Mat Collishaw

“compelling work which is seductively beautiful, yet hard hitting, bringing into question our fixed way of seeing things”

- Angel Greenham

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Mat Collishaw is a key figure in the generation of British artists who emerged from Goldsmiths’ College in the late 1980s. He participated in Freeze (1988) and since his first solo exhibition in 1990 has exhibited widely internationally.

Collishaw makes work that envelops the viewer in a twilight world poised between the alluring and the revolting, the familiar and the shocking, the poetic and the morbid. With a visual language that embraces diverse media, the beauty of Collishaw’s work is compelling – seductive, captivating, hypnotic – yet repelling as we perceive the darker fantasies within. A repulsion triggered not by what we see, but by our innate response to it. Something between beautiful and abject.

Collishaw’s work can be found in public collections globally, including; Tate Gallery, London; Arter Foundation, Istanbul; British Council Collection, London; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna, Torino; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; Museum of Old and New Art, New South Wales; Olbricht Collection, Berlin.

Education

Goldsmiths College, London

Select Solo Exhibitions

2020 | Mat Collishaw, Djanogly Gallery, Lakeside Arts, Nottingham

2019-20 | The End of Innocence, Fundació Sorigué, Lleida

2019 | The Nerve Rack, Ushaw College, Durham

2019 | Deep State of Rapture (with Mustafa Hulusi), Page Gallery, Seoul

2019 | Dialogues, Sorigue Foundation, Madrid

2018-19 | The Grinders Cease, Blain|Southern, Berlin

2018 | The Mask of Youth, Queen’s House, Greenwich, London

2018 | Standing Water, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague

2018 | The Centrifugal Soul, Castle Howard, Yorkshire

2018 | Thresholds, National Science and Media Museum, Bradford

2018 | Yapı Kredi Kültür Sanat Yayıncılık A.Ş, Istanbul

2018 | Night Hunter, Robilant + Voena, St. Moritz

2018 | Albion, Gary Tatintsian Gallery, Moscow

2017 | Thresholds, Somerset House, London; Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery; Lacock Abbey, Wiltshire

2017 | The Centrifugal Soul, Blain|Southern London

2016 | Fountains Relief, Fountains Abbey & Studley Royal, North Yorkshire

2016 | The New Art Gallery, Walsall

2015 | In Camera, Library of Birmingham

2014 | Black Mirror, Galleria Borghese, Rome

2013 | This Is Not An Exit, Blain|Southern, London

2013 | Bass Museum of Art, Florida

2013 | Pino Pascali Museum Foundation, Bari

2013 | Mat Collishaw: Afterimage, Arter, Istanbul

2010 | Magic Lantern, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Select Group Exhibitions

2019 | 24/7 A WAKE-UP CALL FOR OUR NON-STOP WORLD, Somerset House, London

2019 | Silences, Musée Rath, Musée d’arts et d’histoire, Geneva

2019 | Fire: Flashes to Ashes in British Art 1692-2019, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol

2019 | Le Laboratoire de la Nature, Le Fresnoy, Tourcoing

2019 | In the Shadow of Forward Motion, Zabludowicz Collection, London

2018 | Through The Looking Glass, COB Gallery, Camden, London

2018 | Beyond 2001, Espacio Fundación Telefónica, Madrid

2018 | Enchanted Garden, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle

2018 | NGORONGORO II, Lehderstrasse 34, Berlin

2018 | Il Terzo Giorno, Palazzo del Governatore, Parma

2017 | J.F.Millet, retrospective, Millet – USA, Palais Beaux-Arts, Lille

2017 | We Are Not Alone, Athr Gallery, Jeddah

2017 | Enjoy (curated by Danilo Eccher), Chiostro del Bramante, Rome

2017 | Dominion, New Media Gallery, New Westminster

2017 | Mirror Mirror, Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts (MUDAC), Lausanne

2017 | Luther and the Avant-Garde, Altes Gefägnis, Wittenberg

2017 | Creating the Countyside, Compton Verney, Warwickshire

2017 | Glasstress, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Florida

2017 | Naturalia (curated by Danny Moynihan), Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York

2016 | Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda

2016 | On the Origins of Art, Museum of Old and New Art (MONA), Hobart Tasmania

2016 | Les Photau nales 2016: LOVE STORIES, Beauvais, Le Quadrilatere, Paris

2016 | Ron Arad’s 720°, Singapore International Festival of the Arts, The Meadow, Gardens by the Bay, Singapore

2016 | Festival of Images, Vevey

2016 | Curtain Call, Roundhouse, London

2016 | Daydreaming with Stanley Kubrick, Somerset House, London

2016 | Sculpture in the City, London

2016 | I Prefer Life, Weserburg Museum fur Moderne Kunst, Bremen

2016 | A Weed is a Plant out of Place, Lismore Castle Arts, Co. Waterford

2016 | SerpentiForm, Museo di Roma, Rome

2015-17 | Nature Morte, Guildhall Art Gallery, London; Muzeum Narodowe, Wrocław; Konsthallen-Bohusläns Museum; and Hå gamle prestegard

2015 | Na wspak (ciała i ogrody), 9th Biennale of Photography, Arsenal Municipal Gallery, Poznań

2015 | SUBSTANCE, Timothy Taylor, London

2015 | L’inconscient pictòric (the pictorial unconscious), Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya (MNAC), Barcelona

2015 | In Search of the Miraculous, Newlyn Art Gallery, Penzance

2015 | SNAP, Art at the Aldeburgh Festival

2015 | Gallery of Wonder, Northumberland; Woodhorn; Powburn; Spittal; Falstone; Alwinton; and Newcastle

2015 | Glasstress 2015 Gotika, Istituto Veneto di Scienze Lettere ed Arti, Palazzo Franchetti, Venice

2015 | NGORONGORO – Artist Weekend, Studiobuildings, Lehderstrasse, Berlin-Weissensee

2015 | “The time … and there was time”, from Helga de Alvear Collection, Fundación Helga de Alvear, Cáceres

2015 | Rack ‘em Up: British Contemporary Editions 1990 – 2000, Shapero Modern, London

2015 | The Omnivore’s Dilemma: Visualized, University of Connecticut Contemporary Art Galleries, Mansfield

2015 | How to Construct a Time Machine, MK Gallery, Milton Keynes

2014 | Fashion and Art, Bass Museum of Art, Miami

2014 | Back to Eden, Museum of Biblical Art, New York

2013 | Victoriana, The Guildhall Art Gallery, London

2013 | GLASSTRESS: White Light/White Heat, Contemporary Artists & Glass, collateral Event of 55th Venice Biennale, Venice

2012 | About Caravaggio (curated by Anna Imponente), Museo Tuscolano – Scuderie Aldobrandini, Frascati Rome

2012 | 720°, as part of Ron Arad’s Curtain Call Project, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem

2012 | Made in Britain, Contemporary Art from the British Council Collection, Benaki Museum, Athens

2012 | Out of Focus: Photography, Saatchi Gallery, London

2012 | Otherwordly – Optical Delusions and Small Realities, Museum of Arts and Design, New York

2011 | 12th International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul