Nick Evans (born 1976 in Mufulira, Zambia) graduated from the Environmental Art course at The Glasgow School of Art in 2000, spending a year of this study at the Royal College of Fine Arts in Stockholm. Important exhibitions have included: /prospekt/ Funktion / Disfunktion – Kunstzentrum Glasgow, Neues Museum Nürnberg, Nuremberg (2013); Solar Eyes, Tramway, Glasgow (2013); Primary School, Inverleith House, Edinburgh (2008); and Abstract Machines, Tate St Ives, Cornwall (2006). In 2011 he was awarded the National Galleries of Scotland inaugural Artists’ Fellowship Award. Currently he is undertaking an AHRC research studentship at Northumbria University. He lives and works in Glasgow.
Nick Evans
Born in 1976, Mufulira, Zambia
Lives & works in Glasgow
Education
2002 – 2004
Committee Member, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow
1997 – 2000
BA (Hons) Fine Art, Sculpture and Environmental Art, Glasgow School of Art, (First
Class, with distinction for dissertation.)
1999
Royal College of Fine Arts, Stockholm (exchange).
Forthcoming & Current Exhibitions
2016
‘Ur Phenomenon’, Northern Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sunderland (with Lorna
McIntyre), (April)
Mary Mary, Glasgow (November)
2015
‘Plaster: Casts & Copies’, The Hepworth Wakefield (May 2015 – May 2016)
Solo Exhibitions
2014
‘The White Whale’, McManus Art Gallery & Museum, Dundee
2013
‘Solar Eyes’, Tramway, Glasgow
2011
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
‘Flesh and Bones’, Liste 16, Basel
2010
‘Anti-Autonome’, Mary Mary, Glasgow
2009
‘Use History Autonome’, Washington Garcia, Glasgow (exhibition re-presented at
Eigse Carlow Arts Festival, Ireland)
2008
‘Primary School’, Inverleith House, Edinburgh
2007
‘Rational Slab’, Mary Mary, Glasgow
2006
‘Abstract Machines’, Tate Gallery, St.Ives, Cornwall
2005
‘Some Newer Formalisms’, Sorcha Dallas, Glasgow
2002
‘Remember Old Pineapple Face’, Glasgow Project Room
‘Lumumba is Dead’, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow
Selected Group Exhibitions
2015
‘Natural Selection’, Galerie 5, Biblioteque Universitaire, Belle Beille, Angers, France
‘Devils in the Making,’ Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow
2014
‘New Order: British Art Now II’, Saatchi Gallery, London
2013
‘Funktion / Disfunktion’, Neues Museum, Nuremberg
‘In form express and admirable (in a sense lying, in a sense not)’, Camberwell
Space, Camberwell College of Arts, London
‘De Belles Sculptures Contemporaines’, Hab Galerie, Nantes (with Frac des Pays de
la Loire)
2012
‘Carpets of Distinction’, The Dovecot, Edinburgh
‘You, Me, Something Else’, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow
2011
‘The Erratics’, Mackintosh Museum, Glasgow
‘The Builders’, Market Gallery, Glasgow
2010
‘Zwischenraum: Space Between’, Kunstverein, Hamburg
‘Little Magazine’, SWG3, Glasgow
2005
‘Liberation de L’aesthethique’, The Old Jail, Tobago Street, Glasgow
Tobias Buche / Nick Evans, Mary Mary Project Space, Glasgow
2004
‘Red Bus Go’, 273 High Street, Glasgow
‘PILOT 1 International Art Forum’, Limehouse Town Hall, London
‘From Here to Eternity and Back Again’, Generator Projects, Dundee
‘Britannia Works’, Xippas Gallery & Ileana Tounta Gallery, Athens
2001
‘No Place Uncharted’, The Town Mill Gallery, Lyme Regis, Dorset
‘October’, Public Art Project, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow
‘East of Eden’, Spacex, Exeter
‘Return of the Rural’, 291 Gallery, London
‘Under Construction’, G39, Mill Lane, Cardiff
2000
‘Amateur View’, Market, Glasgow
‘The International Festival of the Owl’, Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff
‘Art at the Macbeth’, The Hoxton Distillery, London
Publications
2016
Ur Phenomenon, a conversation between Nick Evans, Lorna McIntyre and George
Vasey, Northern Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sunderland.
2014
Generation: 25 Years of Contemporary Art in Scotland, National Galleries of
Scotland and Glasgow Life.
New Order II, British Art Now, Saatchi Gallery, London.
Funktion Dysfunktion, Neues Museum, Nuremburg, Verlag fur Moderne Kunst.
2013
Arts Council Collection New Acquisitions 2012-13, Arts Council Collection at
Southbank Centre.
2011
Oceania, Dr Julia Kelly, Exhibition Text, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
Flesh and Bones, Jonathan Griffin, Exhibition Text, Liste 16
2010
Open Frequency, Stacey Baldrick, Axis Web
Anti-Autonome, Laurence Figgis, Exhibition text, Mary Mary
2009
Use History Autonome, Susannah Thompson, Exhibition text, Washington Garcia
2006
Abstract Machines, Tate Publishing
2004
Brittania Works, British Council
Awards and Residencies
2015
Outset/Bothy Project residency, Isle of Eigg, Scotland
2012
Creative Scotland Quality Production Award
Cove Park/Artists Initiative Tokyo residency, Tokyo
2011
Artists Fellowship, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and
Creative Scotland.
2008
Residency, European Ceramic Work Centre, The Netherlands
Scottish Arts Council Artist Bursary
2007
Residency, Scottish Sculpture Workshop
2006
Hope Scott Trust award
Residency, Tate St Ives, Cornwall
2003
Cove Park Springboard Residency
2002
Grizedale Arts, Cumbria
Writing
2015
‘The Reproduction of Life’, Bothy Project, (http://www.thebothyproject.org/nick-evansthe-
reproduction-of-life/)
‘Like the Island’, exhibition text, ‘Everything Sensor’ – Caitlin Merrett King, Isabella
Widger and Hannah Reynolds, Glasgow Project Room
2014
‘Gregor Wright, Paradigm Shift’, exhibition text, ‘Dinosaur Expert I’m Feeling Lucky’,
the CCA, Glasgow
’60 Scandals’, Glasgow School of Art Department of Painting and Printmaking
degree show catalogue.
‘Charlie Hammond, Best Value’, (http://charliehammondartist.com/written-things/)
2012
‘Scotland Can Make It! – Katy West’ (https://scotlandcanmakeit.com/creators/katywest/
full)
2009
‘The Lighthouse Keeper’, exhibition text, ‘Clipping Roses’ – Gregor Wright, The
Duchy, Glasgow
2002
‘Tired of the Soup de Jour?’ Variant Magazine,
(http://www.variant.org.uk/16texts/Soup_du_Jour.html)
Public Collections
I have work in the following public collections:
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh;
Neues Museum, Nuremburg;
Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester;
Arts Council Collection;
Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow;
Frac des Pays de la Loire.
Talks, Workshops, Events
I have given artist talks, workshops or contributed to events at the following venues:
Dundee Contemporary Art;
McManus Art Gallery and Museum, Dundee;
Neues Museum, Nuremburg;
The Old Hairdresser, Glasgow (with Neil Bickerton);
Tramway, Glasgow; Artist’s Initiative Tokyo;
Arches, Glasgow (with Torsten Lauschmann);
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh;
Market Gallery, Glasgow;
Hamburger Kunstverein;
Cove Park, Argyll and Bute;
Cornwall College, Redruth;
Falmouth School of Art;
Transmission Gallery, Glasgow;
October, St Vincent Street, Glasgow;
Spacex, Exeter;
G39, Cardiff;
Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff (with the Owl Project).
Teaching
I have worked as a visiting lecturer at:
Glasgow School of Art,
Royal Academy Schools,
Cornwall College.