Mat Collishaw Biography 1966 Born in Nottingham, England 1986 Trent Polytechnic, Nottingham, England 1989 BA Fine Art, Goldsmiths College, University of London, England Lives and works in 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 Much of his work contains historical and art-historical references to the interaction between nature and culture.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. Selected 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 T ableaux 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 Links to further information