1966 Born in Nottingham, England
1986 Trent Polytechnic, Nottingham, England
1989 BA Fine Art, Goldsmiths College, University of London, England
Photographer, sculptor and filmmaker. Mat Collishaw was born in Nottingham and studied at Goldsmith’s College in London. Much of his work contains historical and art-historical references to the interaction between nature and culture. Often the images are appropriated and digitally altered, the underlying theme being the relationship between representation and reality. The artist lives and works in London.
Exhibitions
2008 – 2009 Mat Collishaw, Alalix Forever, Geneva, Switzerland (solo)
2008 Deliverance, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York (solo)
2008 Shooting Star, Haunch of Venison, London, UK (solo)
2008 Summer Exhibition – In The Old Fashioned Way, Gallery 8, Royal Academi, Aberdour, UK
2007 Cornice Art Fair, Analix Forever, Geneva (solo)
2007 Venice Biennale
2007 Reconstruction #2, Sudeley Castle, Gloucestershire
2006 Handsome, Analix Forever, Geneva
2006 Buenas noches, Analix Forever, Geneva (solo)
2006 Raucci/Santamaria Gallery, Naples (solo)
2005 No one is innocent, Grimm Rosenfeld, Munich (solo)
2005 The Parable Show, Grimm/Rosenfeld, Munich
2005 Fragile, Analix Forever, Geneva
2005 Inverleith House, Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, UK (solo)
2004 Analix Forever, Geneva
I, Assassin, Wallspace Gallery, New York
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
Gardens, Tate Britain, London
2003 The Luminous Image, VI (curated by Franc Palaia), Collaborative Concepts, Beacon, NY
Retinal Stain/Persistance Retinienne, Artissima, Turin (November), Art Basel Miami (December)
Modern Art, London
Cadrage, Analix Forever, Geneva
2002 – 2003 Raucci/Santamaria Gallery, Naples
2002 Penetration, Marriane Boesky Gallery/Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, NY
Cosmic Galerie, Paris
Unexpected Selections from the Martin Z. Margulies Collection:Art from 185 to the present, The Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami, Florida
Tableaux Vivants: Living Pictures and Attitudes in Photography, Film, and Video, Kunsthalle, Vienna, Austria
Mirroring Evil/Nazi Imagery in Recent Art, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
Nausea, Djanogly Art Gallery, Nottingham, England
New Religious Art, Liverpool Biennial curated by Neal Brown
2001 New Works, Galerie Analix Forever, Geneva, Switzerland
Mat Collishaw, Site Gallery, Sheffield, England
Raucci/Santamaria, Naples, Italy
New Works, Modern Art, London, England
Ultra Violet Baby, 4 day film screening, Shoreditch Town Hall, London, England
Bonakdar Jancou Gallery, New York, NY
Lux Gallery, London, England
At Sea, Sainsbury Centre, UEA, Norwich, England
At Sea, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, England
Tattoo Show, Modern Art, London, England
Electronic Maple, New York Centre for Media Arts, New York, NY
Sacred & Profane, A Sheffield Galleries & Museums Trust Touring Exhibition, Sheffield, England
Claustrophobia, Cartwright Hall, Lister Park, Bradford, England
2000 Museum of Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland
2000 Greenhouse Effect, Serpentine Gallery, London, England
2000 1000+1 Nacht, Landesmuseum, Linz, Austria
2000 Sex and the British, Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery, Paris, France
2000 And She Will Have Your Eyes Forever, Galerie Analix Forever, Geneva, Switzerland
2000 Bierfest, VTO, London, England
1999 EXTRAerORDINAIRE, Printemps de Cahors, France
1999 Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy
1999 Flesheaters, Galerie Analix Forever, Geneva, Switzerland
1998 Bloom Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1998 Bonakdar Jancou Gallery, New York, NY
1998 Exterminating Angel, Galerie Guislaine Hussenot, Paris, France
1998 Claustrophobia, IKON Gallery, Birmingham, AL
1998 Two person exhibition with Damien Hirst, Anne Faggionato, London, England
1998 London Calling, British Art School at Rome, Rome, Italy
1998 Close Echoes, City Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
1998 The Edge of Awareness, P.S. 1 Museum, Long Island City, NY
1998 Then and Now, Lisson Gallery, London, England
1997 Pictura Britannica, Museum of Contemporary Arts, Sydney, Australia
1997 Sensation: Young British Artist from the Saatchi Collection, Royal Academy of Arts, London, England
1997 Full House: Young British Art, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
1997 Galerie Analix Forever, Geneva, Switzerland
1997 Galleria Raucci/Santamaria, Naples, Italy
1997 Duty Free Spirits, Lisson Gallery, London, England
1997 Urban Legends, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden Baden, Germany
1997 London Live, Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg, Germany
1997 The Citybank Private Bank Photography Prize, Royal College of Art, London, England
1997 Live/Life, Fundaçao de Descobertes, Lisbon, Portugal
1996 Control Freaks, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, NY
1996 Fernbedienung/Does Television inform the Way Art is Made?, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, Austria
1996 The Inner Eye, Manchester City Art Gallery, Manchester, England
1996 Manifesta, Natural History Museum, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
1996 The British Art Show IV, Hayward Gallery for the Arts, London, England
1996 Exchanging Interiors, Museun Van Loon, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1996 Comme un oiseau, Fondation Cartier, Paris, France
1996 Hybrids, De Appel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1996 Statements, Art Unlimited, Basel, Switzerland
1996 Life/Live, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
1995 Galerie Analix Forever, Geneva, Switzerland
1995 Camden Arts Center, London, England
1995 The British Art Show IV, Hayward Gallery for the Arts, London, England
1995 Brilliant ! (New Art From London), Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
1995 Hardcore II, Factual Nonsense, London, England
1995 Minky Manky, South London Gallery, London, England
1995 The Fourth Istanbul Biennial, Art and Culture Foundation, Istanbul, Turkey
1995 Wild Walls, Stedeljik Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1995 Here and Now, Serpentine Gallery, London, England
1995 2+2 and 4 for 4, Karaoke, South London Gallery, London, England
1994 Institute for Cultural Anxiety, I.C.A., London, England
1994 Incertaine Identité, Galerie Analix Forever, Geneva, Switzerland
1994 Corpus Delicti-London in the 90’s, Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen, Denmark
1994 Winter of Love II, P.S. 1, Long Island City, NY
1994 Soggetto-Soggetto, Castello di Rivoli, Torino, Italy
1994 Rien à signaler, Galerie Analix Forever, Geneva, Switzerland
1994 L’Hiver de l’Amour, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
1994 Galerie Raucci/Santamaria, Naples, Italy
1993 Galerie Analix Forever, Geneva, Switzerland
1993 Centre d’art contemporain, Martigny, Switzerland
Literature
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
1997 ‘Screen’, portfolio of 11 prints by 12 artists, Anne Faggionato Gallery, published by Charles Booth-Clibborn
1996 Push Ups, exhibition catalogue, Athens
1996 Live/Life exhibition catalogue, Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
1996 Digital Gardens: A world in Mutation, exhibition catalogue, The Power Plant
1996 Fernbedienung, exhibition catalogue, Grazer Kunstverein
1995 Manifesta One, exhibition catalogue, Rotterdam
1995 Corpus Delicti, Kunstforeeningen, Copenhagen, Denmark, Torben Christensen and Andrew Renton
1995 British Art Show, National Touring Exhibitions, A Hayward Gallery Publication
1995 Istanbul Biennial exhibition catalogue, Istambul Foundation for Culture and Arts, Turkey
1994 Sogetto Sogetto, Castello di Rivoli, Italy, Giorgio Verzotti & Antonella Russo
1993 Aperto, Venice Biennale XLV