Nick Goss
Nick Goss (b. 1981, Bristol, UK) is an Anglo/Dutch artist. He layers personal and collective history on the canvas through scenes of confident accretion and erasure, constructing and reconstructing phenomena that never had physical form. His paintings clearly summon the space of dreams, where time, space and identity slip, but the sense of a journey propels artist and viewer forward, a concept which is mirrored in his sound-based work sampling natural & interlinking ecosystems. Goss has been the subject of four solo exhibitions at Josh Lilley, along with multiple solo shows at Simon Preston, New York, and Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin. His first institutional survey, “Morley’s Mirror” at Pallant House, Chichester, UK, was accompanied by a catalogue co-published with Koenig Books, London. Goss’ work is held in national collections including the Victoria & Albert Museum, Zabludowicz Collection and Pallant House. Institutions in the US include The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Dallas Museum of Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland.
Nick Goss lives and works in London.
Education
2009, MA Fine Art, Royal Academy Schools,
2006, BA Fine Art, Slade School of Fine Art
Solo Exhibitions
2024
Isle of Thanet, Perrotin, Paris
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 Exhibitions
2024
Dead Can Dance, CFA Basel, Basel
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
Press
CV
Exhibitions
Frieze London
Solo Show
Nine Mile Burn
Solo Show
Stains on a Decade
Group Show
Preparing for What
Group Show
Independent Brussels
Solo Show
De Ramp
Solo Show
A New Kitchen Sink
Group Show
Water Biscuit
Group Show
Green Lanes
Solo Show
4 Painters 10 Works
Group Show
Something New
Group Show
Tin Drum
Solo Show
Gifted
Group Show
Veverka
Solo Show
Daily Miracles
Group Show