Mike Nelson came to prominence in the late 1990s, creating psychological environments by sifting through the debris of modern life. His installations are expansive dominions for assemblages of cultural detritus, often referencing specific works of literature and countercultural or failed political movements. Working with figures and materials on the fringes of society, Nelson asks his viewers to spend time inhabiting worlds that, while foreign on the surface, reveal intrinsic truths and modes of thought that affect even the most basic cultural activities. His work has been widely shown and collected by, amongst others, the Tate London and Moderna Museet, Stockholm. Nelson lives and works in London.
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SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2023 Extinction Beckons, Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, United Kingdom
2019 Tate Britain Commission, Tate Britain, London, United Kingdom
2018 250th Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, United Kingdom
2017 The Everywhere Studio, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL
2016 Amnesiac Shrine or The misplacement…, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
Cloak, Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, Monaco
2015 13th Lyon Biennale, Lyon, France
2014 Studio apparatus for Kunsthalle Münster, Kunsthalle Münster, Germany
Amnesiac Hide, The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada
2013 CAG, Vancouver, Canada
2012 Malmo Konsthall, Malmo, Sweden
2011 54th Venice Biennale, British Pavilion, Venice
2009 Kristus och Judas: a structural conceit (a performance in three parts), Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenaghen, Denmark
Altermodern, Tate Triennial, Tate Britain, London, UK
PUBLIC AND MUSEUM COLLECTIONS
Arts Council Collection, London, UK
Hayward Gallery, London, UK
British Council Collection, London, UK
Rennie Collection, Vancouver, Canada
Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
The New Art Gallery, Walsall, UK
Tate Collection, London, UK
MAMCO, Geneva, Switzerland
V-A-C Collection, Moscow, Russia
RISD Museum, Providence, RI