| 1960 |
Born in London, England |
| 1979-80 | Chelsea School of Art, London, England |
| 1980-81 | Central St Martin’s School of Art, London, England |
| 1986-89 | Central St Martin’s School of Art, London, England |
| Lives and works in New York NY, USA |
Solo Exhibitions
| 2024 |
Petzel Gallery, New York NY, USA |
| 2022 |
Nicola Tyson: A Bit Touched, Nino Mier Gallery, Brussels, Belgium |
| 2021 |
Holding Pattern, Sadie Coles HQ, Davies Street, London, England |
| 2020 |
Sense of Self, Petzel Gallery, 35 E 67th Street, New York NY, USA Four Paintings, Sadie Coles HQ in collaboration with London Collective on Vortic Collect (online) |
| 2017 |
Beyond the Trace, The Drawing Room, London, England Mutual Admiration Society, Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago IL, USA A Tendency to Flock, Sadie Coles HQ, Davies Street, London, England Paintings and Drawings by Nicola Tyson, CAM Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis MO, USA |
| 2016 |
with Angela Dufresne, Living Dangerously, Reinberger Gallery, CIA Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland OH, USA Works on Paper, Petzel Gallery, 35 E 67th Street, New York NY, USA |
| 2015 |
GOODBYE/HELLO, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris, France |
| 2014 | Trouble in Happiness, Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles CA, USA |
| 2013 | Bowie Nights at Billy's Club, London, 1978,Sadie Coles HQ, Balfour Mews, London, England |
| 2012 | Bowie Nights at Billy's Club, London, 1978, White Columns, New York NY, USA |
| 2011 | Petzel Gallery, New York NY, USA |
| 2009 |
Sadie Coles HQ, South Audley Street, London, England |
| 2007 |
Marc Foxx, Los Angeles CA, USA |
| 2006 |
Petzel Gallery, New York NY, USA |
| 2005 |
Sadie Coles HQ, Heddon Street, London, England The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland (cat.) |
| 2003 |
Heads, Petzel Gallery, 537 W 22nd Street, New York NY, USA Oeuvres Récentes, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris, France |
| 2002 | Petzel Gallery, New York NY, USA |
| 2001 | Galeria Camargo Vilaca, São Paulo, Brazil |
| 2000 | Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris, France |
| 1999 |
Sadie Coles HQ, Heddon Street, London, England Nicola Tyson Paintings and Works on Paper, Petzel Gallery, New York NY, USA |
| 1998 |
Galerie Natalie Obadia, Paris, France Kunsthalle Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland (cat.) |
| 1997 | Petzel Gallery, New York NY, USA (cat.) |
| 1995 |
Anthony D’Offay Gallery, London, England Entwistle Gallery, London, England Petzel Gallery, New York NY, USA |
| 1993 | Trial Balloon, New York NY, USA |
Group Exhibitions
| 2023 |
Beach, Nino Mier Gallery, New York NY, USA |
| 2022 |
Women Painting Women, The Modern, Fort Worth TX, USA, (cat.) omelette papier, Capitain Petzel, Berlin, Germany |
| 2021 |
Subscribe: Artist and Alternative Magazines, 1970-1995, Art Institute Chicago, Chicago IL, USA Am I asking for miracles here?, The House of Saint Barnabas, London, England 20 Years Anniversary Exhibition Part 2, Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles CA, USA |
| 2020 |
100 Drawings from Now, The Drawing Center, New York NY, USA |
| 2019 |
Summer Rental, Rental Gallery, East Hampton NY, USA, curated by Kenny Schachter Flora + Fauna, Sadie Coles HQ, Davies Street, London, England This Woman’s Work, Swindon Museum & Art Gallery, Swindon, England Pulled in Brooklyn, IPCNY International Print Center, New York NY, USA, curated by Roberta Waddell and Samantha Rippner Inaugural Exhibition, Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles CA, USA |
| 2018 |
Close: Drawn Portraits, The Drawing Room, London, England Nudes, Sadie Coles HQ, Davies Street, London, England Cast of Characters, Bureau of General Services—Queer Division and The LGBT Community Center, New York NY, USA ISelf Collection: Bumped Bodies, Whitechapel Gallery, London, England (cat.) New Acquisitions, Swindon Museum, Swindon, England |
| 2017 |
Simon Denny, Sarah Morris, Joyce Pensato, Seth Price, Dirk Skreber, Hiroki Tsukuda, Nicola Tyson, Petzel at Nanzuka Gallery, Tokyo, Japan SomeBodies, Petzel Gallery, 456 W 18th Street, New York NY, USA Drawing Room Biennial 2017, The Drawing Room, London, England |
| 2016 |
Portraits, Skarstedt, New York NY, USA Artistic Differences, ICA Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England Belief and Doubt: Selections from the Francie Bishop Good and David Horvitz Collection, NSU Art Museum, Ft. Lauderdale FL, USA Receipt of a Magical Agent, CCS Bard Center for Curatorial Studies, Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson NY, USA |
| 2015 | The Marked Self: Between Annihilation and Masquerade, Neue Galerie Graz, Graz, Austria |
| 2014 |
The Nakeds, Drawing Room, London, England; De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea, England New Dawn, Silberkuppe, Berlin, Germany Readykeulous by Ridykeulous: This is What Liberation Feels Like™, CAM Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, USA |
| 2013 |
ICA Off-Site: A Journey Through London's Subculture: 1980s to Now, Old Selfridges Hotel, London, England The Cat Show, White Columns, New York NY, USA, curated by Rhonda Lieberman Facture and Fidelity: Painting Between Abstraction and Figuration, 1945 – 2010, WEX Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio, USA |
| 2012 | I glove U, Reynolds Gallery, Richmond VA, USA, curated by Ridley Howard |
| 2011 |
Looking Back / The 6th White Columns Annual, White Columns, New York NY, USA Dark Christmas, Leo Koenig, New York NY, USA Readykeulous: The Hurtful Healer: The Correspondence Issue, Invisible-Exports, New York NY, USA A Painting Show, Harris Lieberman Gallery, New York NY, USA CLAP, CCS Bard Center for Curatorial Studies, Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson NY, USA Never Let Me Go, Rhona Hoffmann, Chigago IL, USA Kick in the Eye, Vox Populi, Philadelphia PA, USA |
| 2010 |
Monster, West Vancouver Art Museum, Vancouver, Canada A Site, Teverina Fine Art, Cortona, Italy Summer Exhibition, RA Royal Academy of Arts, London, England, curated by Fiona Rae Vivid, Schroeder Romero & Shredder Gallery, New York NY, USA Un-home-ly, Oakville Galleries, Toronto, Canada |
| 2009 |
From the Sublime to the Ridiculous, Teverina Fine Art, Athens, Greece Movement Schmoovement, La Mama La Galleria, New York NY, USA (des)Accords Communs, FRAC Normandie Rouen, Haute-Normandie, France Works on Paper, Faggionato Fine Arts, London, England |
| 2008 |
Kunst Im Heim, Capitain Petzel Gallery, Berlin, Germany Second Thoughts, CCS Bard Center for Curatorial Studies, Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson NY, USA Out of Shape: Stylistic Distortions of the Human Form in Art from the Logan Collection, The Frances Lehnman Loeb Art Centre, Poughkeepsie NY, USA |
| 2007 |
group show, Sadie Coles HQ, Heddon Street, London, England The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, Galleri Faurschou, Copenhagen, Denmark Exhibitionism, CCS Bard Center for Curatorial Studies, Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson NY, USA Stuff: International Contemporary Art from the Collection of Burt Aaron, MOCAD Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit MI, USA At Home, Yvon Lambert, New York NY, USA Shared Women, LACE Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles CA, USA |
| 2006 |
Drawn into the World, MCA Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago IL, USA Ridykeulous, participant Inc, New York NY, USA Donald Baechler, Saint Clair Cemin, George Condo, Nicola Tyson, Rebecca Warren: Works from the Ophiuchus Collection, Hydra Workshops, Greece (cat.) The Wonderful Fund- Collecting Art for the New Milleniu, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, West Sussex, England Traits pour traits, Arthothéque de Caen, Caen, France |
| 2005 |
Slices of Life, Austrian Cultural Forum, New York NY, USA Les Grands Spectacles- 120 Years of Art and Mass Culture, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria Present Perfect, Petzel Gallery, 537 W 22nd Street, New York NY, USA Art Now: Confronting Figures, Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury VT, USA |
| 2004 |
Summer Exhibition, RA Royal Academy of the Arts, London, England (cat.) Sexy Beasts 1963 – 2004, ECFA Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York NY, USA Esprit, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris, France |
| 2002 |
Sadie Coles / Gallery Swap, Sommer Contemporary, Tel-Aviv, Israel Statements (six), Dornbracht, New York NY, USA |
| 2000 |
Hoxton HQ, Sadie Coles HQ at Hoxton House, London, England Drawing on the Figure: Works on paper from the Manilow collection, MCA Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago IL, USA Greater New York, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Centre, New York NY, USA Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris, France Blurry Lines, John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan WI, USA Full Serve, Rove, New York NY, USA, curated by Kenny Schacter |
| 1999 |
New Work: Painting Today – Recent Acquisitions, SFMOMA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco CA, USA What Big Is, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington MA, USA Looking at Ourselves: Works by Women Artists from the Logan Collection, SFMOMA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco CA, USA |
| 1998 |
Pop Surrealism, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield CT, USA Drawings IV, Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles CA, USA Some Women/Pretty Girls, Ritter Art Gallery, FAU Florida Atlantic University FL, USA Chaos, Control, Chaos, Control. You Like? You Like?, Elias Fine Art, Boston MA, USA, curated by Anne Lemieux Galeria Camargo Vilaca, São Paulo, Brazil Art of Four Decades: 1958 – 1998, SFMOMA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco CA, USA |
| 1997 |
A decade of collecting: selected recent acquisitions in modern drawing, MoMA Museum of Modern Art, New York NY, USA Project Painting, Basilico Fine Arts and Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York NY, USA (cat.) Best of the Season, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield CT, USA Package Holiday: Works by British Artists in the Ophiuchus Collection, Hydra Workshops, Greece, curated by Sadie Coles and Pauline Karpidas (cat.) New Work: Drawings Today, SFMOMA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco CA, USA, curated by Janet Bishop and Gary Garrels Drawings…an annual bi-coastal invitational, Meyerson and Nowinski, Seattle WA, USA |
| 1996 | Psycho-morphing, Caren Golden Fine Art, New York NY, USA |
| 1995 |
Works on paper: Paul Myoda and Nicola Tyson, Petzel Gallery, New York NY, USA Revealing Desire, Christina Rose Gallery, New York NY, USA In a Different Light, University Art Museum, Berkeley CA, USA, curated by Nayland Blake and Lawrence Rinder |
| 1994 |
The Unsuccess Story, 479 Broome Street, New York NY, USA, curated by Kenny Schachter Petzel/Borgmann Gallery, New York NY, USA I Could Do That, 109 Greene Street, New York NY, USA, curated by Kenny Schachter part FANTASY, University of British Columbia, Vancouver & The University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada |
| 1993 |
The Return of the Cadavre Exquis, The Drawing Centre, New York NY, USA part FANTASY, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco CA, USA |
| 1992 | part FANTASY, Trial Balloon, New York NY, USA |
| 1991 | Queer, Minor Injury, New York NY, USA |
| 1990 | Milch Gallery, London, England |
| 1989 | The Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, England |
| 1988 | The Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, England |
Public Collections
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Tate, London, England SFMOMA San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco CA, USA Walker Art Center, Minneapolis MI, USA MoMA Museum of Modern Art, New York NY, USA Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia PA, USA MCA Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago IL, USA NMWA National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC, USA Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington DC, USA Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro NC, USA Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York NY, USA UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles CA, USA |