Mat Collishaw

(British, born 1966)

black mirror, hydrus by mat collishaw

Mat Collishaw

Black Mirror, Hydrus, 2014

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Biography

Timeline

1966
Born in Nottingham, England
1986
Trent Polytechnic, Nottingham, England
1989
B.F.A. Goldsmith’s College, University of London, UK
Lives and works in London, England

Exhibitions

2017
Mat Collishaw Selected Exhibitions in 2017:
Mat Collishaw, Galerie Rudolfinium, Prague, Czech Republic(solo exhibition)
The Centrifugal Soul, Blain|Southern, London, England(solo exhibition)
Thresholds, Photo London, Somerset House, London, England(solo exhibition)
Mat Collishaw, The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, Russia(solo exhibition)
Enjoy, Chiostro del Bramante, Rome, Italy
Luther and the Avant Garde, Stiftung für Kunst und Kultur e.V., Wittenberg, Germany
Jean-François Millet Retrospective, The Palais des Beaux-Arts, Lille, France
2016
Mat Collishaw Selected Exhibitions in 2016:
Fountains Relief, Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal Water Garden, England(solo exhibition)
On the Origins of Art, Museum of Old and New Art, Tasmania, Australia
In Camera and The End Of Innocence, Festival Images, Vevey, Switzerland
Daydreaming with Stanley Kubrick, Somerset House, London, England
A Weed is a Plant Out of Place, Lismore Castle Arts, Lismore, Co. Waterford, Ireland.
Now You See Me, TJ Boulting, London, England
2015
Mat Collishaw Selected Exhibitions in 2015:
Mat Collishaw, The New Art Gallery Walsall, West Midlands, England(solo exhibition)
In Camera, Library of Birmingham, Birmingham, England(solo exhibition)
L’inconscient pictòric (The Pictorial Unconscious), Museu Nacional D’art De Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
The Omnivore’s Dilemma: Visualized, University of Connecticut Contemporary Art Galleries, Mansfield, CT
Glasstress 2015 Gotika, Palazzo Franchetti, Instituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere e Arti, Venice, Italy
How to Construct a Time Machine, MK Gallery, Milton Keynes, England

Gallery of Wonder, Various venues In Search of the Miraculous, Newlyn Art Gallery, Penzance, Cornwall, England
SNAPE Proms, Aldeburgh Music, Aldeburgh, England
2014
Mat Collishaw Selected Exhibitions in 2014:
Black Mirror, Villa Borghese, Rome, Italy(solo exhibition)
Mat Collishaw, Galeria 1/9 Unosunove, Rome, Italy(solo exhibition)
Mat Collishaw, Patricia Low Contemporary, Gstaad, Switzerland(solo exhibition)
The Yielding Glass, An Gailearrai, Donegal, Ireland(solo exhibition)
The Bigger Picture: Work from the 1990s, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, NY
Since 1843 – In the Making, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, England
Vanitas: Fashion and Art, Bass Museum of Art, Miami, Florida Galleria Borghese, Rome, Italy
Out of our Heads, Shoreditch Town Hall, London, England
Back to Eden, Museum of Biblical Art, New York, NY
Today’s Specials, Pace, London, England
2013
Mat Collishaw Selected Exhibitions in 2013:
This is Not an Exit, Blain Southern, London, England(solo exhibition)
Last Meal on Death Row, Bass Museum of Art, Miami, FL(solo exhibition)
Afterimage, ARTER Space fot Art, Istanbul, Turkey(solo exhibition)
Mat Collishaw, Pino Pascali Foundation Polignano a Mare, Bari, Italy(solo exhibition)
Preternatural, Fama Gallery, Verona, Italy(solo exhibition)
La Vie de Chateau, Chateau Departmental des Adhemar, Montélimar, France(solo exhibition)
Beastly Hall, Bexely Hall, London, England
White Light/ White Heat: Contemporary Artists & Glass, Palazzo Cavalli
Franchetti, Venice and Berengo Studio & Gallery, Murano, Venice, Italy
Victoriana - The Art of Revival, Guildhall Art Gallery, London, England
Design for Labyrinth of Love Tour 2012/13, Rambert Dance Company, Chiswick, London, England
2012
Mat Collishaw Selected Exhibitions in 2012:
Mat Collishaw: Vitacide, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, NY(solo exhibition)
Mat Collishaw: The End of Innocence, CGP London, Southwark Park(solo exhibition)
Bermondsey, London, England(solo exhibition)
Peals of the Abyss, Analix Forever, Geneva, Switzerland(solo exhibition)
Crystal Gaze, Raucci/Santamaria Gallery, Naples, Italy(solo exhibition)
Sordid Earth, Greenaway Art Gallery, Kent Town, Australia(solo exhibition)
Design for Labyrinth of Love Tour 2012/13, Rambert Dance Company, Chiswick, London, England
Out of Focus: Photography, Saatchi Gallery, London, England
720 Degrees: a video installation by Ron Arad, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Britain Creates 2012 – Fashion and Art Collusion, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England A Drawing While Waiting for an Idea, Large Glass Company, London, England
The Nature of the Beast, The New Art Gallery Walsall, West Midlands, England
Made in Britain, Contemporary Art from the British Council Collection, Benaku
Museum, Athens, Greece
Des Images, Des Histoires, Palais Jacques Coeur, Bourges, France
Design, MUba Eugene Leroy, Tourcoing, France
Le Printemps de Septembre art festival, Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, France
Spieglein, Spieglein an der Wand, Rohkunstbau, Berlin, Germany
2011
Mat Collishaw Selected Exhibitions in 2011:
Magic Lantern, Victoria & Albert Museum Crown Commission, London, England(solo exhibition)
Memories of the future, The Olbricht Collection, Paris, France
La Forêt de mon rêve, Galerie d'Art du Conseil Général de Bouches-du-Rhône, Cours Mirabeau, Aix-en-Provence, France
Phantoms Shadows and Phenomena, Kennedy Museum of Art, Ohio University, Athens, OH
Otherwordly: Optical Delusions and Small Realities, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY
Untitled: 12th Istanbul Biennial, curated by Adriano Pedrosa and Jens Hoffman, Istanbul, Turkey
Sordid Earth, Ron Arad’s Curtain Call Project, Roundhouse, London, England
House of Beasts, Attingham Park, England
Viel Lärm um Alles – Barockes in der zeitgenössischen Kunst, Hans für Kunst, Altdorf, Switzerland
2010
Mat Collishaw Selected Exhibitions in 2010:
Retrospectre, British Film Institute, Southbank, London, England(solo exhibition)
Superveillance, Galleria Raucci-Santamaria, Naples, Italy(solo exhibition)
Outcasts, Complesso Monumentale Santo Spirito, curated by Valentina Ciarallo and Pier Paolo Pancotto, Sassia, Italy(solo exhibition)
Modern Pastimes, Fama Gallery, Verona, Italy(solo exhibition)
Last Meal on Death Row, Analix Forever, Geneva, Switzerland(solo exhibition)
Shooting Stars & Garden of Unearthly Delights, Void, Derry, Ireland(solo exhibition)
Creation Condemned, Blain Southern, London, England(solo exhibition)
Exhibition with Mat Collishaw, Tracy Emin and Paula Rego: The Foundling, The Foundling Museum, London, England
Extraordinary Measures, Belsay Castle Northumberland, England
Kennedy Museum of Art, University of Ohio, Athens, OH
The Library of Babel/In and Out of Place, 176, Zabludowicz Collection, London, England
Locus Solus, Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece
2009
Mat Collishaw Selected Exhibitions in 2009:
Mat Collishaw: Nebulaphobia, Uno Su Nove, Rome, Italy(solo exhibition)
Hysteria, curated by James Putnam, Freud Museum, London, England(solo exhibition)
Submission, Haunch of Venison, Berlin, Germany(solo exhibition)
Distortion, curated by James Putnam, a collateral event of the 53rd International Art Exhibition- La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
Contact: Still Revolution, Toronto Photography Festival, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Eat Me, Drink Me: Works from the Collection, The Goss-Michael Foundation, Dallas, TX
Mythologies, Haunch of Vension, London, England
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, Bugada and Cargnel, Paris, France
2008
Mat Collishaw Selected Exhibitions in 2008:
Electric Ladyland, Galerie Analix Forever, Geneva, Switzerland(solo exhibition)
Deliverance, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, NY(solo exhibition)
Deliverance, Spring Projects Gallery, London, England(solo exhibition)
Mat Collishaw, William Curwen, Herve Ingrand, Galleria Raucci, Santamaria, Naples, Italy
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London, England
Take me there show me the way, Haunch of Venison, New York, NY

Public Collections

21c Museum, Louisville, KY
Centre Pomidou – Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris, France
GAM, Turin, Italy
Martin Z. Margulies Collection, Miami, FL
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
Museum old and New Art, New South Wales, AU
The Olbricht Collection, Paris, France
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Tate Collection, London, England

Literature

2007
Mat Collishaw, published by Other Criteria
2001
'A Contemporary Cabinet of Curiosities', Selections from the Vicki & Kent Logan Collection, CCAC, 2001
1999
‘Vision. 50 years British Creativity’, Thames & Hudson. Text by David Sylvester,David Hockney, Melvin Bragg, Michael Craig – Martin, Nicholas Serota
1998
‘Real/Life: New British Art’, exhibition catalogue, published by The Asahi Shimbun, Japan
1997
'Mat Collishaw ', Jon Thompson, Artimo Foundation
‘Screen’, portfolio of 11 prints by 12 artists, Anne Faggionato Gallery, published by Charles Booth-Clibborn
1996
Push Ups, exhibition catalogue, Athens
Live/Life exhibition catalogue, Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
Digital Gardens: A world in Mutation, exhibition catalogue, The Power Plant
Fernbedienung, exhibition catalogue, Grazer Kunstverein