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Nathan Coley
Artist's Name: Nathan Coley
Preferred medium: installation
birth year: 1967
Nationality: GB
City: Dundee

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Nathan Coley investigates the social aspects of our built environment in works in a diverse range of media including public and gallery-based sculpture, photography, drawing and video. Coley's practice is based in an interest in public space, and explores how architecture comes to be invested, and reinvested, with meaning. It reveals that claims to public space are made by groups of people who have different ideas on how it should be used, and how the buildings they erect manifest that group's values and beliefs. For Coley, buildings are empty vessels given significance by their social history and by the communities that populate them. Coley is interested in exploring how cultural views and ideas differ with the passage of time and between locations. This exhibition brings together works in a variety of different visual languages that present homes, buildings and monuments from different times and locations. Coley sites them on a blue tarpaulin with a ten-metre rope, giving the models positioning a sense of impermanence. A second group of new works presents a series of photographs of contemporary show-homes from locations around Edinburgh. The images capture the conflagration of architectural styles in the vernacular post-modern design of new-build detached houses. Although a manufactured style created by our consumer society, the building's façade is widely understood as projecting the individual's status, taste and place in society. (Courtesy: Haunch of Venison , London)

important exhibitions from Nathan Coley

Exhibition Location City Country Date
Turner Prize 2007 - shortlist Tate Britain London GB 19.10.2007
Folkestone Triennial 2008 Folkestone Triennial Folkestone GB 14.06.2008
Häuser, Gesichter Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig GfZK Leipzig DE 22.09.2010
Nathan Coley Haunch of Venison Berlin closed Berlin DE 05.04.2008
Folkestone Triennial 2008 Folkestone GB 14.06.2008
LocalMotion Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig GfZK Leipzig DE 04.03.2001
Nathan Coley Haunch of Venison London GB 27.01.2005
Wunder - Kunst, Wissenschaft und Religion Deichtorhallen Hamburg DE 23.09.2011
The Jerusalem Syndrome Al-ma'mal Foundation for Contemporary Art Jerusalem IL 11.10.2009
Wunder Kunsthalle Krems Krems AT 04.03.2012

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Galleries representing
Nathan Coley:

doggerfisher, closed
Haunch of Venison
Haunch of Venison New York

Collections representing
Nathan Coley

Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig GfZK
National Galleries of Scotland