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This image depicts an artwork by Nicola Tyson titled "Lips." This artwork was created in 2023 and measures 56" x 45" [HxW] (142.24 x 114.3 cm); 60 ³⁄₄" x 49 ³⁄₄" x 2" [HxWxD] (154.3 x 126.36 x 5.08 cm) framed. Its medium is Graphite on paper.
Nicola Tyson
"Lips", 2023
This image depicts an artwork by Nicola Tyson titled "Figure with Red Curtain." This artwork was created in 2001 and measures 72" x 58" [HxW] (182.88 x 147.32 cm). Its medium is Acrylic on canvas.
Nicola Tyson
"Figure with Red Curtain", 2001
This image depicts an artwork by Nicola Tyson titled "Random Thoughts (....beyond be leaf)." This artwork was created in 2022 and measures 12" x 9" [HxW] (30.48 x 22.86 cm); 18 ³⁄₄" x 15 ³⁄₄" x 1 ³⁄₈" [HxWxD] (47.62 x 40 x 3.49 cm) framed. Its medium is Graphite on paper.
Nicola Tyson
"Random Thoughts (....beyond be leaf)", 2022
Nicole Tyson, Leaves, 2018  72 x 60" [HxW] (182.88 x 152.4 cm) Courtesy of the artist and Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects Photo credit: Jeff McLane
Nicola Tyson
Leaves, 2018
This image depicts an artwork by Nicola Tyson titled "Woman Crying." This artwork was created in 2018 and measures 70" x 41" [HxW] (177.8 x 104.14 cm) paper size; 74" x 45" [HxW] (187.96 x 114.3 cm) framed. Its medium is Graphite on paper.
Nicola Tyson
"Woman Crying", 2018
Nicola Tyson, Self-Portrait: Red Tie, 2016, Acrylic on stretcher, 72" H x 60" W, Photo credit: Evan Jenkin
Nicola Tyson
Self-Portrait: Red Tie, 2016
Nicola Tyson Hear Ring, 2014
Nicola Tyson
Hear Ring, 2014
Nicola Tyson, Nicola Tyson, "Couple Dancing", 2013, Acrylic on unstretched linen, 85" H x 72" W (215.9 cm H x 182.88 cm W), Gallery Inventory #TYS112, Photo credit; Robert Wedemeyer
Nicola Tyson
Couple Dancing, 2013
Nicola Tyson, Figure with Purple Sleeves, 2008, Oil on canvas, 76" H x 60" W, Image Courtesy of Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects and Sadie Coles HQ
Nicola Tyson
Figure with Purple Sleeves, 2008
Nicola Tyson, Blue Knickers, 2008, Oil on linen, 72" H x59", Image courtesy of Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects and Sadie Coles HQ
Nicola Tyson
Blue Knickers, 2008
Nicola Tyson, Untitled (M.S.) #1 - #4, 2013, Graphite on paper, Dimensions variable, Image courtesy of Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects
Nicola Tyson
Untitled (M.S.) #1 - #4, 2013
Nicola Tyson, Untitled (M.S) #1, 2013, Graphite on paper, 17" H x 14" W (43.18 cm H x 35.56 cm W), Image courtesy of Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects
Nicola Tyson
Untitled (M.S) #1, 2013
Nicola Tyson, Untitled (M.S.) #2, 2013, Graphite on paper, 17" H x 14" W (43.18 cm H x 35.56 cm W), Image courtesy of Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects
Nicola Tyson
Untitled (M.S.) #2, 2013
Nicola Tyson, Untitled (M.S) #3, 2013, Graphite on paper, 17" H x 14" W (43.18 cm H x 35.56 cm W), Image courtesy of Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects
Nicola Tyson
Untitled (M.S) #3, 2013
Nicola Tyson, Untitled (M.S.) #4, 2013, Graphite on paper, 17" H x 14" W (43.18 cm H x 35.56 cm W), Image courtesy of Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects
Nicola Tyson
Untitled (M.S.) #4, 2013
Nicola Tyson, Laurie, 2008, Oil on Canvas, 76" H x 60" W, Image Courtesy of Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects and Sadie Coles HQ
Nicola Tyson
Laurie, 2008
Nicola Tyson, Graphite Drawing #1, 2010, Graphite on paper, 25" x 19"
Nicola Tyson
Graphite Drawing #1, 2010
Nicola Tyson, Graphite Drawing #2, 2010, Graphite on paper, 25" x 18"
Nicola Tyson
Graphite Drawing #2, 2010
Nicola Tyson, Graphite Drawing #3, 2010, Graphite on paper, 25" x 18"
Nicola Tyson
Graphite Drawing #3, 2010
Born in London, England
Lives and works in New York, NY
1989
Central/St. Martins School of Art, London, England
1980-1981
St. Martins School of Art, London, England
1979-1980
Chelsea School of Art, London, England

Selected Exhibitions

2022
"Nicola Tyson: A Bit Touched," Nino Mier, Brussels, Belgium
2021
"Holding Pattern," Sadie Coles HQ, London, UK (Link)
2020
"Sense of Self," Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York NY
"Four Paintings," Sadie Coles HQ, London, UK
2017
"Mutual Admiration Society," Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago, IL
"Nicola Tyson," Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis, MO (Link)
"A Tendency to Flock," Sadie Cole’s, London, UK
"Beyond the Trace," The Drawing Room, London, UK
2016
“Works on Paper,” Friedrich Petzel, New York, NY
“Living Dangerously,” two person show with Angela Dufresne, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH
2015
Sadie Coles HQ, London, UK
"Goodbye/Hello,” Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris, France
2014
"Trouble in Happiness," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
2013
Nicola Tyson: Bowie Nights at Billy's Club, London, 1978, Sadie Coles HQ, London, UK
2012
Nicola Tyson: Bowie Nights at Billy's Club, London, 1978, White Columns, NY (Link)
2011
Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, NY
2009
Sadie Coles HQ, London, UK
Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, NY
2007
Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, CA
Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, NY
2006
Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, NY
2005
Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
Sadie Coles HQ, London, UK
2003
Heads, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, NY
Oeuvres Recentes, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris, France
2002
Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, NY
2001
Galeria Carnargo Vilaca, Sao Paulo, Brasil
2000
Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris, France
1999
Sadie Coles HQ, London, UK
1998
Kunsthalle Zurich, Switzerland
Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris, France
1997
Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, NY
1995
Anthony dOffay Gallery, London, UK
Entwistle Gallery, London, UK
Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, NY
1993
Trial Balloon, New York, NY

Group Exhibitions

2023
"Perpetual Portrait," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2022
"Plants Now!" Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
"Women Painting Women," The Modern, Fort Worth, TX
2021
"20 Years," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2020
"100 Drawings from Now," The Drawing Center, New York City, NY
2019
"Pulled in Brooklyn," International Print Center, New York, NY
"This Woman’s Work: Female Artists in the Swindon Collection," Swindon Museum and Art Gallery, Swindon, UK
2018
"ISelf Collection: The Upset Bucket," Whitechapel Gallery, London (cat.)
"Nudes," Sadie Coles HQ, London
"Close: Drawn Portraits," Drawing Room, London
“Cast of Characters,” Bureau of General Services—Queer Division and The LGBT Community Center, New York, NY
2017
"Mutual Admiration Society," Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago
“Petzel at Nanzuka,” Nanzuka, Tokyo, Japan
"SomeBodies,” Petzel Gallery, New York, NY
2016
“Belief and Doubt: Selections from the Francie Bishop Good and David Horvitz Collection, NSU Art Museum, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
“Portraits,” Skarstedt, New York, NY
2014
"New Dawn", curated by Leidy Churchman, Silberkuppe, Berlin
"The Nakeds," the Drawing Room, London, UK
2013
"ICA Off-Site: A Journey Through London's Subculture: 1980s to Now", Old Selfridges Hotel, London
The Cat Show, curated by Rhonda Lieberman, White Columns, New York
Facture and Fidelity: Painting Between Abstraction and Figuration, 1945 2010, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio
2012
Bowie Nights at Billys Club, London, 1978, White Columns, New York I glove U, curated by Ridley Howard, Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, Virginia.
2011
CLAP, Hessel Museum of Art & CCS Galleries, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
A Painting Show, Harris Lieberman, New York, NY
Group Exhibition: Never Let Me Go curated by Terry R. Myers, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago IL
Readykeulous: The Hurtful Healer: The Correspondence Issue, Invisible-Exports, New York, NY
Kick in the Eye, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA
Looking Back / The 6th White Columns Annual, White Columns, New York
Dark Christmas, Leo Koenig, New York
2010
Monster, West Vancouver Museum, Vancouver, Canada
A Site, Teverina Fine Art, Cortona, Italy
Summer Exhibition, room curated by Fiona Rae, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK, (catalog), Nominated for the Charles Wollaston Award
"Vivid: Female Currents in PaintinG, curated by Janet Phelps, Schroeder Romero & Shredder Gallery
Un-home-ly, Oakville Galleries, Toronto, Canada
Culture Show, June 2011, Petzel, New York, NY
2009
From the Sublime to the Ridiculous, Teverina Fine Art, Athens, Greece
Movement Schmoovement, La Mama La Galleria, New York, NY
2008
Kunst Im Heim, Capitain Petzel Gallery, Berlin
Second Thoughts, Hessel Musesum of Art, Center of Curatorial Studies, Bard College, NY
Out of Shape: Stylistic Distortions of the Human Form in Art from the Logan Collection, The Frances Lehnman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY
2007
Exhibitionism: An Exhibition of Exhibitions of Works from the Marieluise Hessel Collection, Center of Curatorial Studies, Bard College, NY
Dont Look. Contemporary Drawings from an Alumnas Collection (Martina Yamin, Class of 1958), Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, MA
At Home, Yvon Lambert Gallery, New York, NY
Stuff: International Contemporary Art from the Collection of Burt Aaron, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, MI
Shared Women, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
The Sorcerers Apprentice, Galleri Faurschou, Copenhagen, Denmark
2006
Drawn into the World, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Donald Baechler, Saint Clair Cemin, George Condo, Nicola Tyson, Rebecca Warren: Works from the Ophiuchus Collection, Hydra Workshops, Greece
Ridykeulous, Participant Inc., New York, NY
2005
Les Grands Spectacles 120 Years of Art and Mass Culture, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Vienna
UBS Openings, Level 3: Material Gestures, Tate Modern, London, UK
Present Perfect, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, NY
Art Now: Confronting Figures, Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, VT
Slices of Life, Austrian Cultural Forum, New York, NY
2004
"Summer Exhibition", room curated by Gary Hume, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
Sexy Beasts 1963 2004, Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York, NY
Esprit, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris, France
2002
Gallery Swap, Sadie Coles H.Q. London, Sommer Contemporary, Tel-Aviv, Israel
Statements (six), Rita Ackerman, Mark Borthwick, Nicola Tyson, a project by Dornbracht, New York, NY
2000
Drawing on the Figure: Works on Paper from the Manilow Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Greater New York, PS 1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, NY
Sadie Coles HQ, London, UK
Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris, France
Blurry Lines, John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI
Full Serve, Curated by Kenny Schacter, New York, NY
1999
New Work: Painting Today Recent Acquisitions, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
What Big Is, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
1998
Pop Surrealism, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
Drawings IV, Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Some Women/Pretty Girls, Florida Atlantic University, Ritter Art Gallery, FL
Galeria Camargo Vilaca, Sao Paulo, Brasil
Chaos, Control, Chaos, Control. You Like? You Like, Curated by Anne Lemieux, Elias Fine Art, Boston, MA
1997
A Decade of Collecting: Recent Acquisitions in Contemporary Drawing, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Project Painting, Basilico Fine Arts & Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York, NY
Best of the Season, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
Package Holiday: Works by British artists in the Ophiucus Collection, curated by Pauline Karpidas and Sadie Coles, Hydra
New Work: Drawings Today, Curated by Janet Bishop and Gary Garrels, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Drawings...An Annual Bi-coastal Invitational, Meyerson and Nowinski, Seattle, WA
1996
Psycho-Morphing, Caren Golden Fine Art, New York, NY
1995
Works on Paper: Paul Myoda and Nicola Tyson, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, NY
In a Different Light, curated by Nayland Blake and Lawrence RInder, University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
1994
The Unsuccess Story, curated by Kenny Schachter 479 Broome Street, New York, NY
Petzel/Borgmann Gallery, New York, NY
I Could Do That, Curated by Kenny Schachter, 109 Greene Street, New York, NY
1993
The Return of the Cadavre Exquis, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
1992
part FANTASY, Trial BALLOON, New York; traveled to:
Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco
The University of British Columbia, Vancouver
The University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, 1994
1991
Queer, Minor Injury, New York, NY
1990
Milch Gallery, London, UK
1989
The Whitechapel Open, The Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
1988
The Whitechapel Open, The Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK

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Public Collections

Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Tate Gallery, London, UK
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C.
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA