Mike Nelson

British | 1967

Mike Nelson is a British Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1967. 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 Art Review , MOUSSE Magazine and ARTFORUM. The most recent article is Ten Must-See Art Exhibitions Coming to Scotland in 2025 written for The Scotsman in January 2025.

At Auction

Notable Lots

battery lamp ,2001

By Mike Nelson

-67%

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

By Mike Nelson

+55%

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

Untitled (Companion Piece for a Public Space) ,2016

By Mike Nelson

-38%

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Recent Auction Results

battery lamp ,2001

By Mike Nelson

-67%

below mid-estimate

Rosebery´s Fine Art Auctioneers

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

By Mike Nelson

+55%

above mid-estimate

Digard

“Photo Call” on November 17th, 1992, for Socks, cat of US President Bill Clinton’s family, outside the family’s mansion in Little Rock, Arkansas

By Mike Nelson

+257%

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Digard

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Past Exhibitions

303 Gallery: 40 Years

303 Gallery

Chelsea | New York | USA

Jul 16,2024 - Aug 09,2024

Mike Nelson: Hybrid Scripts

Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art

Sunderland | UK

Sep 23,2023 - Jan 21,2024

All Crescendo, No Reward

Zabludowicz Collection, London

London | UK

Sep 28,2023 - Dec 17,2023

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Articles

Ten Must-See Art Exhibitions Coming to Scotland in 2025

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Coverage

“ ..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... ”
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The Power Plant

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

“ ..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... ”
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303 Gallery

“ ..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... ”
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The Power Plant

“ ..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... ”
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303 Gallery