Mike Nelson

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British | 1967

Mike Nelson is a British Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1967. His work is currently being shown at Leeds Art Gallery. Numerous key galleries and museums such as 303 Gallery have featured Mike Nelson's work in the past.Mike Nelson's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 90 USD to 9,201 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2010 the record price for this artist at auction is 9,201 USD for AMNESIAC BEACH FIRE, sold at Sotheby's Amsterdam in 2010. Mike Nelson has been featured in articles for , and . The most recent article is written for Juliet Art Magazine in October 2025.

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Trophy Head ,2000

By Mike Nelson

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Untitled (Companion Piece for a Public Space) - Mike Nelson

Untitled (Companion Piece for a Public Space) ,2016

By Mike Nelson

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鈥淧hoto Call鈥� on November 17th, 1992, for Socks, cat of US President Bill Clinton鈥檚 family, outside the family鈥檚 mansion in Little Rock, Arkansas

By Mike Nelson

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battery lamp ,2001

By Mike Nelson

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鈥淧hoto Call鈥� on November 17th, 1992, for Socks, cat of US President Bill Clinton鈥檚 family, outside the family鈥檚 mansion in Little Rock, Arkansas

By Mike Nelson

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Soldiers patrol in front of the Egyptian pyramids on February 28th, 1986

By Mike Nelson

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Current Exhibitions

Mike Nelson: M62 (East, West)

Leeds Art Gallery

Leeds | UK

12 Jul, 2025 - 01 Feb, 2026

Past Exhibitions

303 Gallery: 40 Years

303 Gallery

Chelsea | New York | USA

16 Jul, 2024 - 09 Aug, 2024

303 Gallery: 35 Years

303 Gallery

Chelsea | New York | USA

18 Jul, 2019 - 16 Aug, 2019

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Articles

Objectifiction: seven artists question the dual nature of objects at Studio la Linea Verticale

Juliet Art Magazine 03 Oct, 2025

The everyday object as an aesthetic battlefield: this is perhaps one of the most persistent challenges of art over the last century.

Temporary Worlds: Mike Nelson, Siân Davey and HOST at EAF25

The Skinny 12 Sep, 2025

Among the varied programme of the 2025 Edinburgh Art Festival, three exhibitions in the city are threaded together through a shared interrogation of transformed space and memory.

Edinburgh Art Festival 2025

Studio International 25 Aug, 2025

Guy Oliver鈥檚 laugh-out-loud film about being a teenager, Aqsa Arif鈥檚 exploration of life as a refugee on a Glasgow council estate and a poignant look at artist John Bellany, who battled alcoholism and ill health, are just some of the shows in this year鈥檚 festival.

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鈥� ..Nelson is best-known for his labyrinthine architectural installations that unfold as narrative structures, where the viewer moves through rooms like a reader turns pages in a novel... 鈥�
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The Power Plant

鈥� ..Mike Nelson is known for his installations, which often take the form of extended labyrinths; immersive environments that involve the viewer... 鈥�
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The New Art Gallery Walsall

鈥� ..Nelson's first interest in these once gleaming aluminum visions of the future was their resemblance to the early covered wagons of the first pioneers - not an unreasonable comparison when you realize that... 鈥�
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The Power Plant

鈥� ..By introducing these elements into a space in which they exchange charges with other societies, real and imagined, absent and present, Nelson as author is simultaneously in front of and behind the window... 鈥�
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303 Gallery

鈥� ..Nelson's assemblages point to what we might see if we were able to look not through this window, but behind it; an envisioning of material and psychic forces that are determinate structures in human interpretation... 鈥�
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303 Gallery