Born in 1980
Lives and works in London, United Kingdom
British artist Nick Goss’s paintings explore the tangible and psychological experience of space. Working with tonal washes and faded colors, he creates spaces that endure within memory and fantasy where space and time are fleeting and irrelevant. Appearing as memories from old photographs, his paintings have elements that are faded into invisibility or pronounced with precise detail. Demonstrating his fascination for the uncanny, his disjointed images force the viewer to form their own interpretation based on their own experiences. The motif of erasure prevails throughout his work with the raw material primarily exposed to depict fragile and visceral settings. He aims for his images of landscapes or interiors to not be defined by certainty but rather to exist in between reality and memory.
education
2009
- MA Fine Art, Royal Academy Schools
2006
- BA Fine Art, Slade School of Fine Art
solo shows
2023
- Smickel Inn, Balcony of Europe, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh
2022
- The Undercurrents, Matthew Brown, Los Angeles
- Mud Angels, Thelma Hubert, Devon
2021
- Margaritas at The Mall, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin
2020
-Nine Mile Burn, Josh Lilley, London
2019
- Morley’s Mirror, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester
2018
- Dolphin Express, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin
2017
- De Ramp, Josh Lilley, London
2016
- Bluing, Simon Preston Gallery, New York
2015
- Green Lanes, Josh Lilley, London
2013
- Like Pineapples In A Greenhouse, Simon Preston Gallery, New York
2012
- Tin Drum, Josh Lilley, London
2011
- Herz Man Sky, Simon Preston Gallery, New York
2010
- Veverka, Josh Lilley, London
2006
- Paths in the Snow. New paintings by Nick Goss, Image Contemporary Art Gallery, Arezzo
group shows
2023
- Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
- IMAGINE YOU ARE DRIVING, Susanna Orlando Gallery, Pietrasanta
- Days Like These, DE LEÓN, Bath
2021
- Dear John, Adams & Ollman, Portland
2020
- Hommage A Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin
2019
- Rainforest Action Network Exhibition, Eccleston Project Space, London
- Stains on a Decade, Josh Lilley, London
- Preparing for What, Josh Lilley, London
2017
- Botánica, Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco
- Group Show 2017, Tannery Arts, London
- Currents, Lin & Lin Gallery, Taipei
- A New Kitchen Sink, Josh Lilley, London
2016
- Rhythm & Depiction, Centre for Recent Drawing, London
- A Place of Our Time, Palazzo Capris, Turin
- Water Biscuit, Josh Lilley, London
- What are we gonna paint?, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam
- Bread and Jam IV: Modern Mirror, 52 Whitbread Road, London
2015
- Tutti Frutti, Turps Gallery, London
2014
- Inaugural Exhibition, Sherrick and Paul, Nashville
- A Union of Voices, Horatio Jr Gallery, London
- Painting about Painting, Simmons & Simmons, London
- Here There and Something In between (Project 1), Horatio Jr Gallery, London
- Tan Lines, The Drawing Room, London
- Colony Room, Simon Preston Gallery, New York
- 4 Painters, 10 Works, Josh Lilley, London
- Beyond The Process, Sammlung Lenikus, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck
2013
- Chapter, Austin Forum, London
- Drawing Biennial, The Drawing Room, London
- Forward Thinking, Horatio Jr Gallery, London
- Beastly Hall, Hall Place and Gardens, Kent
2012
- Strata, Sammlung Lenikus, Vienna
- Never Ever Ever Land, Anna Kustera, New York
- Forward Thinking, Island Queen, London
- Needle in a Cloud, FOLD Gallery, London
2011
- Friendship of the Peoples, Simon Oldfield Gallery, London
- Two person presentation (with Junior Boakye-Yiadom) Hong Kong International 11
- Primitive Accumulation, Fold Gallery, London
2010
- Gifted, Josh Lilley Gallery, London
- Newspeak: British Art Now, Saatchi Gallery, London
- Ghosts, Luce Gallery, Turin
- Dull as I am, I Hope to Live by these Lines, Simon Preston Gallery, New York
- Nick and Phil Goss, Centre for Recent Drawing, London
- Jerwood Contemporary Painters, Jerwood Space, London, & national tour
2009
- Four New Sensations, A Foundation, London
- Daily Miracles, Josh Lilley Gallery, London
2008
- Saatchi Online at Concrete and Glass Festival, Beach Blanket Babylon, London
- Robert Dowling, Tim Ellis, Nick Goss, Michael Pybus, Jia Jia Wang, Alexandre Pollazzon Ltd, London
- Falling out of the Apple Tree, Wilde Gallery, BerlinThrough a Glass, Darkly, Kenny Schachter ROVE, London Premiums 2008, Selected work for Royal Academy Schools Interim Show
2007
- The Islanders, Nettie Horn Gallery, London
2006
- Art Below Zero, Westbourne Studios, London
- England’s Dreaming, British Landscape Painting, 7 Bedford Row, London
2005
Morpho Eugenia, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, San Marino
public collections
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
- Dallas Museum of Art
- Victoria & Albert Museum, London
- Zabludowicz Collection, London
- Pallant House, West Sussex
- Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland
- Marciano Art Foundation Los Angeles
- Arts Council Collection, UK