Born Glasgow, 1967. Lives and works in Glasgow.
Nathan Coley received a BA Hons in Fine Art from Glasgow School of Art in 1989.
Coley examines how the values of a society are reflected in, and determined by, its built environment, addressing concerns such as the importance of place, the social value of architecture and the meaning and relevance of contemporary monuments. Coley produced a ‘camouflage portrait’ for the first Cove Park Portfolio, transposing the language of his neon sculptural work for the solo exhibition There will be no miracles here, at Mount Stuart, Isle of Bute, 2006 and used in a public installation in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, launched in September 2006.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2009
Bergen Kunsthall, Norway
2008
’46 Brooklands Gardens’, Firstsite, Public Commission, Jaywick
De la Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea
Haunch of Venison, Berlin
2007
Turner Prize shortlisted artist / Tate Liverpool
Nathan Coley, doggerfisher, Edinburgh
‘We Must Cultivate Our Garden’, St Andrew Square, Edinburgh.
‘Gathering of Strangers’, Centre for Contemporary Art, Nottingham
2006
‘Camouflage Church’, Santiago de Compostela
‘There Will Be No Miracles Here’, Mount Stuart, Isle of Bute
2005
Haunch of Venison, London
‘Jerusalem Syndrome’. Cooper Gallery, Duncan of Jordanstone, Dundee
2004
Nathan Coley, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
‘Show Home’, Milton Keynes Gallery
2003
‘Black Tent’, Portsmouth Cathedral, Portsmouth
‘Show Home’, City Arts Centre, Dublin
‘Show Home’, North Shields, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne
2002
‘Ruskin’s Road’, Leidsche Rijn, The Netherlands (as part of Super Utrecht)
‘The Black Maria’, The Physics Room, (as part of Scape: Art & Industry Urban Biennial) Christchurch, New Zealand
2001
Nathan Coley and Bas Jan Ader, Vilma Gold, London
‘The Italian Tower’, Kielder Reservoir, Northumbria, England
‘The Land Marked’, Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon 2000 International style, Architectural Association, London
Nathan Coley, (with de Rijke / de Rooji) Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich