BIOGRAPHY
1946 Born in Knowle Green, Lancashire, England
1969 B.A. from Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts
1972 M.A. from Royal College of Art
1972-4 Prix de Rome, The British School at Rome
1976 Harkness Fellow, School of Art, Yale University
1980-81 Howard Foundation Fellow in Fine Art, Brown University
1989 Guggenheim Fellowship in Painting
1993 Ingram Merrill Fellow in Painting
1988-Pres. Dean of the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture
2001 Artist in residence, The Arthur Boyd Bundanon Trust, Shoalhaven, NSW, Australia
2001-02 Quattlebaum Artist in Residence, School of Fine Arts, Charleston, South Carolina
2003 Mayo Distinguished Visiting Arts, Tulsa University
2015 Acquisition of "Bather With Outstretched Arms" by The National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
2016 American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Art
2019 Acquisition by Metropolitan Museum of Art from "Selections from the Michael and Juliet Rubinstein Gift"
2021 Acquisition of "Yellow Rise: Sun Watcher" by The National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
The artist currently lives and works in New York City.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 Graham Nickson: In Black and White, Betty Cuningham Gallery, NY
2021 Graham Nickson: Passages, Pamela Salisbury Gallery, Hudson, NY
2019 Graham Nickson, Betty Cuningham Gallery, New York
2018 Graham Nickson, Cumulus, Monumental Trees and Transient Skies, New York
Studio School, New York
2017 Graham Nickson: Light and Geometry, Betty Cuningham Gallery, New York
2015 Graham Nickson: Spectrum, Betty Cuningham Gallery, New York
2014 Graham Nickson: Transient Skies, Lehman Gallery, Brooks School, North Andover, Massachusetts
2011 Graham Nickson: PAINTINGS 1972-2011 Paths of the Sun, Knoedler & Company, New York
2009 Graham Nickson: Edge of the Day, Watercolors: A Selection, Monmouth Museum, New Jersey
2009 Graham Nickson: Italian Skies, Jill Newhouse Gallery, New York
2008 Graham Nickson: Recent Watercolors, Gallery Camino Real, Boca Raton, Florida 2007-08 Graham Nickson: Private Myths, Naples Museum of Art, Naples, Florida
2007 Graham Nickson: Watercolors, Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, New York
Graham Nickson: Meeting and Passing, Lillehammer Kunstmuseum, Lillehammer, Norway
2006 Graham Nickson: New Work, Camino Real Gallery, Boca Raton, Florida
2006 Graham Nickson: Works from Private Collections, Boca Raton Museum of Art,
Boca Raton, Florida
2005 Graham Nickson: Paintings, Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, New York
2003 Graham Nickson: Mayo Distinguished Visiting Artist, Watercolors,Tulsa
University, Oklahoma
Graham Nickson, Alpha Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts 2002 Graham Nickson, Camino Real Gallery, Boca Raton, Florida
2001 Graham Nickson: Large Works, Oil on Canvas, Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, New York
2000 Graham Nickson: Dual Natures, (Retrospective) Frye Art Museum, Seattle, Washington. Traveled to: Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, Arkansas, 2001; Pepperdine University, Malibu, California, 2002; Halsey Gallery, Charleston, North Carolina, 2002
Graham Nickson: Exits and Entries: Watercolors, Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, New York
Graham Nickson: Thought Through My Eyes - Recent Watercolors, The Robert & Mary Montgomery Art Center, West Palm Beach, Florida
1999 Graham Nickson: New Work, Camino Real Gallery, Boca Raton, Florida Graham Nickson: Watercolors, Von Leibig Art Center, Naples, Florida 1998 Graham Nickson: Watercolors, Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, New York
1997 Graham Nickson: Paintings, Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, New York
1996 Graham Nickson, Drawings 1975 - 1996, Glenn Horowitz Gallery, East Hampton,
New York
Graham Nickson, Recent Drawings and Paintings, Camino Real Gallery, Boca Raton, Florida
1995 Graham Nickson: Paintings and Drawings, Camino Real Gallery, Boca Raton, Florida
Graham Nickson: Paintings and Drawings, Adelaide Central Gallery, Australia 1994 Graham Nickson: Paintings and Drawings, Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, New York
Graham Nickson: Drawing Installation, Robert Morrison Gallery, New York 1991 Graham Nickson, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina at
Greensboro
Graham Nickson, Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, New York
1990 Graham Nickson, Gallery Camino Real, Boca Raton, Florida
1988 Graham Nickson, Riva Yarez Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona
1988 Graham Nickson: Paintings and Drawings, Northern Centre for Contemporary
Art, Sunderland. Traveled to: Albermarle Gallery, London; Warwick Arts Centre;
Arts Council of Northern Ireland; Galerie Kluuvi, Helsinki 1987 Graham Nickson, Dart Gallery, Chicago
1986 Graham Nickson, Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York 1984 Graham Nickson, Dart Gallery, Chicago
Graham Nickson, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco
1983 Graham Nickson: Recent Paintings, Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York
1982 Graham Nickson: Drawing Into Color, William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut
Graham Nickson: Paintings and Drawings, Susan Caldwell, Inc., New York
Graham Nickson: Large Works on Paper, Susan Caldwell, Inc., New York 1980 Graham Nickson: Paintings and Drawings, Susan Caldwell, Inc., New York 1979 The Bather Series: Works on Paper, Gallery 2, Syracuse, New York
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York
William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut, Storrs
Cleve Carney Museum of Art, Dupage College, Illinois
Boca Raton Museum of Art, Florida
The British School at Rome, Italy
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Massachusetts
Harvard Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Frye Art Museum, Seattle, Washington
Israel Museum, Tel Aviv
La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, California
Lillehammer Art Museum, Norway
Long Island Museum of American Art, History & Carriages, Stony Brook, New York
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Middlesborough Institute of Modern Art, United Kingdom
Morgan Library and Museum, New York
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, California
Museum of Modern Art, New York
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
National Academy Museum, New York
Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, Sate University of New York
Nuffield Foundation, London, U.K.
Pollock Gallery, Meadows School of the Arts, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas Royal College of Art, London, United Kingdom
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington
Villa Romana, Florence, Italy
The von Liebig Art Center, Naples Art Association, Florida
Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Malibu, California Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut