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
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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David Nash RA, Cork Spire, 2012.
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Creating the work of David Nash RA
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Selected CV
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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
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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
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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
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