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Nigel Cooke    (British, 1973)

 Nigel Cooke - Critical Masters (Paintings) h: 235 x w: 160 x d: 7 cm / h: 92.5 x w: 63 x d: 2.8 in
Nigel Cooke
Critical Masters 2007
 
 Nigel Cooke - Ghosts That Need Tending (Paintings) h: 86.7 x w: 145.7 x d: 2.8 in / h: 220.2 x w: 370.1 x d: 7.1 cm
Nigel Cooke
Ghosts That Need Tending 2006
 
 Nigel Cooke - Ill/Health (Paintings) h: 86.7 x w: 145.8 x d: 2.8 in / h: 220.2 x w: 370.3 x d: 7.1 cm
Nigel Cooke
Ill/Health 2006
 
 Nigel Cooke - Night Studio (Paintings) h: 220.5 x w: 370.3 x d: 7.1 cm / h: 86.8 x w: 145.8 x d: 2.8 in
Nigel Cooke
Night Studio 2007
 
 Nigel Cooke - Painter (Searcher) (Works on Paper (Drawings, Watercolors etc.)) h: 21 x w: 14.8 cm / h: 8.3 x w: 5.8 in
Nigel Cooke
Painter (Searcher) 2006
 
 Nigel Cooke - Projects 2 (Paintings) h: 48 x w: 59.8 in / h: 121.9 x w: 151.9 cm
Nigel Cooke
Projects 2 2007
 

Biography
1973 Born in Manchester, July 17th
1991 - 1994 BA (Hons), Fine Art, Nottingham Trent University
1995 - 1997 MA Painting, Royal College of Art
1999 - 2004 PHD in Fine Art, Goldsmith’s College, London
Lives & works in London
Collections
British Council, London
Tate Gallery, London
Dakis Joannou Collection Foundation, Athens
François Pinault Collection, Paris
Sammlung Goetz Collection, Munich
Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Oslo
Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Queensland Art Gallery, Queensland
Honart Museum, Tehran
Rachofsky Collection, Dallas (promised gift to Dallas Museum of Modern Art)
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Rubell Family Collection, Miami
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Guggenheim Museum, New York

Exhibitions
2009 Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York (solo)
2008 Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London (solo)
2007 Moderna Museet, Stockholm (solo)
2007 Effigies, Stuart Shave Modern Art, London
2007 The Fractured Figure, Deste Foundation, Athens
2007 Dream & Trauma. Works from the Dakis Joannou collection, Athens, in collaboration with MUMOK & Kunsthalle, Vienna
2007 Guggenheim Collection: 1940s to Now – New York-Venice-Bilbao-Berlin, National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
2007 Imagination Becomes Reality, Museum of Contemporary Art at ZKM, Karlsruhe
2007 Fun de Siécle: Symbolism and Contemporary Art, Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal
2006 A Portrait of Everything, South London Gallery, London (solo)
2006 Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth (solo)
2006 Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York (solo)
2006 Summer exhibition, Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London
2006 New Trajectories I: Relocations, curated from the Ovitz Family Collection, Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College, Portland
2006 Sherry and Joel Mallin’s collection, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, New York
2005 George Condo and Nigel Cooke, Blum and Poe, Los Angeles
2005 Chambres à Part, Sezz Hotel, Paris. Curator: Laurence Dreyfus
2005 Interested Painting, Gallery 400, University of Illinois, Chicago
2005 Strata – Difference And Repetition, Fondazione Davide Halevim, Milan
2005 Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London (solo)
2004 Art Now, Tate Britain, London (solo)
2004 Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York (solo)
2004 Monument to Now, The Dakis Joannou Collection, Athens
2004 Edge of the Real, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
2004 Gewalt, Loushy Art & Editions, Tel Aviv
2004 Sodium and Asphalt: Contemporary British Art in Mexico, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City
2003 Works on Paper, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco
2003 I See A Darkness, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles
2003 Dirty Pictures, The Approach, London
2002 Still Life, The British Council, London
2002 Melodrama, ARTIUM, Centro-Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain: travelling to Centro José Guerrero / Palacio de los Condes de Gabia, Granada
2002 Modern Art, London (solo)
2001 Tattoo Show, Modern Art, London
2001 A Sport & a Pastime, Greene Naftali Inc., New York
2000 Homage to the Budokan, Foyles Gallery, London
2000 Wooden Heart, Avco, London
2000 Nigel Cooke, CHAPMAN Fine ARTS, London (solo)
1999 Glory, British Council Window Gallery, Prague
1998 New Contemporaries 98, Camden Arts Gallery, London (Touring)
1997 Interesting Painting, City Racing, London

Literature
2008 Jones, Laura K. London Dispatch, Artnet.com Magazine, June 3
2008 Ward, Ossian. Failure is an Option, Time Out London, No. 1970, May 22 – May 24, p. 65
2008 Milliard, Coline. Welcome to the Rubbish Dump of the Real, Art Review, Issue 22, May, p. 70-79
2008 MacDonald, Vici. New Work: Nigel Cooke Q&A, Artworld, Issue 4, Pg 56-61, April – May
2008 Gleadell, Colin. Daily Telegraph, 22 April, p. 28
2008 Lack, Jessica. Show Preview, Guardian Guide, 19 April, p. 36
2007 Turvey, Lisa. Artforum, Issue XLV, No. 5, January
2007 Traum and Trauma, works from the Dakis Joannou collection, Athens, published by Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern and MUMOK, Vienna
2006 Paintings 01-06, Ingvild and Stephan Goetz, Suhail Malik, Darian Leader, published by Koenig Books London
2006 Imagination Becomes Reality, Part III, Talking Pictures, pg. 34-55
2006 New Art From London, published by Thames & Hudson
2006 Bourbon, Matthew. Review, Artforum.com, Critics’ Picks, October
2006 Granberyy, Michael. Creating What Hasn’t Been Seen, Dallas Morning News, October 21
2006 Le Marie, Nicole. Exhibition Review, Modern Painters, June, p. 118
2006 Kent, Sarah. Exhibition Review, Time Out London, May 10-17, p. 41
2006 Guener, Fisun. Nigel Cooke: A Portrait Of Everything, Metro, April 5
2006 Lubbock, Tom. Nightmare Visions, The Independent, p. 46-47, March 3
2006 Kunitz, Daniel. All the Painting You Need, Art Review, March
2006 Zenakos, Augistine. Dakis Joannou and the Deste Foundation, Contemporary, No. 80, 2006, p. 85-86
2005 Nigel Cooke, Art Review, December
2005 Honigman, Ana Finel. Nigel Cooke: Modern Art, Art News, October
2005 DETaIL, Sleek Magazine, Issue 05
2005 Sanders, Mark. Entropic Nowhere, Another Magazine, Spring/Summer
2005 Land, Wes. Interview, Tokion Magazine, March
2005 Transmission: Speaking and listening, volume 4: Provenance, Site Gallery Publishing
2004 Monument to Now, exhibition catalogue, Deste Foundation of Contemporary Art
2004 Sodium and Asphalt: Contemporary British Art in Mexico, exhibition catalogue, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City
2004 Now and Then, Art Now at Tate Britain Catalogue, Text by Martin Herbert
2004 Gewalt Catalogue, Loushy Art and Editions
2004 Garrett, Craig. Interview, Flash Art, May – June
2004 Ribas, Joao. Time Out, New York, Issue 449, May 6
2004 Northern Soul, Art Review, April 2004
2004 Cumming, Laura. Lost In The Small Print, The Observer, March 2004
2004 Sweet, Matthew. Making Plans for Nigel, The Independent Magazine, February 14 p. 24-26
2003 Korotkin, Joyce. Exploring Landscape: Eight Views from Britain, The New York Art World.com, March
2003 Wilson, Michael. Exploring Landscape: Eight Views from Britain, Art Monthly, March
2003 Williams, Gilda. Dirty Pictures, Art Monthly, March
2003 Rosenberg, Karen. Landscape, Secondhand and Otherwise…, Village Voice, 12-18 February
2003 Knight, Christopher. On the Underbelly of the Zeitgeist, Los Angeles Times, 21 February
2003 Smith, Roberta. Exploring Landscape, The New York Times, Influence Magazine, Issue 1, February 14
2002 Schwabsky, Barry. Nigel Cooke, ARTFORUM, May
2002 Coomer, Martin. Nigel Cooke, Time Out, April 10-17
2002 Ratnam, Niru. Bring Out The Chimp, The Face, April
2002 Quirk, Justin. Adolf 4 Eva: Another Art Controversy, i-D Magazine, April
2002 Summers, Francis. Big Scary Flashes of Perversity, Sleaze Nation, April
2002 de Ville, Nick. Entropy’s Cold Desert, Contemporary Art Magazine, March, p. 18-23
2002 Seymour, Benedict. When Worlds Collide, Frieze, March, p. 74-75
2002 Nigel Cooke, Modern Art publication, text by Jake Chapman
2002 Still Life, British Council, text by Ann Gallagher
2002 Melodrama, exhibition catalogue, Musee de Arte Contemporanea de Vigo
2001 Testino, Dutch Magazine, July/August
2000 Coxhead, Gabriel. Exhibit E: Nigel Cooke, Dazed and Confused, December
2000 Gleeson, David. Reviews, Time Out, 6-13 December
2000 Fallon, James. W magazine, December
2000 Hubbard, Sue. And Wilde Desires, March
1999 New Kids Explore Old Angst, The Times, August 18
1998 Sewell, Brian. How Dare They Spend Our Cash on This, Evening Standard, August 13
1998 Cork, Richard. New Kids Explore Old Angst, New Contemporaries, The Times, March
1998 New Contemporaries 98, Published by New Contemporaries
1997 Clark, Robert. Laddy in the Lake, The Guardian, July
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