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1949 - 2020. Known for: Installation, collage, photography, and video.
John Nixon is an Australian artist, born in 1949, who trained at the Preston Institute of Technology and the Melbourne National Gallery School of Art. He represented Australia at Documenta 7 in... Read full biography
John Nixon is an Australian artist, born in 1949, who trained at the Preston Institute of Technology and the Melbourne National Gallery School of Art. He represented Australia at Documenta 7 in Kassel, Germany in 1982 and founded the artist-run space Art Projects in Melbourne. He was also the... Read full biography
John Nixon is an Australian artist, born in 1949, who trained at the Preston Institute of Technology and the Melbourne National Gallery School of Art. He represented Australia at Documenta 7 in Kassel, Germany in 1982 and founded the artist-run space Art Projects in Melbourne. He was also the director of the Brisbane Institute of Modern Art in 1980-81. Nixon's practice included installation, collage, photography, and video, and his works are held in major Australian state museum collections and... Read full biography
John Nixon is an Australian artist, born in 1949, who trained at the Preston Institute of Technology and the Melbourne National Gallery School of Art. He represented Australia at Documenta 7 in Kassel, Germany in 1982 and founded the artist-run space Art Projects in Melbourne. He was also the director of the Brisbane Institute of Modern Art in 1980-81. Nixon's practice included installation, collage, photography, and video, and his works are held in major Australian state museum collections and in public collections in several countries. John died in 2020. John Nixon is internationally recognised as a seminal figure in Australian art. For over 50 years, Nixon produced and exhibited abstract and conceptual works that extended the... Read full biography
John Nixon is an Australian artist, born in 1949, who trained at the Preston Institute of Technology and the Melbourne National Gallery School of Art. He represented Australia at Documenta 7 in Kassel, Germany in 1982 and founded the artist-run space Art Projects in Melbourne. He was also the director of the Brisbane Institute of Modern Art in 1980-81. Nixon's practice included installation, collage, photography, and video, and his works are held in major Australian state museum collections and in public collections in several countries. John died in 2020. John Nixon is internationally recognised as a seminal figure in Australian art. For over 50 years, Nixon produced and exhibited abstract and conceptual works that extended the possibilities of radical modernism. Nixon explored the truth of materials and his tools, giving voice to found and pre-used objects. Throughout hi... Read full biography