David Nash | Artist | Royal Academy of Arts

David Nash RA (b. 1945)

David Nash studied at Kingston College of Art from 1963 to 1967 and at Chelsea School of Art (Postgraduate) from 1969 to 1970. Nash’s first solo exhibitions were held in 1973 at Queen Elizabeth Hall, York and at Oriel, Bangor, Wales. These rapidly led to a series of solo exhibitions throughout the UK and his international reputation was established after his first solo shows overseas were held in 1980 at Elise Meyer Gallery, New York and at Galleria Cavallino, Venice, Italy. Since then, he has continued to hold solo shows on an annual basis throughout the world.

Nash’s work has also been included in numerous international key group exhibitions since 1970. These include The Condition of Sculpture, at the Hayward Gallery, London (1975), British Art Now: An American Perspective, at the Soloman R Guggenheim Museum, New York and tour (1980), British Sculpture in the Twentieth Century, Part II, at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (1981) and Aspects of British Art Today, at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum in (1982).

More recently his work was included in Here and Now, at the Serpentine Gallery, London (1995), Sculptors’ Drawings 1945-90, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York and The Shape of the Century: 100 Years of Sculpture in Britain, at Salisbury Cathedral and Canary Wharf, London (1999). In 2000 his work Cube, Sphere, Pyramid was purchased by the Chantrey Bequest for the nation.

David Nash is represented by Annely Juda Fine Art, London; Galerie LeLong in Paris, Zurich and New York; Galerij S65, Aalst, Belgium; Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo and the Haines Gallery, San Francisco. Nash was elected a Royal Academician in 1999, the same year in which he was appointed a Research Fellow, University of Northumbria, Newcastle and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Art & Design by Kingston University. Nash lives and works in North Wales.

Profile

Royal Academician

Sculptor

Born: 1945 in Esher, Surrey, England, United Kingdom

Nationality: British

Elected RA: 26 May 1999

Elected Senior RA: 1 October 2021

Gender: Male

Preferred media: Sculpture

Works by David Nash in the RA Collection

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    See David Nash creating his works at Cae'n y Coed in North Wales.

  • Selected CV

    • Recent solo exhibitions

      2018 Wood, Metal, Pigment, Annely Juda Fine Art, London
      Nature to Nature, Fondation Fernet-Branca, St Louis, France
      First the Wood, then the Form, Museum Lothar Fischer, Neumarkt, Germany
      Galerie Scheffel, Jakobshallen, Bad Homburg, Germany
      2017 Art Project, Krauhuegel & Art and Church, Kollegienkirche, Salzburg
      Tree Seasons, Plas Glyn-y-Weddw, Gwynedd, Wales
      Galeria Alvaro Alcazar, Madrid
      2016 Columns, Peaks and Torsos, Galerie Lelong, Paris
      2015 Keeper’s House, Royal Academy of Arts
      2014 Coalbrookdale Museum of Iron
      David Nash Stencil Prints, Kloster Schoenthal, Switzerland
      David Nash, Kukje Gallery, Seoul
      David Nash Prints and Multiples, Galerie Lelong, Paris
      Sculpture-Graphic Work 1987-2013, Galerie Simon Blais, Montreal
      2013 Château Chaumont-sur-Loire, France
      Kew Gardens, London

    • Selected collections

      Museum of Modern Art, Caracas
      National Museum of Wales, Cardiff
      Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne
      Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
      Uffizi Gallery, Florence
      Grizedale Forest, Cumbria
      Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art
      Arts Council of Great Britain, London
      British Council, London
      Contemporary Art Society, London
      Government Art Collection, London
      Tate Gallery, London
      Victoria and Albert Museum, London
      Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
      Soloman R Guggenheim Museum, New York
      Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo
      Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
      National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul
      Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
      Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield

    • Selected publications

      Forest Poems, Forest Drawings, David Nash with Anthony Barnett, Ferry Press, London, 1982
      Earthworks and Beyond: Contemporary Art in the Landscape, John Beardsley, Abbeville Press, New York, 1984
      A Sense of Place: Sculpture in Landscape, Peter Davies and Tony Knipe, Ceolfrith Press, Sunderland
      Second Nature, Richard Mabey (ed.), Jonathan Cape, London
      Wood Primer, David Nash, Bedford Press, San Francisco, 1987
      A Quiet Revolution – British Sculpture Since 1965, Graham Beal and Mary Jane Jacob, Thames and Hudson, London
      David Nash – Forms into Time, Marina Warner, Academy Editions, London (1996; Second Edition 2001)
      The Sculpture of David Nash, Julian Andrews, Lund Humphries, London
      TWUMPS, Jahra Blomfield, Seren Press, South Wales, 2001
      Black and Light, Dr Judith Collins, Annely Juda Fine Art, London

Associated archives

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