Nicholson, Helen, Avant-gardism for children, University Art Museum, University of Queensland, Brisbane, 1999

Owen, Robert, ed., Inland, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, 1990

Pestorius, David, et al., Geometric painting in Australia 1941-1997, University of Queensland Art Museum,
Brisbane 1997

Phipps, Jennifer, ed., Off the wall, in the air: a seventies selection, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art,
Melbourne, 1991

Smith, Alan, ‘John Nixon’, Clemenger contemporary art award, Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Melbourne,
1999

Smith, Allan, John Nixon: EP+OW, Experimental painting and object workshop, 1988-1997, City Gallery,

Wellington, 1997

Smith, Trevor, John Nixon, EPW: Monochrome 1968-1996, 1996, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, 1995

Stepken, Angelika, ‘Construction in process, back in Lodz’, Kunstforum, no.111, 1990

Tyler, Linda and Ken Orchard, Cross currents: contemporary New Zealand and Australian art from the
Chartwell Collection, Waikato Museum of Art and History, Hamilton, 1990

Waterlow, Nick and Ross Mellick, Spirit + place: art in Australia 1861-1996, Museum of Contemporary Art,
Sydney, 1996

Public Collections

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide

Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth

Australian National Gallery, Canberra

Chartwell Collection, New Zealand

City of St. Kilda, Melbourne

Deakin University Collection, Geelong

Furkart, Furka, Switzerland

Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong

Griffith University, Brisbane

Monash University Collection, Melbourne

Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

Public Collections - continued

Museum Sztuki, Lodz, Poland

National Gallery of Contemporary Art, Seoul

National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane

Queensland University Art Museum, Brisbane

Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

Stiftung für Konkrete Kunst, Reutlingen, Germany

University of Melbourne, Melbourne