1960

Born in London, England

1979-80 Chelsea School of Art, London, England
1980-81 Central St Martin’s School of Art, London, England   
1986-89 Central St Martin’s School of Art, London, England   
  Lives and works in New York NY, USA

Solo Exhibitions

2024

Petzel Gallery, New York NY, USA
Nicola Tyson (a survey of drawings)
, Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles CA, USA

2022

Nicola Tyson: A Bit Touched, Nino Mier Gallery, Brussels, Belgium

2021

Holding Pattern, Sadie Coles HQ, Davies Street, London, England

2020

Sense of Self, Petzel Gallery, 35 E 67th Street, New York NY, USA

Four Paintings, Sadie Coles HQ in collaboration with London Collective on Vortic Collect (online)

2017

Beyond the Trace, The Drawing Room, London, England

Mutual Admiration Society, Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago IL, USA

A Tendency to Flock, Sadie Coles HQ, Davies Street, London, England

Paintings and Drawings by Nicola Tyson, CAM Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis MO, USA 

2016

with Angela Dufresne, Living Dangerously, Reinberger Gallery, CIA Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland OH, USA

Works on Paper, Petzel Gallery, 35 E 67th Street, New York NY, USA

2015

GOODBYE/HELLO, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris, France

2014 Trouble in Happiness, Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles CA, USA
2013 Bowie Nights at Billy's Club, London, 1978,Sadie Coles HQ, Balfour Mews, London, England
2012 Bowie Nights at Billy's Club, London, 1978, White Columns, New York NY, USA
2011 Petzel Gallery, New York NY, USA
2009

Sadie Coles HQ, South Audley Street, London, England 

2007

Marc Foxx, Los Angeles CA, USA 

2006

Petzel Gallery, New York NY, USA

2005

Sadie Coles HQ, Heddon Street, London, England 

The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland (cat.)

2003

Heads, Petzel Gallery, 537 W 22nd Street, New York NY, USA

Oeuvres Récentes, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris, France
2002 Petzel Gallery, New York NY, USA
2001 Galeria Camargo Vilaca, São Paulo, Brazil 
2000 Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris, France
1999

Sadie Coles HQ, Heddon Street, London, England

Nicola Tyson Paintings and Works on Paper, Petzel Gallery, New York NY, USA

1998

Galerie Natalie Obadia, Paris, France

Kunsthalle Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland (cat.)

1997 Petzel Gallery, New York NY, USA (cat.)
1995

Anthony D’Offay Gallery, London, England

Entwistle Gallery, London, England

Petzel Gallery, New York NY, USA

1993 Trial Balloon, New York NY, USA

Group Exhibitions

2023 

Beach, Nino Mier Gallery, New York NY, USA
Femme F(r)iction, C1760, New York NY, USA
Rara avis, curated by Jerry Stafford, White Cube, Paris, France
An Apartment for Ghosts: ’57-’23, Petzel Gallery, New York NY, USA

2022

Women Painting Women, The Modern, Fort Worth TX, USA, (cat.)

omelette papier, Capitain Petzel, Berlin, Germany

2021

Subscribe: Artist and Alternative Magazines, 1970-1995, Art Institute Chicago, Chicago IL, USA

Am I asking for miracles here?, The House of Saint Barnabas, London, England

20 Years Anniversary Exhibition Part 2, Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles CA, USA

2020

100 Drawings from Now, The Drawing Center, New York NY, USA

2019

Summer Rental, Rental Gallery, East Hampton NY, USA, curated by Kenny Schachter

Flora + Fauna, Sadie Coles HQ, Davies Street, London, England

This Woman’s Work, Swindon Museum & Art Gallery, Swindon, England

Pulled in Brooklyn, IPCNY International Print Center, New York NY, USA, curated by Roberta Waddell and Samantha Rippner

Inaugural Exhibition, Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles CA, USA

2018

Close: Drawn Portraits, The Drawing Room, London, England

Nudes, Sadie Coles HQ, Davies Street, London, England

Cast of Characters, Bureau of General Services—Queer Division and The LGBT Community Center, New York NY, USA

ISelf Collection: Bumped Bodies, Whitechapel Gallery, London, England (cat.)

New Acquisitions, Swindon Museum, Swindon, England

2017

Simon Denny, Sarah Morris, Joyce Pensato, Seth Price, Dirk Skreber, Hiroki Tsukuda, Nicola Tyson, Petzel at Nanzuka Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

SomeBodies, Petzel Gallery, 456 W 18th Street, New York NY, USA

Drawing Room Biennial 2017, The Drawing Room, London, England

2016

Portraits, Skarstedt, New York NY, USA

Artistic Differences, ICA Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England

Belief and Doubt: Selections from the Francie Bishop Good and David Horvitz Collection, NSU Art Museum, Ft. Lauderdale FL, USA

Receipt of a Magical Agent, CCS Bard Center for Curatorial Studies, Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson NY, USA

2015 The Marked Self: Between Annihilation and Masquerade, Neue Galerie Graz, Graz, Austria 
2014

The Nakeds, Drawing Room, London, England; De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea, England

New Dawn, Silberkuppe, Berlin, Germany

Readykeulous by Ridykeulous: This is What Liberation Feels Like™, CAM Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, USA

2013

ICA Off-Site: A Journey Through London's Subculture: 1980s to Now, Old Selfridges Hotel, London, England

The Cat Show, White Columns, New York NY, USA, curated by Rhonda Lieberman

Facture and Fidelity: Painting Between Abstraction and Figuration, 1945 – 2010, WEX Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio, USA

2012 I glove U, Reynolds Gallery, Richmond VA, USA, curated by Ridley Howard
2011

Looking Back / The 6th White Columns Annual, White Columns, New York NY, USA

Dark Christmas, Leo Koenig, New York NY, USA

Readykeulous: The Hurtful Healer: The Correspondence Issue, Invisible-Exports, New York NY, USA

A Painting Show, Harris Lieberman Gallery, New York NY, USA

CLAP, CCS Bard Center for Curatorial Studies, Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson NY, USA

Never Let Me Go, Rhona Hoffmann, Chigago IL, USA

Kick in the Eye, Vox Populi, Philadelphia PA, USA

2010

Monster, West Vancouver Art Museum, Vancouver, Canada

A Site, Teverina Fine Art, Cortona, Italy

Summer Exhibition, RA Royal Academy of Arts, London, England, curated by Fiona Rae

Vivid, Schroeder Romero & Shredder Gallery, New York NY, USA

Un-home-ly, Oakville Galleries, Toronto, Canada

2009

From the Sublime to the Ridiculous, Teverina Fine Art, Athens, Greece

Movement Schmoovement, La Mama La Galleria, New York NY, USA

(des)Accords Communs, FRAC Normandie Rouen, Haute-Normandie, France

Works on Paper, Faggionato Fine Arts, London, England

2008

Kunst Im Heim, Capitain Petzel Gallery, Berlin, Germany

Second Thoughts, CCS Bard Center for Curatorial Studies, Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson NY, USA

Out of Shape: Stylistic Distortions of the Human Form in Art from the Logan Collection, The Frances Lehnman Loeb Art Centre, Poughkeepsie NY, USA

2007

group show, Sadie Coles HQ, Heddon Street, London, England

The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, Galleri Faurschou, Copenhagen, Denmark

Exhibitionism, CCS Bard Center for Curatorial Studies, Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson NY, USA

Stuff: International Contemporary Art from the Collection of Burt Aaron, MOCAD Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit MI, USA

At Home, Yvon Lambert, New York NY, USA

Shared Women, LACE Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles CA, USA

2006

Drawn into the World, MCA Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago IL, USA

Ridykeulous, participant Inc, New York NY, USA

Donald Baechler, Saint Clair Cemin, George Condo, Nicola Tyson, Rebecca Warren: Works from the Ophiuchus Collection, Hydra Workshops, Greece (cat.)

The Wonderful Fund- Collecting Art for the New Milleniu, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, West Sussex, England

Traits pour traits, Arthothéque de Caen, Caen, France

2005

Slices of Life, Austrian Cultural Forum, New York NY, USA

Les Grands Spectacles- 120 Years of Art and Mass Culture, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria

Present Perfect, Petzel Gallery, 537 W 22nd Street, New York NY, USA

Art Now: Confronting Figures, Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury VT, USA

2004

Summer Exhibition, RA Royal Academy of the Arts, London, England (cat.)

Sexy Beasts 1963 – 2004, ECFA Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York NY, USA

Esprit, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris, France

2002

Sadie Coles / Gallery Swap, Sommer Contemporary, Tel-Aviv, Israel

Statements (six), Dornbracht, New York NY, USA
2000

Hoxton HQ, Sadie Coles HQ at Hoxton House, London, England

Drawing on the Figure: Works on paper from the Manilow collection, MCA Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago IL, USA

Greater New York, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Centre, New York NY, USA

Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris, France

Blurry Lines, John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan WI, USA

Full Serve, Rove, New York NY, USA, curated by Kenny Schacter

1999

New Work: Painting Today – Recent Acquisitions, SFMOMA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco CA, USA

What Big Is, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington MA, USA

Looking at Ourselves: Works by Women Artists from the Logan Collection, SFMOMA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco CA, USA

1998

Pop Surrealism, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield CT, USA

Drawings IV, Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles CA, USA

Some Women/Pretty Girls, Ritter Art Gallery, FAU Florida Atlantic University FL, USA

Chaos, Control, Chaos, Control. You Like? You Like?, Elias Fine Art, Boston MA, USA, curated by Anne Lemieux

Galeria Camargo Vilaca, São Paulo, Brazil

Art of Four Decades: 1958 – 1998, SFMOMA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco CA, USA

1997

A decade of collecting: selected recent acquisitions in modern drawing, MoMA Museum of Modern Art, New York NY, USA

Project Painting, Basilico Fine Arts and Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York NY, USA (cat.)

Best of the Season, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield CT, USA

Package Holiday: Works by British Artists in the Ophiuchus Collection, Hydra Workshops, Greece, curated by Sadie Coles and Pauline Karpidas (cat.)

New Work: Drawings Today, SFMOMA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco CA, USA, curated by Janet Bishop and Gary Garrels

Drawings…an annual bi-coastal invitational, Meyerson and Nowinski, Seattle WA, USA
1996 Psycho-morphing, Caren Golden Fine Art, New York NY, USA
1995

Works on paper: Paul Myoda and Nicola Tyson, Petzel Gallery, New York NY, USA

Revealing Desire, Christina Rose Gallery, New York NY, USA

In a Different Light, University Art Museum, Berkeley CA, USA, curated by Nayland Blake and Lawrence Rinder
1994

The Unsuccess Story, 479 Broome Street, New York NY, USA, curated by Kenny Schachter

Petzel/Borgmann Gallery, New York NY, USA

I Could Do That, 109 Greene Street, New York NY, USA, curated by Kenny Schachter

part FANTASY, University of British Columbia, Vancouver & The University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

1993

The Return of the Cadavre Exquis, The Drawing Centre, New York NY, USA

part FANTASY, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco CA, USA

1992 part FANTASY, Trial Balloon, New York NY, USA
1991 Queer, Minor Injury, New York NY, USA
1990 Milch Gallery, London, England
1989 The Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, England
1988 The Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, England

Public Collections

 

Tate, London, England

SFMOMA San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco CA, USA

Walker Art Center, Minneapolis MI, USA

MoMA Museum of Modern Art, New York NY, USA

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia PA, USA

MCA Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago IL, USA

NMWA National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC, USA

Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington DC, USA

Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro NC, USA

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York NY, USA

UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles CA, USA