Nathaniel Mellors creates films that spill into the gallery in the form of animatronic sculptures and installations. He draws his subjects from television culture, providing viewers with immersive environments filled with options for entertainment—based on game shows, sitcoms, nature programs, melodramas, and even snuff films. Mellors blends together the familiar and the absurd to create narratives that unravel over time, incorporating elements of satire and the grotesque. He writes and edits the scripts and music for his episodic absurdist films, finding influences in mainstream entertainment, but also in meditation, UFOs, and artists such as Jean-Luc Godard, Pier Paolo Pasolini, and the avant-garde music and art collective Throbbing Gristle.
Nathaniel Mellors lives and works in Los Angeles (US) and Amsterdam (NL).
2019 | Our House, I.C.A., London, UK. |
2018 | Stigter Van Doesburg, Amsterdam |
2018 | Nathaniel Mellors, New Museum, New York |
2017 | 57th Venice Biennale, Finnish Pavillion with Erkka Nissinen |
2017 | Monitor, Rome |
2017 | The Aalto Natives by Nathaniel Mellors & Erkka Nissinen, Cobra Museum, Amstelveen |
2016 | Prequel Dump, The Box, Los Angeles |
2014 | e Sophisticated Neanderthal Interview, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin, IE |
2014 | NEW_CAVE_ART_NOW, Stigter Van Doesburg, Amsterdam, NL |
2014 | Nathaniel Mellors, Art:Concept, Paris, FR |
2014 | Hammer Projects: Nathaniel Mellors, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, US |
2013 | Nathaniel Mellors & Jimmy Joe Roche, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, US |
2012 | Ourhouse E3 feat, BAD COPY, Salle de bains. Lyon, FR |
2012 | Ourhouse E3 feat, BAD COPY, Matt's Gallery, London, UK |
2012 | Malmo Konsthall, Malmo, SE. |
2012 | Recent Collaborations Before THE SAROPHAGE, Monitor, Rome, IT |
2011 | The Nest, Cobra Museum, Amstelveen, NL. |
2011 | Hypercolon, Smart Project Space Amsterdam, NL. |
2010 | Our House, De Hallen, Haarlem, NL. |
2010 | The 7 Ages of Britain Teaser, Kiasma, Helsinki, FIN. |
2010 | The 7 Ages of Britain Teaser, MONITOR, Rome, IT. |
2009 | Giantbum, Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam, NL. |
2009 | Giantbum, Lombard – Freid Projects, New York, USA. |
2009 | The Time Surgeon, South London Gallery, UK. |
2007 | The Time Surgeon, ArtSway, Sway, Hampshire, UK. |
2006 | Hateball, Alison Jacques Gallery, London, UK. |
2005 | Nathaniel Mellors / Maaike Schoorel, Ibid Projects, Vilnius, LT. |
2005 | Hateball, The Collective, Edinburgh, UK. |
2005 | Brain One / Mózg Jeden, Galeria Potocka, Krakow, PL. |
2005 | The Pink Mist, Playstation, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, NL. |
2004 | Profondo Viola, Matt’s Gallery, London, UK . |
2003 | Prince Lightning – The Long Scratch, Touring: The Changing Room, Stirling, UK |
2003 | Prince Lightning – The Long Scratch, Touring: Turnpike Gallery, Leigh, UK |
2003 | Prince Lightning – The Long Scratch, Touring: The Brewery, Kendal, UK. |
2002 | IBID Projects, London (with Dan Perjovschi), UK. |
2001 | Black Gold, Matt’s Gallery, London, UK. |
2016 | Nothing happens twice: Artists explore the absurdity of life, Harris Museum, Preston |
2014 | Taipei Biennial, TW. |
2014 | How Soon is Now? Manifesta Foundation, Amsterdam, NL |
2014 | Alter-Heroes, MAC USP (Sap Paulo Contemporary Museum), Sao Paulo, BR |
2014 | Magnus - Scènes de l'imaginaire automate, Villa Bernasconi, Geneva, CH |
2014 | Impakt Festival, Utrecht, NL |
2014 | Weberwoche, Stroom, The Hague, NL |
2013 | The Long Leash, The Ister, Brussels, BE |
2012 | Radical Languages, Cricoteka, Krakow, PL |
2011 | Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space, Prague, CZ. |
2011 | ILLUMInations, Venice Biennale, Venice, IT. |
2011 | Un' Espressione Geografica, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudegno, Torino, IT. |
2010 | British Art Show, Hayward Gallery, London & UK touring. |
2009 | Recent Acquisitions, De Hallen, Haarlem, NL. |
2009 | Contour 2009, 4th Biennial of Moving Image, Mechelen, BE. |
2009 | Art & Research 2008, Montehermoso, Vitoria-Gasteiz, ES. |
2009 | The Time Surgeon, ArtSway’s New Forest Pavilion, Venice Biennale, IT. |
2009 | Altermodern, Tate Triennial 2009, Tate Britain, UK. |
2009 | Out of Line, Lombard-Freid Projects, New York, USA. |
2008 | Art Now, Tate Britain (curated by Ryan Gander), UK. |
2008 | Deep Screen-Art in Digital Culture:Proposal for Municipal Acquisition 08,Stedelijk Museum CS, Adm,NL |
2008 | Agrifashionistas, Grizedale Arts / A Foundation, Rochelle School, London, UK. |
2007 | Expect Nothing, Gallery for One, Dublin, IR. |
2007 | Open 2007, Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, NL. |
2007 | 00s THE HISTORY OF A DECADE THAT HAS NOT yet BEEN NAMED, Biennale de Lyon, FR. |
2007 | The Present Order is the Disorder of the Future, De Hallen Haarlem, Nl. |
2007 | Design for Living, Initial Access, Wolverhampton, UK. |
2007 | The Return of the Seven Samurai, Galerie Lucy Mackintosh, Lausanne, CH. |
2007 | Final Exhibition at 4 Clifford Street, Alison Jacques Gallery, London, UK. |
2007 | The Scandinavian Underground...here...now, De Praktijk, Amsterdam, NL. |
2006 | Minotaur Blood, Jonathan Vyner / Fortescue Avenue, London, UK. |
2006 | Tokyo Rambo, Virtually Grizedale, A Foundation, Liverpool Biennial (screening), UK. |
2006 | Sculpture Garden, Phoenix Garden, London, UK. |
2005 | Encore, Byuk Londra Oteli, Istanbul Biennial, TR. |
2005 | If You’re Feeling Sinister Alona Kagan, New York, USA. |
2005 | Offside, Dublin Municipal Gallery The Hugh Lane, Dublin, IR. |
2004 | Romantic Detachment, PS1, New York, USA. |
2004 | Trailer, Man in the Holocene, London, UK. |
2004 | Distribution Fair (with Junior Aspirin Records), Cubitt Gallery, London, UK. |
2004 | No-How, The Collective, Edinburgh, UK. |
2003 | Pod War (The Landscape Critics), Leave The Capitol: Frieze Art, London, UK. |
2003 | Fair Film and Video Programme, London, UK. |
2003 | We’ll Meet You In The Lobby, Buyuk Londra Oteli, Istanbul, TR. |
2003 | Someplace Unreachable, IBID Projects, London, UK. |
2003 | Spiritual Hunger, Daniel Silverstein, New York, USA. |
2003 | Senso Unico. Italia Telecom Future Centre, Venice, IT. |
2003 | Bootleg, Spitalfields Market, London, UK. |
2003 | Roadshow, Touring: Grizedale Arts and Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK. |
2003 | Blennau Festinniog, Wales, Lickey Hills, |
2003 | Birmingham, D.J.C.A.D., Dundee, UK. |
2002 | Lets Roll, Apex Arts, New York, USA. |
2002 | Junior Aspirin Promotional Video, Galerie Diana Stigter, Amsterdam, NL. |
2002 | Band in Crisis, Cooper Gallery, D.J.C.A.D., Dundee (with Skill 7 Stamina 12), UK. |
2002 | It Rocks But Gently, Folly Gallery, Lancaster, UK. |