Nathaniel Rackowe

Nathaniel Rackowe makes large-scale works that animate architectural spaces and transform viewers into active participants. His works explore the boundaries of physical space and movement, casting light about their perimeters like a search beacon.  Made of low-tech 'functional' materials, the works expose otherwise unseen dimensions, visual and temporal, activating and giving physical form to the 'in-between' space that they inhabit.

www.rackowe.com


Born in 1975, lives and works in London, UK

Education

2001:    MFA Sculpture, The Slade School Of Fine Art, UCL,

  London                                    
1998:    B.A. Honours Fine Art (Sculpture), Sheffield Hallam University
1995:    B.T.E.C Diploma, Foundation Studies, Cambridge Regional College
        
Forthcoming Exhibitions

2010:    Solo Show, BISCHOFF/WEISS, London

Current Projects

2009:    Artist residency with the Delfina Foundation in Beirut, Lebanon   

Solo Exhibitions

2009:    Solo Show, Art Basel Miami Beach, Positions with BISCHOFF/WEISS,
  Miami, USA
  Group Show, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
2008:    Divisions, Centro Colombo Americano, Bogota, Colombia
  Pathfinding, Galerie Almine Rech, Paris
  Preverberation, Siobhan Davies Studios, London
2007:    Luminous Territories, BISCHOFF/WEISS, London
  First Floor, Galerie Almine Rech, Project Space, Paris
2005:    Shift, BISCHOFF/WEISS, London
  Stanhope Solo Exhibition, Serpentine Pavillon, London
  Timebase Gallery, Hull, UK
2004:    GardenFresh Gallery, Chicago

Selected Group Exhibitions

2009:    Kaleidoscopic Revolver, British Art, Hanjiyun Contemporary Space, Beijing,
  China
  Natural Wonders: New Art from London, Group Show, Baibakov Art 
  Projects, Moscow
  Superposition, Two Person Show, Duve Gallery, Berlin
2008:    Zoo Art Fair, BISCHOFF/WEISS, London
  Nathaniel Rackowe and Douglas White, Art Vandelay Gallery, London
  Constructs for Illumination, Allsopp Contemporary London
  Domestic Appliance, Flowers East, London
  Art After Dark, Louise Blouin Foundation, London
  Walls & Gateways, Existentie, Gent, Belgium
  Monologue/Dialogue Part II, Thai/UK Art, BISCHOFF/WEISS, London
  Lumiere, Galerie Jan Wentrup, Berlin
2007:    Group Show, Du machinique et du vivant, La Reserve, Pacy-sur-Eure,
  France
  The Body Electric, Truman Brewery, London
  All Tomorrows Pictures, ICA, London
  Jerwood Sculpture Prize: Short Listed Artist Exhibition, Jerwood Space,
  London
  Time, Burghley  Sculpture Garden Burghley House, Stamford 
2006:    Artificial Light, MoCA Miami, USA    
  Artificial Light, Anderson Gallery, Richmond, USA
  Residency followed by Monologue/Dialogue Part I, Bangkok, Thailand
  Reveal, Installation for the Sculpture Trail Forest of Dean, UK
2005:    Sine Qua Non, BISCHOFF/WEISS, London
2004:    2X2, Dahl Gallery, Luzern, Switzerland
  Trackers, PM Gallery, UK
2003:    I am a Curator, Chisenhale Gallery, London
  Origin, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester
  R type and Pests, BLOC, Sheffield, UK
2002:    Bloomberg New Contemporaries, Static Gallery Liverpool in September
  during Biennial and Barbican Center in December, UK
  Fame and Promise, Victoria Miro Gallery, London
  It Was Bigger Than All of Us, The Prenelle Gallery, South Quay, London
2001:    Communicating At an Unknown Rate, Engine Group Show Harrow Road,
  London
  Postgraduate Degree Show, Slade School of Fine Art, London
2000:    Slade Engine. Group show, Vauxhall London

Public Sculpture

2010:    Spin, Lima, Peru,
2008:    Government Art Collection commission for 50 Queens Anne’s Gate,
  London
2007:    RP3, Economist Plaza with CAS, London
2006:    LP4, Victoria, London, UK

Grants / Awards

2004:    Stanhope Fellowship
2003:    Boise Travel Scholarship2001:    Arts and Humanities Research Board
  award for Postgraduate Study, 1999 –2001

Selected Collections

Jumex Collection, Mexico
Museum of Modern Art, Lima, Peru
LVMH Collection, Paris
Museum of New Art, Tasmania, Australia
David Roberts Collection, London
UK Government Art Collection
Hauer & Wirth Collection
Ernst & Young Collection, London