Born 1966 in Nottingham, United Kigdom

Lives and works in London, United Kigdom

Education

1989

B.F.A. Goldsmith's College, University of London

1986

Trent Polytechnic

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2017

Mat Collishaw: Thresholds, Somerset House, London

The Centrifugal Soul, Blain Southern, London

2015

Mat Collishaw, The New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall

2014

New Works, Villa Borghese, Rome (upcoming)

Mat Collishaw, Patricia Low, Gstaad

2013

This is not an exit, Blain Southern, London

2010

Magic Lantern, Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Shooting Stars & Garden of Unearthly Delights, Void, Derry, Ireland, curated by Damien Duffy

Modern Pastimes, Fama Gallery, London, curated by Banilo Eccher

Creation Condemned, Blain/Southern, London

Superveillance, Raucchi Santamaria, Naples

Outcasts, Chiostro del Commendatore, Borgo Santa Spirito, Rome

Retrospectre, BFI, British Film Institute, London

2009

Submission, Haunch of Venison, berlin

Hysteria, Freud Museum, London

Nebulaphobia, Unosunove, Rome

2008

Electric Ladyland, Analix Forever, Geneva

Shooting Stars, Haunch of Venison, London

Deliverance, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York

Deliverance, Spring Projects, London

2007

Mat Collishaw, Anthony Goicolea, Haunch of Venison, Zürich (avec / with Anthony Goicolea)

2006

Buenas Noches, Galerie Analix Forever, Geneva

Mat Collishaw, Raucci/Santamaria Galleria, Naples

2005

Capillary Action, Anne Faggionato, London

No One Is Innocent, Grimm Rosenfeld, München

Mat Collishaw, Inverleith House, Edinburgh

2004

Mat Collishaw, Galerie Analix Forever, Geneva

Mat Collishaw, Art & Public, Geneva

2003

Mat Collishaw, Modern Art, London

Retinal Stain, Cosmic Galerie, Paris

2002

Mat Collishaw, Cosmic Galerie, Paris

Mat Collishaw, Raucci/Santamaria Galleria, Naples

2001

Mat Collishaw, Galerie Analix Forever, Geneva

Mat Collishaw, Site Gallery, Sheffield

New Works, Modern Art, London

Ultra Violet Baby, 4 day film screening, Shoreditch Town Hall, London

Mat Collishaw, Bonakdar Jancou Gallery, New York

Lux Gallery, London part of the Pandaemonium Film Festival

Galleria Raucci/Santamaria, Naples

2000

Museum of Contemporary Art, Warsaw

1999

Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Bologna

Flesheaters, Galerie Analix Forever, Geneva

1998

Bloom Gallery, Amsterdam

Bonakdar Jancou Gallery, New York

Anne Faggionato, London (with Damien Hirst)

1997

Ideal Boys, Ridinghouse Editions, London

Galerie Analix Forever, Geneva

Ideal Boys, Galleria Raucci/Santamaria, Naples

Duty Free Spirits, Lisson Gallery, London

1996

Control Freaks, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York

Statements, Galerie Analix, Art 27'96, Basel

1995

Bloom Gallery, Amsterdam (with Danielle Kwaaital)

Camden Arts Centre, London

Karsten Schubert Ltd., London (in collaboration with Thomas Dane)

Galerie Analix Forever, Geneva

1994

Idol Hours, Gramercy Park Hotel, New York, organised by Cohen Gallery

The Eclipse of Venus, No. 20 Glasshouse Street, London

Galleria Raucci / Santamaria, Naples

1993

Galerie Analix, Geneva

Centre d'Art Contemporain, Martigny

1992

Cohen Gallery, New York

1990

Karsten Schubert Ltd., London

Riverside Studios, London

Selected Group Exhibitions

2017

Mirror Mirror, MuDAC - Musée de Design et d'arts Appliqués Contemporains

Luther and the avant-garde, Altes Gefägnis, Wittenberg, Germany

Creating the Countryside, Thomas Gainsborough to Today, Compton Verney, Warwickshire, UK

Nature Morte Contemporary artists reinvigorate the Still-Life tradition , Muzeum Narodowe, Wrocław, Poland, curated by Michael Petry, Roberto Ekholm, Małgorzata Santarek

Glastress, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, Florida, US

2016

On the Origin of Art, MONA - The Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart, Berriedale, Australia

Love Stories , Galerie nationale de la Tapisserie, Beauvais, France

Now You See Me , TJ Boulting, London, United Kingdom

2014

Glassstress, : White Light/White Heat, London College of Fashion, London

Since 1843: In the Making, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham

2011

Mémoires duf utur, La collection olbricht, La Maison Rouge, Paris, curated by Wolfgang Schoppmann

2010

La Forêt de mon rêve, i>, galerie d'art du conseil général des Bouches du Rhône, Aix en Provence

Locus Solus, Benaki Museum, Athens

Extraordinary Measures, Belsay Castle, Northumbria

Mat Collishaw, Tracey Emin & Paula Rego, Foundling Museum, London

2009

Distortion, Gervasuti Foundation, Venice, organisée par / curated by James Putnam

Horn of Plenty, London

Mythologies, Haunch of Venison, London

Esquire's Singular Suit, Somerset House, London

Eat Me, Drink Me, The Goss-Michael Foundation, Dallas

Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, Bugada & Cargnel, Paris

Flower Power, CRAA Centro Ricerca Arte Attuale Villa Giulia, Vebania, organisée par / curated by Andrea Busto

Post Tenebras Lux, Analix Forever, Geneva

2008

Take Me There (Show Me the Way), Haunch of Venison, London

Seeing the Light, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York

Feminae, Galerie Guy Bartschi, Geneva

Le cadavre exquis boira le vin nouveau, Analix Forever, Geneva

2007

Les Fleurs du Mal, Museo Arcos, Benevento, Italy

Into Me / Out of me, Museo MACRO, Rome

The Tempest – Mat Collishaw and Paul Fryer, i>, Venice Biennale, The Gervasuti Foundation, Venice, organisée par / curated by James Putnam

Reconstruction # 2, Sudeley Castle, Gloucestershire, organisée par / curated by Mollie Dent-Blocherhurst and Elliot McDonald

Bird Watching, De Vishal Exhibition Center, Haarlem

2006

Into Me / Out of Me, Kunstwerke, Berlin

In the Darkest Hours There May Be Light, Serpentine Gallery, London

Into Me / Out of Me, PS1 MOMA, Long Island

Naturalia, Mat Collishaw, Ellen Gallagher, Jamie Shovlin, Unosunove, Rome

People. Volti, corpi e segni contemporanei dalla collezione di Ernesto Esposito, MADRE – Museo d'arte Donna Regina, Naples, organisée par / curated by Edoardo Cicelyn et Mario Codognato

What Makes You and I Different, Tramway, Glasgow

Solitude, Upstairs, Berlin

2005

Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York

The Parabole Show, Grimm/Rosenfeld, Berlin

Fifty One Celebrates Five Years, Fifty One Fine Art Photography, Antwerp

Collecion Helga de Alvear, Museo Extremeno & Iberoamericano, Badajoz

2004

Rose c'est la vie. On Flowers in Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv

New Blood, Saatchi Gallery, London

Art of The Garden, Tate Britain, London

Artmania, ! Art and the World of Plants, Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens, Sunderland

I Assassin, Walspace Art Space, New York

2003

Narcissus, CRAC Alsace, Altkirsch

2002

New religious Art, Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, curated by Neal Brown

The Passing, Galeria Helga de Alvear, Madrid, curated by Charlotte Schepke

Penetration, Friederich Petzel Gallery, New York; Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, curated by Mark Fletcher

Tableaux Vivants: Living Pictures and Attitudes in Photography, Film and Video, Kunsthalle Wien, Wien

Screen, Ashcroft Arts Centre, a national touring exhibition organised by the Hayward Gallery for the Arts Council of England

Mirroring Evil / Nazi Imagery in Recent Art, The, Jewish Museum, New York

Nausea, Diannogly Art Gallery, Nottingham

At Sea, Sainsbury Centre, UEA, Norwich, organised by Tate Liverpool

At Sea, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool

Penetration, Friederich Petzel Gallery, New York; Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York

2001

Asylum: Mat Collishaw, Inside space at Selfridges, London

Sacred and Profane, A Sheffield Galleries & Museum Trust Touring Exhibition, Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield

Double Vision, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig, Germany

Electronic Maple: Human Language and Digital Culture in Contemporary Art, New York Centre for Media Arts, New York

Mat Collishaw, Site Gallery, Sheffield

Tattoo Show, Modern Art, London

BBC in association with the Lux presents an exhibition of digital art, The Lux Gallery, London

SV, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia

Remnant, Hunter College/ Leubsdorf Art Gallery, New York

2000

Greenhouse Effect, Serpentine Gallery, London 1000+1 Nacht, Landesmuseum, Linz,

Psycho, Art and Anatomy, Anne Faggionato, London, curated by Danny Moynihan

Bierfest, , VTO, London

And she will have your eyes..., Galerie Analix Forever, Geneva

Anna & Bernhard Blume, Sophie Calle, Mat Collishaw,Jim Dine, Flor Garduño & Candida Höfer, i>, The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago

Sex & the British, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg and Paris, curated by Max Wigram and Norman Rosenthal

Flower Show, Pump House Gallery, London

Lisson Gallery in Covent Garden, London

Point of View: Works from a Private Collection, Richard Salmon, London

Potent Present, CCAC Institute,Logan Galleries, San Francisco

Petty Crimes, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne

From a Distance: Approaching Landscape, ICA, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston Small Worlds: The Diorama in Contemporary Art Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego

The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago

1999

Claustrophobia, Cartwright Hall, Lister Park, Bradford; Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield; Centre for Visual Arts, Cardiff

EXTRAetORDINAIRE, , Printemps de Cahors, France Chiva[s]ynergies/art: Moving Image, Museo de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, São Paulo

The Flower Show: Flowers in Art in the 20th Century, Harewood House, Leeds

The Edge of Awareness – Al Limite della Coscienza, i>, Triennale di Milano, Milan; Tea Factory, Liverpool, curated by Adelina von Fürstenberg

This Other World of Ours, TV Gallery, Moscow

Secret Victorians, Contemporary Artists and a 19th-Century Vision, Hayward Gallery, London; Middlesborough Art Gallery; IKON Gallery, Birmingham, GB

Best of the Season, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield

LA International, Chac-Mool Contemporary Fine Art, West Hollywood, in collaboration with Lisson Gallery, GB

Flower Show, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, GB

Dimension Variable, The Ludwig Museum Budapest – Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest

Now It's my Turn to Scream, Works by Contemporary Artist from the Logan Collection, Haines Gallery, San Francisco

Sensation: Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, curated by Norman Rosenthal and Charles Saatchi

Art Lovers, TRACEY, The Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art, Liverpool, curated by Marcia Fortes

1998

Secret Victorians, Contemporary Artists and a 19th-Century Vision, touring exhibition: The Minority Art Gallery, Colchester; Arnolfini, Bristol; Hayward Gallery, London; Middlesborough Art Gallery, Middlesborough; IKON Gallery, Birmingham; UCLA at the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Centre, Los Angeles

Close Echoes, City Gallery, Prague, touring to Kunsthalle Krems

Exterminating Angel, Galerie Guislaine Hussenot, Paris, France

Exhibition of Contemporary British Art, Japanese Museum Tour, 1989-99, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Art, traveling to Fukoka City Art Museum; Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art; Tokyo Museum of Contemporary Art; Ashiya City Museum of Art and History

London Calling, British Art School in Rome, Rome

Public Body & Artificial Space, Kunsthalle Krems, Krems

The Edge of Awareness, P.S.1 Museum, New York, curated by Adelina von Fürstenberg

Then and Now, Lisson Galery, London

Bad Habits, Galeria Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid

Animation, LEA, London Electronic Arts, London

Claustrophobia, IKON Gallery, Birmingham, travelling to Middlesbrough Art Gallery, Middlesborough; Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield; Dundee Contemporary Art, Cartwright Hall, Bradsford, Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Centre for Visual Art, Cardiff

Precursor, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York

Shrunken Heads, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield

1997

Other men's flower, British Art School in Rome, Rome, curated by Joshua Compton

Pictura, Britannica, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, touring to Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide; City Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand Urban Legends, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden Baden Sensation: Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection, Royal Academy of Arts, London, curated by Norman Rosenthal and Charles Saatchi The Citybank Private Bank Photography Prize, Royal College of Art, London

Full House: Young British Art, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg Private Face – Urban Space: A New Generation of Artists from Britain, Gasworks, Athens

London Live, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg

Screen, Anne Faggionato, London

A print portfolio from London, Alte Gerhardsen, Oslo

Live/life, Fundaçao des Descobertes, Lisbon

1996

On Line Media, Graaf van Vlaanderenplein, Gent

Fernbedienung, /Does television informs the way art is made, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz

Hide and Seek, Jerusalem, curated by Ami Barak

Exchanging Interiors, Museum van Loon, Amsterdam, curated by Manuela Klerxx

Live/Life, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist

Figure to Object, Frith Street Gallery, London

Summer Show, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York

Human Technology, Revolution, Ferndale

Digital Gardens, Power Plant, Toronto

The Inner Eye, Manchester City Art Gallery, Manchester, curated by Mariner Warmer

P.A.D.T., Thames,London

Drawings, , Karsten Schubert Ltd, London

Comme un Oiseau, Fondation Cartier, Paris

Statement & Video Forum, Art 27'96, Basel, Galerie Analix

Manifesta, Natural History Museum, Rotterdam

Hybrids, De Appel Foundation, Amsterdam

Some Drawings from London, Kate Bernard, London

Push Ups, The Factory, Ergostasio, Fine Art School, Athens, curated by Emily Tsingou

Birds: Art and Science, two creative energies confronting each other, Zerynthia, Rome, curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Carolyn Christov Bakargiev

Kindom, of Flora, Shoshona Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica

More Than Real, Palazzo Reale, Caserta, organised by galleria Raucci / Santamaria and Massimo Sgroi

The British Art Show IV, organised by the Hayward Gallery for the Arts, Council of England, travelling to Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh; May – July: Cardiff

1995

The British Art Show IV, organised by the Hayward Gallery for the Arts, Council of England, travelling to

Chinese Arts Center, Manchester; Edinbourgh; Cardiff

Bloom Gallery, Amsterdam

The Fourth Istanbul Biennial, Art and Culture Foundation, Istanbul, curated by René Block Le mille e una volta, Mostra Colettiva di Contenuto Favolistico, Galleria di Arte Moderna e Contemporane, Repubblica di San Marino, San Marino, curated by Laura Cherubini and Giacinto di Pietrantonio

Konrad Lorenz's Duck, Ex Lanificio Bona, Carignano, Turin, curated by Paola Piccato

2 x 2 ,4 for 4, Karaoke, South London Gallery, curated by Georg Herold

Brilliant! New Art From London, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, travelling to Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston

Brill: work on paper by "Brilliant!" artists, Montgomery Glassoe Fine Art, Minneapolis

Oltre la normalità concentrica, Palazzo Da Zara, Padua, curated by Gianni Romano

Wild Walls, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

Hardcore II, Factual Nonsense, London

Here and Now, Serpentine Gallery, London

Dialogues de Paix, (50th ONU anniversary), United Nations, Geneva, curated by Adelina von Fürstenberg, touring exhibition travelling to PS1, New York; Triennale di Milano, Milan

Minky, Manky, South London Gallery, London, curated by Carl Friedman

Other Men's Flowers, Ice Box, Athens, curated by Joshua Compton

On Site Project, Camden Arts Centre, London

1994

Corpus Delicti-London in the 90's, Kunstforeningen Copenhagen, Denmark

Purple 8 ½, Galerie Jousse Seguin, Paris, curated by Purple Prose, Elein Fleiss and Olivier Zahm

Institute for Cultural Anxiety, ICA, Institute of Contemporary Art, London Nature Morte: Mat Collishaw, Damien Hirst, Stephen Murphy, Julie Roberts, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York

Winter of Love, PS1 Musem, New York, curated by Elein Fleiss, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Bernard Joisten, Jean-Luc Vilmouth and Olivier Zahm

Incertaine Identité, Galerie Analix, Geneva

Soggetto-Soggetto, Castello di Rivoli, Turin

Ars Lux, touring exhibition, curated by Roberto Daolio, Giacinto di Pierantonio, Silvia Grandi, Gabriele Peretta, Roberto Pinto, Gianni Romano and Marco Senaldi

Rien à Signaler, Galerie Analix, Geneva, curated by Gianni Romano

Hellraiser, Monte Carasso, curated by Stefano Jermini

Not Self-portrait, Karsten Schubert Ltd, London

Nature Morte, Mat Collishaw, Damien Hirst, Stephen Murphy, Julie Roberts, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York L'Hiver de l'amour, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, curated by Elein Fleiss, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Bernard Joisten, Jean-Luc Vilmouth and Olivier Zahm

1993

Displace, Cohen Gallery, New York

Aperto, '93, XLV Venice Biennial, Venice

The Ebb Tide Shell Gathering, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Martigny

Changing I Dense Cities, Shedhalle, Zurich

1992

Under Thirty, Galerie Metropol, Vienna

Twenty Fragile Pieces, Galerie Analix, Geneva, curated by Gianni Romano

Exhibit A, Serpentine Gallery, London

Collishaw, Fairhurst, Lane, Via Farini, Milan

1991

Stillstand, Switches, Shedhalle, Zurich

1990

Modern Medicine, Building One, London

A group Show, Karsten Schubert Ltd, London

1989

Ghost Photography: The Illusion of the Visible, touring exhibition, Italy, curated by Stella Santacatterina

1988

Freeze, Surrey Docks, London, curated by Damien Hirst