John Nixon
b. 1949 Sydney, Australia / d. 2020 Melbourne, Australia
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John Nixon, Flag II, 2008-2013, Enamel on MDF, 17.5 x 23.5 inches, #JN04
John Nixon, Flag IV, 2008-2013, Enamel on MDF, 17.5 x 23.5 inches, #JN06
John Nixon, Flag I, 2008-2013, Enamel on MDF, 17.5 x 23.5 inches, #JN03
John Nixon, Flag III, 2008-2013, Enamel on MDF, 17.5 x 23.5 inches, #JN05
John Nixon, Flag V, 2008-2013, Enamel on MDF, 17.5 x 23.5 inches, #JN07
John Nixon, Flag VI, 2008-2013, Enamel on MDF, 17.5 x 23.5 inches, #JN08
John Nixon, Black Monochrome, 2013-2014, Enamel on 2 canvases, 23.5 x 19.5 inches, #JN11
John Nixon, Black Monochrome, 2013-2014, Enamel on 2 canvases, 19.5 x 23.5 inches, #JN09
John Nixon, Black Monochrome, 2013-2014, Enamel on 2 canvases, 23.5 x 19.5 inches, #JN12
John Nixon, Red Monochrome, 2013-2014, Enamel on 2 canvases, 23.5 x 19.5 inches, #JN10
John Nixon, Orange Monochrome -Briar Hill, 2002, Enamel on burlap over panel, 24.25 x 24.25 inches, #JN01
John Nixon, Orange Monochrome - Briar Hill, 2002, Enamel on burlap over panel, 16.25 x 16.25 inches, #JN02
John Nixon, Untitled, 2014, Black colored pencil on paper, 8.25 x 5.75 inches, #JN13
John Nixon, Untitled, 2014, Black colored pencil on paper, 8.25 x 5.75 inches, #JN14
John Nixon, Untitled, 2014, Black colored pencil on paper, 8.25 x 5.75 inches, #JN15
John Nixon, Untitled, 2014, Black colored pencil on paper, 8.25 x 5.75 inches, #JN16
John Nixon, Untitled, 2014, Black colored pencil on paper, 8.25 x 5.75 inches, #JN17
John Nixon, Untitled, 2014, Black colored pencil on paper, 8.25 x 5.75 inches, #JN18
John Nixon, Untitled, 2014, Black colored pencil on paper, 8.25 x 5.75 inches, #JN19
John Nixon, Untitled, 2014, Black colored pencil on paper, 8.25 x 5.75 inches, #JN20
John Nixon, Untitled, 2014, Black colored pencil on paper, 8.25 x 5.75 inches, #JN21
John Nixon, Untitled, 2014, Black colored pencil on paper, 8.25 x 5.75 inches, #JN22
Biography
John Nixon (b. 1949, Sydney, Australia; d. Melbourne, Australia, 2020) is one of the most renowned abstract artists of his generation. Since his first solo exhibition in Melbourne in 1973, he has mounted hundreds of solo exhibitions in Australia, New Zealand, Europe, and the United States. In 1982, he was selected by Germano Celant to represent Australia at Documenta 7 in Kassel, Germany.
Nixon’s work is included in public and private collections worldwide, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (NYC), Australian National Gallery (Canberra), Museum of Contemporary Art (Sydney), Art Gallery of New South Wales (Sydney), Museum of Contemporary Art (Sydney), National Gallery of Victoria (Melbourne), Heide Museum of Modern Art (Melbourne), TarraWarra Museum of Art (Melbourne), Art Gallery of Western Australia (Perth), Queensland Art Gallery (Brisbane), Auckland Art Gallery (Auckland, New Zealand), National Gallery of Contemporary Art (Seoul, Korea), Museum Sztuki (Lodz, Poland), Foire National d’Art Contemporain (Paris, France), Herning Kunstmuseumm (Denmark), Kunstmuseum Esberg (Denmark), Stiftung fur Konkrete Kunst (Reutlingen, Germany), Daimler Collection (Berlin, Germany), and Kunstmuseum St. Gallen (Switzerland), among many others.
Nixon is the recipient of the Australian Council Fellowship Award (2001) and the Clemenger Contemporary Art Award (1999). During the late 1960s, he studied at the National Gallery of Victoria Art School and Preston Institute of Technology in Melbourne, Australia.
Overview
Artist John Nixon began his ongoing project – Experimental Painting Workshop (EPW) – in 1990 to encompass his expansive investigation into the history and legacy of abstraction in Europe, the United States, and Australasia. Working project by project, Nixon organizes his cumulative visual research into specific, yet open-ended groupings to which he assigns titles such as EPW: Orange, EPW: Polychrome, and EPW: Silver, among others.