John Nixon

born 1949 Sydney, Australia
lives and works in Melbourne, Australia

Education
1967/68 Studied Preston Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Australia
1969/70 Studied National Gallery of Victoria Art School, Melbourne (Diploma of Art)
1971 Studied State College of Victoria, Melbourne (Diploma of Education)

Recent Solo Exhibitions
2004 Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
2003 Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney
2003 Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne
2003 Goddard de Fiddes Gallery, Perth
2003 John Nixon/Christoph Dahlhausen, Galerie Eva Mack, Stuttgart, Germany
2003 Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
2002 Galerie Mark Muller, Zurich, Switzerland
2002 Espace d'Art Contemporain, Demigny, France
2002 John Nixon/Stephen Bambury, Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand
2002 Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
2002 Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney
2002 ARCO, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Madrid, Spain
2002 John Nixon/Martin Creed, The Physics Room, Christchurch, New Zealand
2002 John Nixon/Stephen Bambury, CNR, Melbourne
2002 Zero, I'infini, Paris, France
2001 Piero Manzoni John Nixon, DaimlerChrysler Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
2001 Gerber/Nixon, Australian Embassy, Tokyo, Japan
2001 Goddard de Fiddes Gallery, Perth
2001 Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne
2001 John Nixon/Martin Creed, A painting and a sculpture, 1st Floor artists and writers space, 2001 Melbourne Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel, Switzerland
2001 Galerie Evelyne Canus, Paris
2001 Piero Manzoni John Nixon, Stiftung fur Konkrete Kunst, Reutlingen, Germany
2001 John Nixon Retrospective, Stiftung fur Konkrete Kunst, Reutlingen, Germany
2001 Galerie Möller Witt, Arhus, Denmark
2001 Showcase, Wellington, New Sealand
2001 P.S. Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2001 John Nixon/Martin Creed, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney
2000 John Nixon/Mike Parr, Conny Deitzschold, Australian Contemporary Art Projects, Koln, Germany
2001Piero Manzoni John Nixon, Herning Kunstmuseum, Denmark
2001Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney
2001John Nixon, Marco Fusinato, Solver, Base/Progetti per I'Arte, Florence, Italy Stadtlisches 2001Kunstmuseum, Singen, Germany
2001John Nixon/Stephen Bambury, Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand
2001Galerie Soren Houmann, Copenhagen, Denmark

Recent Group Exhibitions
2004 Australian Centre for Concrete Art print portfolio, Goddard de Fiddes Gallery, Perth
2004 Conversations, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
2004 Bram Donaldson Jenkins Nixon Reiter-Raabe, Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
2004 The DaimlerChrysler Collection in South Africa - tour South Africa
2003 Breaking the Charmed Circle, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
2003 Supernova, Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
2003 ARCO, Goddard de Fiddes Gallery, Madrid, Spain
2003 Basel Art Fair, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Basel. Switzerland
2003 Small Colours, Galerie Eva Mack. Stuttgart. Germany
2003 10 Years. Sarah Collier Gallery. Sydney
2003 The DaimlerChrysler Collection. Detroit Institute of Arts Detroit, USA
2003 The DairnlerChrysler Collection. Museum fur Neuer Kunst ZKM Karlsruhe, Germany
2003 MCA Unpacked 11, Museum of Contemporary Art. Sydney
2003 Picnic. Melbourne's Living Museum of the West Inc., Melbourne
2002 Fieldwork. Australian Art 1968-2002. The lan Potter Cenlre. National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
2002 Veczoennections Contemporary Artists from Australia, House of Croatian Artists, Zagreb, Croatia
2002 Minimalism + After, DaimlerChrysler Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
2002 Yellow, David Pestorius, Brisbane
2002 2 Step. Centre for Contemporary Non-Ob|ec(ive Art. Brussels, Belgium
2002 Abstract, Galerie Evelyne Canus, Basel, Switzerland
2002 Basel Art Fair, Galerie Evelyne Canus, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
2002 Object Non ldentifie. Hans Trudel-Haus Galerie, Baden, Switzerland
2002 Amplified Abstraction. Chapel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2002 Kyle Jenkins, Marco Fusinato, John Nixon, CNR, Melbourne
2002 Supergroup, Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
Print Exhibition. Lesley Kreisler Gallery, New Plymoulh, New Zealand
2002 Paperwork 2, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney
2002 10 year anniversary, Goddard de Fiddes Gallery. Perth
2001 Jenkins, Fusinato, Nixon, PS, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2001 John Nixon, Jan van der Ploeg, Heimo Zobernig, Galerie Heimer und Partner, Berlin, Germany
2001 Julian Dashper, Milan Mrkusich, John Nixon, Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellingion, New Zealand
2001 Basel Art Fair. Sarah Collier Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
2001 Berlin Art Fair. David Pestorius, Berlin, Germany
2001 Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
2001 Collection, Stiftung fur Konkrete Kunst, Reutingen, Germany
2001 Artissima Art Fair, Galerie Möller Witt, Torino, llaly
2001 MCA Unpacked, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
2000 Monochromes. University Art Museum, Brisbane, Auslralia
2000 9 1/2. Villa Merkel, Esslingen, Germany
2000 Spitting and Biting Ten Contemoorary Artists and the Print, Monash University Gallery, 2000 Melbourne Goddard de Fiddes Gallery. Perth
2000 Orange/Blue, Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand Gold!.
2000 Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2000 Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
2000 Koln Art Fair, Laure Genillard Gallery, Koln, Germany
2000 Contemporary Photographic Art from Australia (Zeifgenössische Fotokunst aus Australien). Neuer
2000 Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany, (touring)
2000 Basel Art Fair. Sarah Cottier Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
2000 Intercourse, an exhibition in the alley off Jersey Avenue, Toronto, Canada
2000 avant-gardism for children, University of Queensland, Monash University Gallery
2000 Scratch, Gallerie Soren Houmann, Copenhagen, Denmark
2000 Pink. PareI, Amsterdam, The Nelherlands
2000 From Rags to Riches, Foundation de la Tapisseries des Arts, Tournai, Belgium PS1999, 2000 Archipel Apeldoorn, The Netherlands
2000 ARCOart fair. Sarah Cottier Gallery, Madrid, Spain
2000 Silver & Shining, The Box, Turin, Italy
2000 Floor Show, Den Frei, Copenhagen, Denmark
2000 Spin Me Round. Metro Arts, Brisbane

Editor and Publisher
2 International Art. no I-6 1995 - 2002. Sydney - Melbourne
Axe -A Specialised Rock Music Journal. Edited by Marco Fusinato and John Nixon, no 1-20. 1998 - 1999, Sydney
Material. Edited by John Nixon, no 1-52. 1998, Sydney
Downbeat!, Melbourne Trad Jazz ot the Early 60s, Compiled by John Nixon. Victorian Jazz Archive, Melbourne. 2003
Sydney Colour-Field Painting 1965-1969. Compiled by John Nixon, 2004. Melbourne
Circle Records. Record Label founded by Julian Daspher and John Nixon. Sydney-Auckland. 1996 - ongoing
Freeway Sound. Record Label founded by Marco Fusinato and John Nixon. Melbourne. 1999 - ongoing
John Nixon and Marco Fusinato are the members of the Noise Music group Solver. 1998 - ongoing Research pioject:The Domestic Architecture of Herbert Tisher during the 1950's and 1960’s, in progress

Bibliography
John Nixon, Thesis: Selected Works from 1968-1993, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, 1994
John Nixon, Experimental Painting Workshop: Monochrome 1968-1996, Canberra Contemporary Art Space,
Canberra, 1996
John Nixon, EP+OW, Wellington City Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand, 1997
John Nixon, EPW:Orange, Esbjerg Kunstmuseum, Denmark, 1998
John Nixon, David Pestorius Gallery, Berlin, Germany, 1998
Piero Manzoni John Nixon, Herning Kunstmuseum, Denmark, 2000
John Nixon, Nummer 11, Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel Switzerland 2001
John Nixon, EPW:Orange 1995-2001, Australian Embassy, Tokyo, Japan, 2001
John Nixon, EPW2004, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne 2004
Yearbook, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney, 1994 - 2003
Kunstforum, International, no.129, 1995, Germany
Fort! Da! Co-operations, Villa Merkel, Esslingen, Germany, 1997
On Dialogue, Contemporary Australian Art, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, Germany, 1997
Geometric Painting in Australia 1941-1997, University Art Museum, University of Queensland, Brisbane, 1997
Clemenger Contemporary Art Award, Heide, Melbourne, 1999
Monochromes, University Art Museum, University of Queensland, Brisbane, 2000
Floor Bag, DenFrei, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2000
Zeitgenossische Fotokunst aus Australien, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany, 2000
Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand, 2002
Minimalism and After, Sammlung DaimlerChrysler, Berlin, Germany, 2002
engrossen detail worke von A bis Z. Stiftung fur Konkrete Kunst, Reutlingen. Germany, 2002
Public Projects, Australian Centre for Concrete Art 2002-2004, Fremantle, 2004

Collections
Nixon Depot 1968- 2004, Melbourne
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Australian National Gallery, Canberra
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Chartwell Collection, Hamilton, New Zealand Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
Stiftung fur Konkrete Kunst, Reutingen, Germany DaimlerChrysler Collection, Berlin, Germany Herning Kunstmuseum, Denmark
Kunstmuseum Esberg, Denmark
MAB Corp, Melbourne
Griffith University, Brisbane
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
Espace d'Art Contemporain, Demigny, France
West Farmers Collection, Perth
Parks Victoria, Melbourne
City of St Kilda, Melbourne
Smorgon Collection, Melbourne
Myer Collection, Melbourne
National Gallery of Contemporary Art, Seoul. Korea
Queensland University Art Museum, Brisbane
The Artists Museum, Lodz, Poland
Museum Sztuki, Lodz, Poland
Fonds National d'Art Contemporain, Paris, France
University of Melbourne Museum of Art, Melbourne
Monash University Collection, Melbourne
Deakin University Collection, Geelong
Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Furkart, Furka, Switzerland
Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane
Reader's Digest Collection, New York, USA
Australian Centre for Concrete Art, Fremantle
Private collections in Melbourne, Sydney, Canberra, Brisbane, Perth, London, New York, Berlin, Auckland, Nagoya, Osaka, Tubingen, Cologne, Nice, Zagreb, Brussels, Copenhagen. Phoenix, Furka. Los Angeles, Zurich, Amsterdam. Stuttgart, Geneva, Bonn, Reutlingen, Wellington, Christchurch