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 Exhibition

 

2010: Solo Show at the Delfina Foundation


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, Londo
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


Residencies
 

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


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