John Nixon
EDUCATION1967 - 68 Preston Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Australia
1969 -70 National Gallery of Victoria Art School, Melbourne (Diploma of Art)
1970 State College of Victoria, Melbourne (Diploma of Education)
1973 First solo exhibition, Pinacotheca, Melbourne
1999 Clemenger Contemporary Art Award, Melbourne
2001/02 Recipient of an Australian Council Fellowship Award
RECENT SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010 John Nixon/David Tremlett Goddard de Fiddes Gallery, Perth
Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
2009 1984 Tableaux, Level 2, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne
John Nixon/Julian Daspher, Laure Genillard, London, England
Peloton, Sydney
Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney
2007 Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
EPW: POLYCHROME, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Melbourne
Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney
S.N.O., Sydney
Milan Mrkusich and John Nixon, Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
2006 EPW: SILVER, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne
EPW, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide
EPW, Galerie Mark Müller, Zurich, Switzerland
Fine Art Fair, Galerie Mark Müller, Frankfurt, Germany
S.N.O., Sydney
Lucio Fontana and John Nixon, Project, National Gallery of Victoria, International, Melbourne
2005 EPW: SILVER, Anna Schwartz Gallery at the Depot Gallery, Sydney
Matter: Selected works on paper etc. 1968 - 2005, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
Goddard de Fiddes Gallery, Perth
Julian Dashper/John Nixon: The World is Your Studio, School of Fine Art Gallery, University of Newcastle, Newcastle
The RMIT Project, John Nixon and Christoph Dahlhausen, RMIT Project Space, Melbourne
2004 EPW 2004, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
Showcase NL, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
John Nixon/ Stephen Bambury, Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand
Julian Dashper/John Nixon: The World is Your Studio, Gus Fisher Gallery, University of Auckland, New Zealand
2003 Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney
EPW: ORANGE, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne
Goddard de Fiddes Gallery, Perth
John Nixon/ Christoph Dahlhausen, Galerie Eva Mack, Stuttgart, Germany
Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
2002 Galerie Mark Müller, Zurich, Switzerland
Espace d'Art Contemporain, Demigny, France
John Nixon/ Stephen Bambury, Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand
Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney
ARCO, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Madrid, Spain
John Nixon/Martin Creed, The Physics Room, Christchurch, New Zealand
John Nixon/ Stephen Bambury CNR, Melbourne
Zero, l'infini, Paris, France
2001 New Zero, Piero Manzoni John Nixon, Daimlerchrysler Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
Gerber / Nixon, Australian Embassy, Tokyo, Japan
Goddard de Fiddes Gallery, Perth
Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne
John Nixon/Martin Creed, A painting and a sculpture, 1st Floor artists and writers space, Melbourne
EPW: ORANGE, Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel, Switzerland
Galerie Evelyne Canus, Paris, France
Piero Manzoni/ John Nixon, Stiftung fur Konkrete Kunst, Reutlingen, Germany
Works 1968 - 2000, Stiftung fur Konkrete Kunst, Reutlingen, Germany
Showcase, Wellington, New Zealand
P.S. Amsterdam, The Netherlands
John Nixon/Martin Creed, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney
RECENT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010 stick it! Collage in Australian Art, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Melbourne >< Brisbane: Punk, Art and After, Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne
Pictures about Pictures. Discursive Painting from Albers to Zobernig (The Daimler Collection) -MUMOK, Vienna, Austria
Recent Acquisitions, Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne-shibboleth 3, Carstensen Studio, Copenhagen, Denmark
shibboleth 5, Carstensen Studio, Copenhagen, Denmark
Composition, Conical inc. Melbourne
Duetto, Australian Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide-Justin Andrews, Renee Cosgrave, John Nixon, SNO, Sydney
What to look for in Winter, Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
New Abstraction to Post Formalism, SNO, Sydney
2009 AC4CA, SNO, Sydney
Julian Dashper, Daniel Malone, John Nixon, Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Drawing Folio, Block Projects, Melbourne
Wham: panting & beyond, Den Frei, Copenhagen, Denmark
Concrete Now! Introducing PS, HICA, Loch Ruthven, Iverness, Scotland
PS 1999-2009, PS, Amsterdam / Kunstruimte09, Groningen, The Netherlands
Colour, Galerie Jean Greset, Besancon, France
Private View, Stadtische Gallery, Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany
Portrait de l'artist en Motocycliste (Olivier Mossett Collection), Le Magasin, Grenoble, France
Collage, Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Inaugural Exhibition, Lyon Housemuseum, Melbourne
Abstraction 8, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
Queensland Art 2009, Pestorius Sweeney House, Brisbane
Summer, Goddard de Fiddes Gallery, Perth
Finalist, The Melbourne Prize for urban sculpture, Federation Square, Melbourne
Joint Hassles Poster Series, Joint Hassles, Nth Melbourne
Aus Australien: 8 Graphic Positions, Edition Block, Berlin, Germany
2008 Australia - Contemporary Non-objective Art, Museum in Kulturspeicher, Wurzburg, Germany
Kunstahalle Dominikanerkirche, Osnabruck, Germany
Group Show, Goddard de Fiddes, Perth
Contemporaneous, Australian Contemporary Painting 1, Wangaratta Exhibitions Gallery, Wangaratta
Melbourne Art Fair, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Hamish McKay Gallery, Sue Crockford Gallery, Melbourne
The, The Suburban, Chicago, U.S.A.
Chromatic Visions, Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney
Yo, Mo' Modernism 1, CCNOA, Brussels, Belgium
Non Objektiv, Gesellschaft fur Kunst and Gestaltung e.V., Bonn, Germany
The Melbourne Prize, Federation Square, Melbourne
Primary Views, Monash University Museum of Art, Clayton
Y2K Melbourne Biennal, TCB Art Inc., Melbourne
Group Exhibition, Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
2007 Structure Space and Place, Kangaroo Ground
A0 THEN, Peloton, Sydney
Arthur Guy Memorial Art Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo
Der Zweite Blick. Werke der Sammlung, Stiftung fur Konkrete Kunst, Reutlingen, Germany
Composite Realities Amid Time and Space: Recent Art and Photography,
Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
Hardcore, Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart
Abstraction/Architecture/Space, RMIT Project Space, Melbourne
Materiality, Switchback Gallery, Monash University Gippsland Campus, Churchill
SNO at Austral Avenue, Austral Avenue, Melbourne
Recent Acquisitions, Monash University Museum of Art, Clayton
Are You Being Flocked, Carlton Hotel, Melbourne
Australia - Contemporary Non-objective Art,
Gesellschaft fur Kunst and Gestaltung e.V. and Raum 2810, Bonn, Germany
SNO, Minus-Space, New York, U.S.A.
Ahnlichkeiteu: Hommage a Fortuny, Stiftung fur Konkrete Kunst, Reutlingen, Germany
2006 Biennale of Australian Art, 21st Century Modern, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
ARCO Art Fair, Galerie Mark Müller, Madrid, Spain
Take Off, Hebel 121, Basle, Switzerland
The Sydney Non Objective Group, SNO, Sydney
Art Basel, Galerie Mark Müller, Basel, Switzerland
Abstarct Art Now - Strictly Geometrical? Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshaften, Germany
Just Painting, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
New Work 2, (John Nixon and Charles Wilton), Ocular lab, Melbourne
Additiv Parallel Synchron, Stiftung fur Konkrete Kunst, Reutlingen, Germany
We're Open, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney
2005 re/thinking, Bus Gallery, Melbourne
Minimal Approach - Concrete Tendencies, Tin Sheds Gallery, Sydney
An Exhibition of Posters, PB Gallery, Melbourne
6 km from C.B.D., SNO Sydney
Group Show, SNO, Sydney
Australian Centre for Concrete Art, SNO, Sydney
AC4CA, Moores Building, Perth
Art Forum, Galene Markus Richter, Berlin, Germany
Offene Ateliers, Atelierhaus des Kunstuervein, Bonn, Germany
15 Years of Conny Dietzschold Gallery Anniversary Exhibition, Conny Dietzschold Gallery, Sydney
Pitch Your Own Tent: Art Projects / Store 5 / 1st Floor, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne
Store 5 is, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne
2004 Melbourne Art Fair, Hamish McKay Gallery, Melbourne
Frieze Art Fair, Hamish McKay Gallery, London, England
Koln Art Fair, Galerie Mark Müller, Koln, Germany
Before Night - After Nature, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne
Australian Centre for Concrete Art print portfolio, Goddard de Fiddes Gallery, Perth
Conversations, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
Bram Donaldson Jenkins Nixon Reiter-Raabe, Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
The DaimlerChrysler Collection in South Africa - tour South Africa
Contemporary Australian Prints from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Three-way Abstraction: Works from the Monash University Collection, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne
Josef Albers, Richard Dunn, Gunther Forg, Katharina Grosse, John Nixon, Gow Langsford Gallery, Sydney
2003 Breaking the Charmed Circle, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Los Angeles, U.S.A
Supernova, Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
Basle Art Fair, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Basle, Switzerland
Small Colours, Galerie Eva Mack, Stuttgart, Germany
10 Years, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney
DailmerChrysler Collection, Detroit Institute of Arts Detroit, U.S.A.
MCA Unpacked 11, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
ARCO, Goddard de Fiddes Gallery, Madrid, Spain
DaimlerChrysler Collection, Museum für Neure Kunst Zkm Karlsruhe, Germany
Picnic, Melbourne's Living Museum of the West Inc., Melbourne
2002 Fieldwork: Australian Art 1968-2002, The Ian Potter Centre, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Veczoennections: Contemporary Artists from Australia, House of Croatian Artists, Zagreb, Croatia
Minimalist After, Daimlerchrysler Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
Yellow, Pestorius Sweeney House, Brisbane
2 Step, Centre for Contemporary Non-objective Art, Brussels, Belgium
Abstract, Galerie Evelyne Canus, Basle, Switzerland
Basle Art Fair, Galerie Evelyne Canus, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Basle, Switzerland
Objet Non Identifie, Hans Trudel-Haus Galerie, Baden, Switzerland
Amplified Abstraction, Chapel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Kyle Jenkins, Marco Fusinato, John Nixon, CNR, Melbourne
Supergroup, Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
Print Exhibition, Lesley Kreisler Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
Paperwork 2, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney
10 year anniversary, Goddard de Fiddes Gallery, Perth
COLLECTIONS
Nixon Depot 1968-2009, Melbourne Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
John Nixon Archive (1968 - 2009) Melbourne Chartwell Collection, Auckland, New Zealand
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, U.S.A. Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
Museum Sztuki, Lodz, Poland Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Foire National d'Art Contemporain, Paris, France Australian National Gallery, Canberra
Stiftung fur Konkrete Kunst, Reutlingen, Germany National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
The Artists Museum, Lodz, Poland Smorgon Collection, Melbourne
Furkart, Furka, Switzerland Deakin University Collection, Geelong
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
National Gallery of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea City of St. Kilda, Melbourne
Griffith University, Brisbane Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide Monash University Collection, Melbourne
University of Melbourne Museum of Art, Melbourne Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane
Queensland University Art Museum, Brisbane Myer Collection, Melbourne
Banyule City Council, Melbourne Herning Kunstmuseumm, Denmark
DailmerChrysler Collection, Berlin, Germany Kunstmuseum Esberg, Denmark
MAB Corp, Melbourne Espace d'Art Contemporain, Demigny, France
Wesfarmers Collection, Perth Parks Victoria, Melbourne
Smorgon Collection, Melbourne Queensland University Art Museum, Brisbane
Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong Reader's Digest Collection, New York, U.S.A.
Australian Centre for Concrete Art, Fremantle Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
TarraWarra Museum of Art, Melbourne Christchurch Art Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand